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Just remind UGAs handlers not to go say hi to bevo, soo close this time around!!! 😊

I agree, I think Texas respects the SEC, more then then SEC fans actually respect how big the Texas Longhorn brand actually is. He was just saying everyone loves to see Texas lose and they'll have that game circled on their calendar, to hopefully kick their ass. Texas is one of the largest brands on the planet, it's not a homer thing, it's a fact. Why do you think the SEC wanted the Horns and Oklahoma? Because they knew those two teams are going to bring SO much more money to the league, as far as eyes go, corporate dollars go and so on. Hey do your thang, we are now attached to the hip and let the the best school win. Texas is always going to be talked about and hopefully SEC fans just realize they just received a team into the league that every sports show will ALWAYS talk about, win lose or draw. It's not saying they are better then anyone without proving it, just facts.

The TX trajectory is peaking as they join the SEC. They have a very good coach & recruiting is repaired from previous regimes.

JD, very well said. Agree 100%. "Biggest Game" is probably what coaches are telling team to get players focused. And in Big12, Texas was everyone's biggest game with maybe one or two exceptions.

Yea I agree. It doesn’t mean it’s the best team, but everyone wants to beat them because “SEC”

Texas as a preseason number 4 ranked team is going to be everybody's biggest game 🤘

The grind is real. Texas will learn.

A college kid answered a leading question, I personally don't take much from it. Similar to what you said, this isn't new for Texas, they were everyone's big game in the big 12 too. Now, that gets amped up if the team is having success but just the logo and brand itself is enough to get the opposing team juiced up.

His point is proving itself with these comments 😂

I think it's funny an otherwise meh comment got the SEC fans all riled up for no reason. Everyone just decided to be insulted. 😂

Alot of insecurity pouring out of the SEC fans, they know they're about to get checked. Last years double digit win in Bama was only the beginning

Texas fans believe OU is beneath them regardless of a football score. 😎😎😎

Living rent free 🤘

I agree with Quinn to an extent! Oklahoma, Miss st, Texas A&M an Oklahoma yes TEXAS IS YOUR BIGGEST GAME Might be Florida's depending on how Florida St looks at the end of the season. So I can agree with Quinn to an extent!

not the biggest game for UT for sure... we'll take GA, Bama, FL, KY, prolly even SC over TX. Bama is taking GA and Auburn, Vandy taking TN, etc etc Also tho, TX will do very well this year, they play the easiest SEC sched by far. TX and OU were BY FAR the best 2 programs in the 12... so sure they will win some games. Also, GA was the best team in the SEC last year

I have really enjoyed watching every Ytuber with 40 followers making videos about this innocuous comment (because they know it will generate more views/clicks than they otherwise get). The fact that the entire SEC is going completely ape-shit over this little comment sort of proves his point. It has nothing to do with TX being the best team or being a declared rival. There is ZERO chance that every team on the TX schedule doesn't have that TX game circled. One of the reasons TX is everyone's biggest game is TX has a HUGE fan base and maybe an equally large or larger hater base. What does that mean? Lots of attention from the media, TV, YTubers etc...everybody wants to beat TX with everyone watching and it doesn't matter if TX is good or bad.

I remember when Sarkisian ate a booger on national TV.

Tuning in from San Antonio, TX. Hook Em!!

He’s not lying

It is true for every school except Georgia, Florida, and Michigan, in which case, Texas is second biggest game. Check the schedules.

This will be the first season Texas has to play a complete season. Welcome to the SEC….the followers not the leaders.

lol 😂 but the Michigan and Oklahoma game ain’t gonna tell us what Texas is only Georgia? What a clown take

Everybody’s biggest games will be against the newcomers. SEC fans have been blowing smoke for 3 years and now it’s time. There’s only 1 SEC coach that has won a SEC championship. The conference is in constant turmoil. Only 2 coaches have more than 5 years at a school. Texas and Oklahoma are going to break a lot of hearts.

Texans (myself included) need to be humble and respectful when talking about Tennessee. Just sayin… The greatest number of men who fought at the Battle of San Jacinto to win Texas independence whose birthplace is known were born in Tennessee, according to the San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association. Leading Texas to victory was Gen. Sam Houston, a Tennessee native. The greatest number known to have died at the Alamo and who fought at the Battle of San Jacinto were born in or from Tennessee.

Same as last year but better teams. They have a target on them so every team has it out for em.

nobody ever sleeps on texas. always has been other teams' biggest game.

There are a couple rivalries that will mean more, but even most of the teams in the SEC are more fired up at the potential to beat Texas than their little rivalry. It's ok. It's kind of like Texas v Texas A&M. You'd think that would be Texas biggest game, but it isn't. It's a true, died in the wool rivalry, but it isn't the biggest game.

I disagree with you. I had the same reaction about mentioning Georgia as a bigger game or rivalry games. I was insulted by the comments because Texas comes in thinking they are the top dawgs. I would say they might be the 3rd to 5th team in the conference. Talk is cheap.

For most teams in the SEC that don’t play Bama or Georgia this season, Texas will be their biggest game. Partly because Quinn Ewers said this. It is like a prophecy coming true because he said it. LOL. I think it’s because a lot of SEC schools are like the little kid who is friends with the big bully and he isn’t afraid in the group but doesn’t want to face the new bully all alone and doesn’t want to admit they are afraid of him.

If they win games they will be. If they don’t, they won’t.

Michigan’s biggest game is Oho St., Georgia’s biggest game is Bama, so to say “Everyone” is a stretch. I’ll give Texas, OU, Arkansas, and A&M but the other schools on their schedule nah; Texas isn’t the biggest game of the year for them.

I think what he’s saying is that EVERYONE hates Texas, and as the preseason #2 favorite to win the conference, everyone on the schedule will get up big time. Even Georgia is only a field goal favorite. That said I understand the point he was trying to make.

We def will be A&M's biggest game lmao..but they wont be ours..🤣

I think its funny that people like to pretend that Texas was everyone's biggest game in the big 12... last year was the first year Texas had been relevant in years... if we are being honest, OU, TCU, and Baylor were often far more important games because they were actually ranked and relevant. Just because everyone really enjoyed beating texas when the opportunity came, that did not make them the most important game.

Nah, they'll learn the hard way. Afterwards they'll learn to keep their mouths shut.

Idk, I just remember the last decade when “Texas is back” every season, only to not “be back”. They’ve had 1 good season (last year) and only 1 10 win season in the last ten years. In actually, T A&M has had better records in the past decade in a tougher conference.

Texas is going to surprise the sec based on some of these comments. True it’s been awhile since Texas was really good. But now they’re back. And, getting better each year. I see them winning a natty before Arch departs.

OU's biggest games are Bama and LSU at the end of the season. 🤣😂

Do your research, JD. Texas holds the all time record over every SEC school except Vanderbilt (8-1-3) and USC (1-0). Texas was in the old southern conference of the beginning of the 20th century with Tennessee and a bunch of other future SEC schools.

But he wasn't wrong.

They will win some and lose some, just like everyone else!

Calling it rn, Texas goes 8-4 at best

lot of SEC crybabies in the chat. Hope Texas humbles a lot of y’all who think your mid tier SEC team can go to another conference and dominate.

lol.. just made bulletin board fodder. Every team Tejas plays will be told all week by their coach to make sure this is Tejas biggest game. Wow what a screw up this far in advance of the season.

Last year was a fluke for sɐxǝ⊥ they are historically an 8-4 team

I completely disagree. People are mad they are bragging because they have been terrible for years in a week conference and after one season think they can just over look it all

Oklahoma defense will eat him ALIVE! Big mistake!

Everybody hates Texas and therefore everyone gets really excited to play them. It’s stupid to think Texas isn’t one of their biggest games on the schedule.

Texas is always Oklahomas biggest game see a few years ago every player on Oklahoma and Texas got unsportsman like conduct 30 minutes before the game meaning Oklahoma vs Texas =hate

You haters are what makes us your biggest game.

Aggies biggest game. Everyone else? Not so much. In absolute NO!

Texas isn’t everyone’s biggest game that’s silly lmao 😂

😂😂😂😂😂

everybody loves humilioty and hates pride. It is why Texas gets their ass kicked and people say theuy play down to the level of their competition. well Guarantee you this Texas everyone will play thier lights out against you. Good luck on low injury count as they will bring the house every week.

Hey Texas fans Georgia isn’t Texas tech I do know they both wear red and black but they sure don’t play the same remember tcu 😉

Duh?

Texas is going to have fun learning you have to get up for more than one or two games when you play in the SEC

Sounds like someone wants Manning to be the starter by getting Ewers hurt, lol!

Yeah, I think the spirit behind the question/comment was that every team will so badly want to beat TX and send a message about what SEC football means. I don’t think the point being made by Ewers or the reporter was that TX views themselves as the biggest dog walking into every match up. The longhorns likely will drop 3-4 games this year, to some mix of Michigan, UGA, OU, A&M, FL, UK. If they lose 3 to ranked opponents, then they still have a shot at the playoff, assuming that other highly ranked SEC teams will each drop a few from beating up on each other. I’d view a season of 3 quality losses as a decent inaugural SEC year for Texas. It’ll be fun to watch!

You can go back 30 years, and I guarantee you that tu rally call is "we're back" Horns down all year long. B O O M E R

There is only one UT and that is in Knoxville. Texas better see each SEC game as their biggest.

Need Kirby and the dawgs to go ahead and drum their horns in their heads back to reality. Roll Tide

I think Texas and Oklahoma are going to be cheering for each other entering the SEC together. It would be huge for both programs to have a great first SEC season.

Hook ‘em! 🤘🤘🤘

There are going to be A LOT of Georgia fans in Austin, TX on October 19

I disagree. They have a pretty soft schedule for an SEC schedule. Let’s be honest, Texas is a lot of hype going into this year. Last year was based off beating Alabama. They lost to OU and had some close games. They couldn’t get it done against Washington after finally winning the Big 12. Sark has yet to put it together but the media is love with them. They’ve always had talent, but they weren’t world beaters last year. They’ll lose 2 games this year, Georgia and either OU or A&M. Depending how A&M looks during the season with an updated offense, and if Wiegman can stay healthy, A&M could be favored. It’ll be fun to see how it plays out.

Tells us we can get a good laugh out of texas and how they will be humbled

Texas was lucky last year, Very lucky, and I live in Texas. K State chocked and , Houston got screwed against U T.

People want to beat Texas just because they're highly ranked and new. Texas finished higher than Georgia last season, same as Alabama. So it's not egotistical to think people would want to beat a highly ranked team. Fans are such snowflakes.

Arkansas biggest game this year will be Oklahoma State on the road!

What has Texas won lately

LOL! 🤣😂🤣😂 🤡

Texas Aint Oklahomas Biggest Game Ever !!! We view Texas in the same light as TCU Baylor Kansas State we beat Texas 17 of the last 23 years !