Early 2026 Texas Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Bud Elliott sits down with Eric Henry of 247Sports to preview Texas’ 2026 season.
-
Texas Team Site: https://247sports.com/college/texas/
-
(00:00) Intro
(1:01) Defense under Will Muschamp
(3:46) Offense in year 2 with Arch Manning
(6:05) Arch Manning recovering from foot injury
(7:11) WR Cam Coleman
(9:28) Running Backs
(10:51) Offensive Line
(12:31) Under-the-radar player on offense
(14:32) Filling loss of Anthony Hill Jr
(15:48) EDGE Colin Simmons
(17:40) Biggest question marks on defense
(18:44) Cornerbacks
(20:02) Schedule breakdown
Cover 3 is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.
Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest in sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos for betting on college football.
Watch Cover 3 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/cover3
Follow our hosts on Twitter: @Chip_Patterson, @TomFornelli, @DannyKanell, @BudElliott3
For more college football coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/
To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore. |
| 0:07.3 | Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready? |
| 0:09.3 | Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command. |
| 0:18.8 | What's going on, y'all, Bud Elliott here. |
| 0:20.5 | This is Summer School on the Cover Tree podcast, and today we got a big one. That's my man, y'all? Bud Elliott here. This is Summer School on the Coverage Free Podcast, and today we got a big one. |
| 0:24.0 | That's my man, Eric Henry of Horns 247. What's going on, dude? Bud, what's going on, man? We go ways back to the floor of the days, man. Always great to catch up with you, my guy. Oh, man. We got nice, actually, we're getting a weirdly, like, nice, not hot April. |
| 0:38.5 | It's like sunny |
| 0:39.4 | no clouds but like 81 yeah in mid april like i i i keep telling myself like it's going to be the |
| 0:45.1 | last nice weekend we get for about 10 weeks and then we get another one so i don't know i don't know |
| 0:50.3 | what's going on there but i am certainly not going to, maybe I just jinx it. |
| 0:54.8 | Next weekend is going to be. |
| 0:55.9 | Exactly. |
| 0:56.5 | We're a sweater. |
| 0:58.2 | Well, we're going to sweat a lot. |
| 1:00.7 | So last year, 10 and 3, you know, really pretty a damn good football team, you know, a couple of critical moments that they, I'm sure, wish they had back, some inconsistencies. |
| 1:10.6 | But, you know, |
| 1:11.5 | the first year of the arch manning experience was fantastic. I want to dig into, we always kind |
| 1:16.8 | of start coaching stuff first here. So Will Mustchamp comes on as DC. You know, offense is pretty much |
| 1:23.6 | unchanged as far as coaching, right? How do you see the defense, like independent of personnel, you know, being called |
| 1:29.3 | differently under MushChamp? You know, it's really interesting, right? Because I took a little bit of heat when the MushChamp, or I guess I should start with the Pekukowski firing was announced. And the same day, the announcement that Will Mushchamp would be hired, right? you know, Will much champion someone who lives in the hearts of Texas fans for all the things he did, you know, two decades ago, right? You know, hitting the whiteboard and all those things. And I'm like, guys, I appreciate what Coach Boone did two decades ago. But Pete Kukowski's been a pretty darn good defensive coordinator or the past five years. Like, are we living in the past? Is it just nostalgia? We had a chance to finally talk with |
| 2:01.9 | Will Mushant for the first time of last week, bud, and I think I got it a little bit more. |
| 2:06.5 | Two things that, and again, we're not going to get into like scheme and personnel, but just two |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 18 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.