{"id":367927,"date":"2026-07-10T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367927\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:06:02","slug":"see-where-steve-sarkisian-mike-elko-rank-among-nations-top-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367927\/","title":{"rendered":"See where Steve Sarkisian, Mike Elko rank among nation&#8217;s top coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two college football powerhouses in Texas appear to be in good hands.<\/p>\n<p>Texas will have to survive an early-season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/article\/espn-college-gameday-texas-ohio-state-2026-22256288.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">non-conference showdown with Ohio State<\/a> and a gauntlet of SEC teams, but with one of the most talented rosters in the country, Sark and the Longhorns could be poised for another deep playoff in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The head coach earned high marks from\u00a0ESPN college football reporter Andrea Adelson, who wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I was hiring one coach to rebuild my program,\u00a0Sarkisian would absolutely be in my top five&#8230; Sarkisian has done a terrific job bringing Texas back into the national championship conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His track record suggests he&#8217;s up for the task, as ESPN college football reporter David Hale wrote:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elko has been the coach who appears poised to finally turn A&amp;M into the behemoth everyone always thought it could be. And that comes after winning as a defensive coordinator at Wake Forest, Notre Dame and A&amp;M\u00a0and then instantly building Duke into a consistent winner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Texas and Texas A&amp;M will open their seasons on September 5, with the Longhorns facing Texas State and the Aggies taking on Missouri State.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two college football powerhouses in Texas appear to be in good hands. Texas will have to survive an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,94936,95969],"class_list":["post-367927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-sports-texas-longhorns","tag-tp-texas-a-m-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}