Former Texas Longhorns star Jamaal Charles was recently asked about what it will take for the 2025 Texas football team to reach the pinnacle of modern college football, the College Football Playoff Championship.
“Every year, everybody wants to win – not just Texas – but everybody want to win a national championship,” Charles said, according to a recent report in Forbes. “Everybody has that expectation. We should just take it one game at a time and let the road go that way.”
“We’re not playing the national
championship in September,” Charles added. “Let’s play the national championship in January. Let’s just get one game at a time to get us there. I think the staff, and then everybody else they would preach the same thing I’m preaching right now.”
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT THE LONGHORNS
247Sports: Steve Sarkisian likes the hunger of this year’s Texas football team
247Sports: Texas QB Arch Manning the betting favorite to be selected as No. 1 pick in 2026 NFL Draft
247Sports: Texas baseball set to face national runner-up Coastal Carolina in the 2026 Astros Foundation College Classic
Inside Texas: Why Texas might finally open the season at No. 1
Inside Texas: The influence of NIL collectives doesn’t appear to be going anywhere
Inside Texas: The Reheat: Does Texas deserve to be preseason No. 1?
ICYMI IN BURNT ORANGE NATION
Steve Sarkisian on in-state recruiting: ‘How do we corral the state better than we have?’
Steve Sarkisian on Texas LB Trey Moore: ‘I think he’s poised for a great season’
Men and women’s track and field earn All-Academic honors and team award
RECRUITING ROUNDUP
247Sports: Texas DB target Davon Benjamin names finalists
Inside Texas: Why doesn’t Texas just make its entire 2026 class out of five-stars?
Inside Texas: From G5 to Power 4: Portal OT success stories Texas could follow in 2026
SEC SHOWDOWN
Austin American-Statesman: SEC Football Preview: Ranking Anthony Hill of Texas, linebackers
Austin American-Statesman: Texas and Texas A&M Recruiting: One key trend impacting both rivals
Dallas Morning News: Texas tops college football’s most valuable programs. See where Oklahoma, others rank?
247Sports: Texas football 2025 early scouting report: Vanderbilt
Good Bull Hunting: Aggies take the stage at SEC Media Days
And The Valley Shook: LSU predicted to finish 4th in SEC
Rocky Top Talk: Tennessee schedules 2027 matchup with Tennessee State
A Sea Of Blue: Braydon Hawthorne drawing high praise from Mark Pope and compared to Kentucky legend
WHAT WE’RE READING
SB Nation: Ryan Day expects ‘fierce’ Ohio State QB competition ahead of Week 1 tilt vs. Texas
SB Nation: Baker Mayfield admits to having a raging erection while running over Vikings player
SB Nation: NBA’s 6 best moves of the offseason, ranked
NEWS ACROSS LONGHORN NATION AND BEYOND
- Welcome, new inductees.
our 2025 Texas Athletics Hall of Honor Inductees #HookEm pic.twitter.com/VmmppcAOyf
— Texas Longhorns (@TexasLonghorns) July 23, 2025
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