This Week's CardPreview · updates gameday
Texas by a point and a half is a coin flip with a home crowd attached, and the board says the flip lands on one question: whether Ohio State's rebuilt defense is still the unit that held Texas to 7 and 14 points in the last two meetings.
Texas is favored by less than a field goal, so this is close to a coin flip with a home crowd behind it. Ohio State has the better offense; the big question is whether its defense, which lost eight starters to the NFL, is still the one that held Texas to 7 and 14 points the last two times.
26–24
Our call
−1.5
The market
~52%
Implied win prob. (moneyline)
The three tells: Texas's first trip inside the 20 · Jeremiah Smith's
first-quarter yardage · Simmons against the right tackle. Our model leans Ohio
State by two; the call and the model both come back graded Sunday morning.
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Season archive
Week 2 · Ohio State · Scouting report · recap Sunday morning
This week
Week 1 · Texas State · W 59–7 · Recap · Scouting report
Graded
2026 Preseason Report · the season baseline, published Aug 26
2026 Season Card · the one-page season view
Gameday songs and yells
The Eyes of Texas · the school song, sung arm in arm after the game · Longhorn Band · the crowd at DKR · Lyrics
Texas Fight · the fight song, after every touchdown and extra point; the crowd swaps in "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell, go Horns go" · Longhorn Band · Lyrics
March Grandioso · the band's pregame entrance, wall to wall across the field · Longhorn Band · Traditions
The Texas Fight yell · half the stadium yells "Texas," the other half answers "Fight" · plus the Whisper Chant and the old yells, words on the Texas Exes yells page