Over the last couple of weeks, an old rivalry between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas Tech Red Raiders has been reignited.
Between Steve Sarkisian's unspecified comments about a Big 12 team in Texas to Red Raider head coach Joey McGuire taking it personally and attacking the Horns, things have been anything but drama-free in the Lone Star State.
Now, after the dust had seemingly settled with a Week 1 matchup between the two teams seeming more like a clickbait topic than an actual reality, McGuire is back at it, calling out the Longhorns once again, despite Texas doing nothing to provoke Texas Tech.
"It won’t be Texas because they’re scared," McGuire said when hinting at a blue-blood series in the Red Raiders' future.
Texas Tech Red Raiders can't get the Horns off their minds
McGuire was talking about a home-and-home series with a blue-blood program and, inexplicably, felt a need to bring the Longhorns back into the conversation.
Throughout the interview, which national college football analyst Josh Pate was conducting, McGuire also discussed the fact that the Red Raiders' biggest focus was a return to the College Football Playoff.
Once again, the Texas Tech head coach felt the need to bring Texas up, despite being entirely unprompted by Pate.
"We're working our tail off to get back to the playoffs again. I hope that round one is against the University of Texas," McGuire said on the Red Raiders' goals for the upcoming season.
"We're working our tail off to get back to the playoffs again. I hope that round one is against the University Of Texas"
— Josh Pate (@JoshPateCFB) June 3, 2026
Spoke with Joey McGuire about his response to Sark's recent comments pic.twitter.com/DUulCN3QSN
Sarkisian and the Longhorns have not felt a need to comment on any of McGuire's statements regarding their program, instead letting the Texas Tech head coach spin out on his own accord.
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At the end of the day, when Sarkisian made the comments about a team in the Big 12 that the Horns could beat with their second- or third-string players, he was making a dig at the conference, not at any one team in particular.
"Come out and just say who you’re talking about," McGuire tried to say about Sarkisian's initial comments.
Sark wasn't trying to call out the Red Raiders; he was trying to call out Texas's former conference as the Longhorns continue to put in the work in the SEC.
If you're curious, the last time the Horns and the Red Raiders shared a field, Texas walked away with a resounding 57-7 victory. Since the turn of the century, the Longhorns have gone 18-5 against Texas Tech.
As Sarkisian and the Horns focus on themselves and the upcoming season, Texas fans should simply continue to get a laugh or two at McGuire's unrelenting focus on the Longhorns.
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