Texas president Jay Hartzell, one of the key figures in the Longhorns’ move to the Southeastern Conference, will be the president at SMU, the schools announced Tuesday. SMU’s board of trustees unanimously voted Tuesday to name Hartzell as the successor to R.

University of Texas President Jay Hartzell is leaving his post atop one of the state's most influential public schools and will join Southern Methodist University (SMU) as its next leader. The SMU Board of Trustees unanimously voted to name Hartzell its next president,

Texas is in the middle of a College Football Playoff run, but its president, Jay Hartzell, announced Tuesday he's leaving for SMU.

DALLAS — Texas will play in its second-consecutive College Football Playoff semifinal because its prodigious veteran quarterback made a handful of legacy-defining plays in overtime of the quarterfinals and its usually stout defense didn’t entirely break.

The Texas Longhorns and the Ohio State Buckeyes will face-off at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Friday. Here's a look at the North Texans expected to suit up for his year's Cotton Bowl.

The Texas Longhorns will travel to Dallas this week to take on Ohio State in the College Football Playoff semifinals’ Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, and it seems likely that the weather will suck. Cotton Bowl officials released a statement on weather reports today.