A usual battle that transpires on the recruiting trail in this region of the country is the Texas Football program competing with the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas A&M Aggies. Barring maybe the LSU Tigers, those are the two biggest recruiting rivals for head coach Tom Herman and his staff. But most of the recruiting battles for Texas come down to other rival schools in the Big 12 or the state of Texas. The SEC can jump in there every once in a while, though.
One of the bigger pieces to the quarterback room of the Texas Longhorns football program, to be redshirt sophomore Casey Thompson, apparently almost landed with one of those two recruiting rivals.