Explore Texas Football with Special Guest Roger Wallace

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00:00All right, C2C, Hour 3, we roll on as the Yankee game's about to start up aggressive

00:05in Cleveland. We're going to talk Texas and Georgia football first. We'll go to Austin and

00:11Roger Wallace, the great color analyst on the Longhorn radio team, also a sports anchor at KXAN

00:19TV in Austin, joins us. You can follow him on X at RWallaceKXAN. And you've had that gig for a

00:29while. What a fantastic job. I mean, I've been there. It's a great town. And I've been to that

00:37stadium. It's an incredible setting. If people bucket list stuff, they should go there to watch

00:43the Texas Longhorns play a college football game and then party in Austin afterwards.

00:47You'll never forget it. Roger, how much have you enjoyed that gig as opposed to, you know,

00:54you're on TV every day. But doing the Longhorn games, it's got to be a blast.

01:00Yeah, it's fun, Scott. I started as a sideline reporter in 04, and that's when it all really got

01:06going in the Matt Brown era. They win the Rose Bowl and then they win the national championship

01:11the next year. And then, of course, 08 and 09. 08, they were number one. 09, they lose to Alabama.

01:17Kind of got Nick Saban going there in Tuscaloosa. It's been a little dry the last 10 years,

01:24so this has been a lot of fun. And obviously, this weekend, this is the one they circle. You

01:29know, Scott, it's interesting with Texas's schedule in the Big 12 because you also have

01:33the MOU game in Dallas. So you never have that as a home game. So sometimes the home schedule

01:38is not that appealing. That was certainly one of the things with going to the SEC. You knew

01:42you were going to have these marquee games in Austin. And this is the one everybody circled

01:46as soon as that schedule came out. Oh, by the way, Formula 1 is also in this city. And this

01:51isn't New York City or LA. This is a little smaller to have a game of that magnitude Saturday

01:56and an F1 race on Sunday is pretty amazing in this town. Yeah, that is crazy. I knew that they

02:03were having that Formula 1 race, and I got to tell you, I've been on the road a lot. I'm doing

02:08fights in Vegas and stuff, and they've had it there. I've watched it even in Vegas catching

02:13flights at five in the morning where it's over in Europe and they're racing early in the West

02:19Coast and you're watching these races. That's quite a scene. That Formula 1 is just gigantic.

02:25I never knew how explosively huge it really is. What a operation. The whole thing is crazy.

02:34And it's going to be in Austin this weekend. That town is going to be jumping. What is it like doing

02:39games at the Cotton Bowl? That legendary stadium in Dallas doing the Red River has got to be

02:46badass as well. And you really kick their ass. I mean, they couldn't score. No one can score

02:51against this defense. They allow six points a game. That's crazy. Yeah, it's amazing when you

02:57think of Steve Sarkisian's two and two against OU and his two wins are a combined 83 to three.

03:03That's an anomaly in this series, to say the least. They've usually come down to a series or

03:09two at the end of the ballgame. And then you're right. I mean, Sark's an offensive guy, but

03:13defense has been leading the way. And that was what happened Saturday against OU. The offense

03:17couldn't get kickstarted, but they didn't allow OU to take advantage of short fields and get out to a

03:24big score lead to give up the early field goal. First time they've trailed all year.

03:29But I think the offense will be a little bit smoother on Saturday when you're a second game

03:33back from the injury. And I'm sure Sark's been thinking about this game for a while against his

03:38buddy Kirby Smart. Yeah, no doubt, Rog. I gotta ask you, the one thing I noticed about him is how

03:46tough they are. They've turned the ball over in their own end several times this year. And I've

03:54watched their games. And every time they have a mistake, that defense comes on the field and

04:01stops whoever gets the ball. It doesn't matter where it is. That's the difference between

04:08championship teams and just conference champion teams, like teams that can win a conference title.

04:15That's one thing. But when you get to a level like they're playing defensively and they stop

04:20everybody every time they get anywhere near the red zone or near their end of the field,

04:25that's the difference between, you know, real championship teams. Yeah, I mean, think about OU,

04:33their deepest penetration other than the last drive of the game was a 42-yard field goal. So

04:39they got to the 25-yard line. So you're right. You know, Sark was asked about that. And all he

04:44could harp on is the fact that they are turning the ball over more than he would like. So, you

04:49know, coaches always look at the negative, not necessarily the positive. So for him, it's more

04:54about we can't afford to keep doing this. And let's be honest, they have not seen an offense

04:59like Georgia. They went to Michigan. They're still unsettled at quarterback. They get Mississippi

05:05State here. They just made a quarterback switch. They get Oklahoma. They had just made a quarterback

05:10switch. So this is going to be from one end of the spectrum to the other for the guy like Carson

05:16Beck on Saturday compared to some really young guys and not great throwers. Yeah, he's a great

05:23quarterback. I got to ask you one last question. We all know what he can do, but

05:30Texas has owned this football team. No one has beaten Georgia more than Texas.

05:36I know five games isn't a sample, but when you win four of them, it is.

05:42You know, they beat him in that shoot-a-ball at 18. And, you know, a lot of times around here,

05:47Scott Good turns into what just happened. And that was one of those moments because

05:53Texas beats Georgia. And Sam Ellinger gave the old rear back on the podium after they won it.

05:59And everybody latched on to that and kind of beat up Texas and Ellinger for that statement.

06:05They haven't won 10 since. That was their first 10-win season since 09. So I think Sarks did a

06:11nice job of making sure this team stays, you know, right down the middle, enjoy the win, but move on

06:17and Saturday will be this ultimate test. And then they're going to Vanderbilt next week,

06:22and we know what that program has turned into this year. So really the gauntlet is starting

06:27now for this Texas team. We'll know a lot more about them in a couple of weeks.

06:30Yeah. 7.30 on ABC primetime on Saturday at Memorial. It's going to be awesome. Then that

06:37game in Smashville, that's going to be tough. I think it's great. I can't wait to see what they

06:42do the rest of the way and in the playoff. And then frankly, I'm excited to watch Arch. I loved

06:47watching him play when he got his burn. He was phenomenal. I think next year he's going to light

06:53it up and Texas is just going to keep playing, I think, in big playoff games and possibly national

07:00championship games. Rod, you got the best gigs. TV, doing radio with the horns down in Austin.

07:06You got all them pretty girls down there. You got it all in Texas, baby. It's great having you on

07:11Coast to Coast. We'll get you back on again. Have a blast doing the Georgia game on Saturday night.

07:16Thanks for coming on Sports Grid. Thanks, Scott. Going to a high school game right now. We've got

07:21every level covered. Those kids cheat down in Texas playing high school football. I'm just

07:25kidding. Anyway, Rod, thanks for coming on.

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