What a way to start your Saturday. Hours before the Longhorns even took the field to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs, an NFL insider from The Athletic reported that Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian was interested in a coaching job at the NFL level.
Immediately, Texas fans flew to social media to see what was being said and where exactly their head coach was planning to go.
As the rumors, conspiracies, and theories continued to spread across the world of college football, Sarkisian was silent, as was Texas Athletic Director Chris Del Conte.
In the middle of it all, one Texas insider shared that the narrative of Sarkisian leaving the Horns for higher ground was far from the truth.
"Internal source regarding Sark’s dalliance with the NFL as reported by The Athletic. 'There’s ZERO [all caps] truth to that,'" Bobby Burton, from On Texas Football, wrote on social media.
In his story that he posted later, Burton said that yet another insider told him that Sarkisian's agent could simply be spreading that rumor in order to line the Texas head coach up for yet another extension, or even a raise.
Internal source regarding Sark’s dalliance with the NFL as reported by The Athletic.
— Bobby Burton (@BobbyBurtonOTF) October 25, 2025
“There’s ZERO [all caps] truth to that.”
We’ll wait to hear Sark comments in post game while doing additional digging.
While it might be comforting that Sarkisian simply wants a little more cash in his pockets, it doesn't necessarily make sense.
Over the five years that Sarkisian has been the Longhorns' head coach, he has already received two contract extensions. He is also one of the highest-paid coaches in all of college football, earning over $10 million per year with a $64 million buyout if Texas decided to go in another direction (instead of vice versa).
At the end of the day, nobody knows Sarkisian's next move other than Sarkisian (and maybe his wife and newborn child), so people will just have to wait and see what the Texas head coach has planned.
In the meantime, distractions (hopefully) aside, No. 22 Texas was getting ready to face Mississippi State in yet another road test. The Longhorns and the Bulldogs were scheduled to kick off at 3:15 p.m. CT on the SEC Network.