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Texas A&M Football 2024 Depth Chart Prediction: Offense
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The Texas A&M Aggies are only a week away from beginning the on-field portion of the Mike Elko era, one that the 12th Man is hoping will end in some form of hardware coming back to College Station.
The Aggies got a touch of confidence boost earlier the past week, being ranked No. 20 in both the AP Poll and also the Coaches Poll.
The Aggies lost many players in the draft this year, but the spots have been filled accordingly and the Aggie offense is still ready to produce, especially now that redshirted quarterback Conner Weigman is back on the team. Weigman was enjoying a Heisman-esque season in 2023 before a lower-body injury against Auburn in week four brought his season to a screeching halt.
So, who exactly will line up with Weigman in one week when the Aggies open up the season in prime time against Notre Dame?
Here is how Texas A&M Aggies on SI believes Mike Elko and Collin Klein’s offense will shape up Saturday night:
Quarterback
1. Conner Weigman
2. Marcel Reed
3. Jaylen Henderson
It should come as a surprise to nobody that Conner Weigman will be leading the charge against the Fighting Irish. The Aggies will hope he can stay healthy at least until the season closer versus Texas and avoid the quarterback room becoming an emergency room like it was last year. Marcel Reed put on an impressive performance in the Texas Bowl against Oklahoma State after Jaylen Henderson was injured on the first offensive play of the game for the Ags. Granted, with all of this, the Aggies finished with a winning record still, and they will look to improve on their 4-4 SEC record from last year.
Running Back
1. Le’Veon Moss
2. Amari Daniels
3. E.J. Smith
Rueben Owens was all set for his sophomore season in Maroon and White before a lower leg injury a couple weeks ago ended his season prematurely. Moss and Daniels, however, were quite the tandem out of the Aggie backfield last season, combining for 1,016 yards and nine rushing scores. E.J. Smith, a redshirted transfer from Stanford and son of Hall of Fame halfback Emmitt Smith, is sure to see some carries as well in Owens’ absence. The Aggies should be set in the running game this season.
Wide Receiver
WR – X
1. Jahdae Walker
2. Terry Bussey
3. Jacob Bostick
WR – Slot
1. Moose Muhammad III
2. Micah Tease
3. Ernest Campbell
WR – Z
1. Noah Thomas
2. Cyrus Allen
3. Izaiah Williams
Even with Evan Stewart transferring to Oregon and Ainias Smith finding his professional home with the Philadelphia Eagles, the Aggie receiving corps is filled with experience and talent. Walker led the returning receivers with 590 receiving yards, and Thomas had five receiving scores, which was the most on the team of anybody. Terry Bussey has the potential to play a role for Texas A&M that Travis Hunter does for the Colorado Buffaloes. Moose Muhammad, son of former Panthers WR Muhsin Muhammad, has route running and open field play that is unmatchable. Surely, we all remember his astonishing one-handed grab and subsequent hurdle against Abilene Christian. It was a sight to see then, and don’t be surprised if Moose breaks it out again this season.
Tight End
1. Tre Watson
2. Donovan Green
3. Shane Calhoun
The Aggies added a player with some championship game experience this past offseason in tight end Tre Watson, who was with the Washington Huskies in their runner-up performance to the Michigan Wolverines in this year’s national championship game. Watson has gone on record saying, “It didn’t feel good being on the losing side of it,” so he is sure to go through this season with fire in his eyes. Donovan Green makes his return to the team after missing all of last year with a torn ACL and transfer Shane Calhoun further adds to the depth of trustworthy tight ends.
Offensive Line
Left Tackle
1. Trey Zuhn III
2. Dametrious Crownover
3. Blake Ivy
Left Guard
1. Chase Bisontis
2. Aki Ogunbiyi
3. Ashton Funk
Center
1. Kolinu’u Faaiu
2. TJ Shanahan
Right Guard
1. Mark Nabou Jr.
2. Kam Dewberry
3. Isendre Ahfua
Right Tackle
1. Ar’maj Reed-Adams
2. Reuben Fatheree II
3. Hunter Erb
Conner Weigman’s protection even has some impressive depth, with A&M veterans such as Trey Zuhn III, Mark Nabou Jr., and the newly appointed “12th Man” Ar’maj Reed-Adams. The protection last year allowed the Aggie backfield to average 136.2 rushing yards per game, so expect that and even more with the depth at both the line and the backs.
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Texas vs. Florida for 2024 Little League World Series U.S. title: Live stream, time, channel
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Texas and Florida go head to head for the United States Championship Saturday afternoon at the 2024 Little League World Series. The game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET with TV coverage on ABC.
- Watch: Live streams of Texas vs. Florida in the 2024 Little League World Series United States Championship game are available with offers from FuboTV (free trial), SlingTV (low intro rate) and DirecTV Stream (free trial).
Texas vs. Florida
Little League World Series 2024
United States Championship
When: Saturday, Aug. 24 at 3:30 p.m. ET
Where: Lamade Stadium, Williamsport, Pa.
TV channel: ABC
Live streams: FuboTV (free trial) | SlingTV (low intro rate) | DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Texas and Florida have left little question that they are the two top U.S. teams standing at the 2024 Little League World Series. The team from Boerne, Texas, has represented the Southwest Region well with an unbeaten run to the U.S. championship game that featured wins over Pennsylvania (9-0), Florida (4-1) and Nevada (5-2). The Florida team bounced back from its loss to Texas with three straight consolation wins over Staten Island (6-1), Hawaii (4-3) and Nevada (6-3) to get a high-stakes rematch with Texas.
The teams are set for a 3:30 p.m. ET start on ABC. Live streams are available from FuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and SlingTV (low intro rate).
Here’s the full 2024 Little League World Series schedule with times, TV channels and matchups (where known). The tournament runs through Sunday’s World Championship Game between the United States and International champions.
2024 LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES
SCHEDULE & RESULTS
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14
Game 1: Mexico 2, Aruba 0
Game 2: Hawaii 3, New Hampshire 1
Game 3: Taiwan 8, Canada 0
Game 4: Florida 2, South Dakota 1
THURSDAY, AUG. 15
Game 5: Japan 11, Puerto Rico 0
Game 6: Nevada 9, New York 1
Game 7: Cuba 4, Czechia 1
Game 8: Texas 9, Pennsylvania 0
FRIDAY, AUG. 16
Game 9: Venezuela 10, Mexico 0
Game 10: Hawaii 5, Illinois 0
Game 11: Taiwan 11, Australia 0
Game 12: Florida 6, Washington 1
SATURDAY, AUG. 17
Game 13: Canada 12, Puerto Rico 5
Game 14: Staten Island (NY) 6, South Dakota 3
Game 15: Aruba 8, Czechia 3
Game 16: Pennsylvania 5, New Hampshire 0
SUNDAY, AUG. 18
Game 17: Staten Island (NY) 4, Illinois 0
Game 18: Mexico 8, Canada 0
Game 19: Pennsylvania 12, Washington 2
Game 20: Aruba 3 Australia 0
MONDAY, AUG. 19
Game 21: Japan 2, Venezuela 1
Game 22: Nevada 3, Hawaii 2
Game 23: Taiwan 10, Cuba 2
Game 24: Texas 4, Florida 1
TUESDAY, AUG. 20
Game 25: Venezuela 2, Aruba 1
Game 26: Hawaii 3, Pennsylvania 1
Game 27: Mexico 6, Cuba 4
Game 28: Florida 6, Staten Island 1
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21
Game 29: Taiwan 3, Japan 1
Game 30: Texas 5, Nevada 2
Game 31: Venezuela 11, Mexico 3
Game 32: Florida 4, Hawaii 3
THURSDAY, AUG. 22
Game 33: Venezuela 3, Japan 2
Game 34: Florida 6, Nevada 3
SATURDAY, AUG. 24
Both championship games will air on ABC
Live streams: FuboTV (free trial) | SlingTV (low intro rate) | DirecTV Stream (free trial)
12:30 p.m.: International Championship, Taiwan vs. Venezuela
3:30 p.m.: U.S. Championship, Florida vs. Texas
SUNDAY, AUG. 25
Live streams: FuboTV (free trial) | SlingTV (low intro rate) | DirecTV Stream (free trial)
10 a.m: Consolation Game on ESPN2
3 p.m.: World Series Championship on ABC
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VIDEO: Texas machete-wielding man's intrusion into home thwarted by gun owner
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A concerned homeowner in Texas took up arms and fended off a machete-wielding man who attempted to enter his home.
Darryl Stevens’ home surveillance camera captured the moment a machete-wielding intruder approached the family’s Liberty Hill home just north of Austin.
“At that moment, I obviously freaked out. I have two young children here in the house and just went into complete fight or flight mode,” Stevens told FOX 7.
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Darryl Stevens defended his family when a man with a machete attempted to enter his home. (FOX 7)
Stevens’ gut reaction was to lock up his home and grab his 9mm handgun.
“I started running through the house. I locked every door as fast as possible, ran upstairs. Luckily, I had a firearm here, so I grabbed my 9mm, unlocked it, ran down as fast as possible,” Stevens said.
The suspect, later identified as 43-year-old Jerry Escamilla, managed to climb a fence and get to the upper deck of the family’s home.
He was greeted by Stevens’ handgun when he arrived.
“Told him he’s got to leave, or he’s going to lose his life, you know?” he said. “Luckily, after I did that, he dropped the machete.”
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A Liberty Hill, Texas, homeowner captured on video a man’s attempt to break into his home with a machete. (FOX 7 via Darryl Stevens)
The video showed Escamilla retracing his steps and climbing back down as a gun is seen pointing at the intruder.
Stevens’ wife called 911 and local police arrested Escamilla. The 43-year-old was charged with criminal trespassing and failure to identify and is being held on a $10,000 bond.
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Stevens explained to the local outlet that they had recently moved farther away from Austin to “feel safe.”
“I just had to protect my family, and that’s what I did. Luckily, I didn’t have to discharge my firearm,” Stevens said. “It’s just not something you expect to happen in Liberty Hill in the country or way out in the country in the very back of this new, nice neighborhood… we moved out here, we moved further out of the city to feel safe.”
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Jerry Escamilla was charged with criminal trespassing and failure to identify and is being held on a $10,000 bond. (FOX 7)
Stevens said that he plans on upping the security at their home, saying that they will turn their home into “Fort Knox.”
“We feel violated, as a family, we feel like our sense of safety in our safe place, which is our house, has been taken from us. I almost get a little emotional even saying that. It’s not fair,” he said. “We’re definitely upping security. We’re getting a few more firearms to have one upstairs, one downstairs. We are going to be installing more fences and more security features. Floodlights. I’m going to turn this place into Fort Knox at this point in time.“
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Texas’s Stand Your Ground law established the right for gun owners to apply lethal force to defend themselves against threats, regardless of whether it was possible to retreat first. The law notes that the shooter cannot instigate the altercation.
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Texas will send inspectors to monitor 2024 elections in Harris County
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The Secretary of State’s Office will again assign state inspectors to observe the handling and counting of ballots and monitor election records in Harris County, the state agency said while releasing a new audit outlining problems with the county’s elections in 2021 and 2022.
The audit, released late Friday, found that in those years, Harris County election officials did not follow state-mandated rules related to voter registration list maintenance; failed to adequately train election workers, which led to problems at the polls; and violated the law when it failed to estimate and issue the required ballot paper at some polling locations.
Harris County failed to adequately train election workers on how to properly set up and operate the voting system, the audit found, which “may have impacted the high percentage of equipment malfunctions” in the November 2021 constitutional amendment election. The county then did not adequately address these training issues prior to the March 2022 primary, the state said.
Former Harris County Elections Administrator Clifford Tatum did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the audit’s findings. Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth, who took over running elections last September after state lawmakers passed a law eliminating the election administrator position in the state’s most populous county, said in a statement that her office “will continue to ensure that the concerns that plagued the now-defunct Elections Administrator’s Office are not revisited.”
In the audit report, the Secretary of State’s Office said current Harris County election officials, who didn’t oversee the elections included in the audit, have worked to address the problems and correct the county’s procedures.
Other counties audited for the 2021-22 election cycle included Cameron, Eastland and Guadalupe. The report says election officials in those counties have improved recordkeeping, chain of custody procedures and election worker training.
The House Elections Committee is set to discuss the audit’s findings and the management of voter registration data in the state on Monday.
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Last fall, a preliminary report of an audit specifically about Harris County’s November 2022 election found the county had different numbers of registered voters than the state, and different numbers of absentee ballots sent out, though it didn’t detail the causes of the discrepancies or suggest they influenced the election outcome. That report also said the county failed to adequately train election workers and failed to supply some polling locations with enough ballot paper.
The final audit released Friday echoed the findings in the earlier report.
Audits began after the 2020 presidential election
The state began auditing counties after the 2020 presidential election, in response to baseless claims of voter fraud. The audits aim to examine counties’ election procedures and evaluate whether election laws are being properly followed.
Harris County is dominated by Democrats and often the focus of election conspiracy theories. It’s been audited twice so far. The first time was in 2021, when the Secretary of State’s Office ordered a “full forensic audit” of the state’s two largest Democratic counties — Harris and Dallas — and the two largest Republican counties — Collin and Tarrant. That same year, lawmakers passed a sweeping overhaul of voting laws that included a provision requiring the Texas secretary of state to conduct an audit of four randomly selected counties’ elections.
In 2022, officials with the agency drew four county names out of a bucket — and Harris came up again.
Although the audit has found no evidence of widespread fraud in any of the counties reviewed, auditors have twice flagged problems in Harris. The audit report covering the 2020 election said the county had improper chain of custody procedures at some of its polling locations, and discrepancies in electronic poll book data.
Last week, during an annual training of election officials from across the state, Secretary of State Jane Nelson conducted the drawing of the four counties to be audited for the 2023-24 election cycle: Brazoria, Bell, Val Verde and Real.
No evidence of fraud, but other problems with elections surface
As for Harris, the heavily Democratic county’s handling of elections has made it a target for years. The problems with the 2022 election prompted Texas Republican lawmakers to pass a law that abolished the elections administrator position in Harris County. The county challenged the law in court, and lost. Last fall, election administration duties were transferred to the county clerk, and voter registration duties are now the responsibility of the tax assessor-collector’s office.
Those problems also prompted 21 losing Republican candidates to go to court seeking a redo of the November election. A judge did order a new election in response to a challenge of a single judicial race. He found that more than 1,000 votes in Harris should not have been counted because, in most cases, there were deficiencies with two types of forms that some voters have to fill out at the polls.
Three candidates dropped their lawsuits, and a judge, dismissing the remaining challenges, said that, although the county did make errors, there was not enough evidence to order a new election.
Last week, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said an investigation by the Texas Rangers found no evidence of fraud in the November 2022 election. One former county elections department employee now faces charges for theft and tampering with government documents. Ogg said investigators found the employee, whose responsibility at the elections department was distributing supplies, improperly worked two full-time jobs during the election.
‘Put a process in place’
Hudspeth has presided over multiple county-wide and municipal elections, including a primary and a runoff election, since taking over last September. Although a storm left at least a dozen locations without power during the primary runoff election in May, voting wasn’t disrupted.
Speaking on a panel at the annual training for election officials hosted by the Secretary of State’s Office in Austin earlier this month, Hudspeth said her office has created a compliance team made up of roughly four people familiar with every step of the election process and responsible for properly documenting it. After each election, that team also digitizes election records and labels them to be used for auditing purposes or during election challenges, if necessary.
“It makes it easier for us to identify when the audit comes, what we need to pull together,” Hudspeth told hundreds of Texas election officials who gathered at the event. “Not every audit is exactly the same. It doesn’t always look the same. It isn’t always the same exact information, but what we have learned over time, is to put a process in place.”
Natalia Contreras covers election administration and voting access for Votebeat in partnership with The Texas Tribune. Contact Natalia at ncontreras@votebeat.org
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