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This week on Texas Eats, join the team as we check out Pinstack’s newest location on the far North Side, just outside of San Antonio at 19238 I-10, San Antonio, TX 78257.
The new entertainment venue offers a range of entertainment options for the whole family including bowling, laser tag, bumper cars, rock climbing, and a high ropes course above a massive game floor.
The game floor hosts a variety of games including brand-new VR experiences, a football machine, basketball, arcades and more. Plus, the venue hosts its own restaurant and bar with an amazing menu including its stacked shakes, a Texas-sized 36-inch KingPin Pizza, wings, and more fun appetizers.
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Right in the heart of downtown San Antonio at the Shops at Rivercenter Mall, we check out a new spot serving southern comfort fare. If you’re feeling hungry and need a pit stop off the Riverwalk, stop by and sample their creamy grits, mac and more.
Now open near Brooks City Base off of Goliad Road, Mexican restaurant La Unica Cocina Mexicana introduces a new concept and new menu with Focaccia Mia serving up classic Italian bites in the evening. You don’t want to miss out on their amazing pizzas.
Over in Wimberley, Texas, Wimberley BBQ is smoking up classic BBQ bites including brisket, sausage made in-house, pork ribs and all the sides.
Finally, recap the first-ever Texas Eats Food Festival — highlighting some of the best local chefs here in San Antonio.
Spotlight: PINSTACK
19238 W IH-10, San Antonio, TX 78257
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Restaurants this week:
Southern Grit To-Go
849 E Commerce St, San Antonio, TX 78205 – Located inside the Rivercenter Food Court
Southern Grit To-Go (KSAT)
Wimberley BBQ
500 River Rd, Wimberley, TX 78676Wimberley BBQ (KSAT)
Focaccia Mia
2622 Goliad Rd, San Antonio, TX 78223Focaccia Mia (KSAT)Texas Eats Food Festival 2024 (KSAT)
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Do the Texas Longhorns still have a shot at the college football playoff? Before the Georgia game, the ESPN FPI playoff bracket predictor gave Texas a 64% chance if they lost to the Bulldogs yet still won its remaining two games. But the manner in which UT lost has seen those odds nose dive.
Saturday night’s 35-10 loss to Georgia in Athens was the worst loss of Texas coach Steve Sarkisian’s tenure in Austin. After the game, Sark and the Longhorns leaders knew they were thoroughly dominated.
“The fourth quarter was, for lack of better terms, a disaster,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said after the game. “We got beat 21-0 in the fourth quarter.”
“It was a disaster,” Texas defensive lineman Colin Simmons said. “We didn’t finish.”
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“They kicked our butts in all three phases,” Taaffe said. “We messed up a lot of stuff.”
“I’m frustrated and disappointed we didn’t play better,” Texas quarterback Arch Manning said. “We just didn’t play well.”
While the Longhorns hung around until the fourth quarter, they were still out played from the beginning. Texas’ offensive line was pushed around all night by a Bulldogs defensive front that has been seen as UGA’s weakness all season.
UT’s defense played well for a long stretch in the middle of the game, but ultimately gave up 35 points and let Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton account for five touchdowns. The ‘Dawgs also ran for 128 yards on the Horns defense. While the defense is ahead of the offense, it has still been picked apart several times this season.
What did the loss do to Texas CFP chances? It crushed them.
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When the computer models put Texas’ chances at 64% last week, it didn’t account for the Longhorns getting humiliated in Athens. But that’s what happened. UT will probably fall several spots, if not completely out, of this week’s the Top 25 rankings as most voters have no doubt completely lost faith Texas.
The computer model currently puts the Longhorns chances at the CFP at 20%. That’s behind the likes of Virginia, BYU and even North Texas. The computers don’t have faith Texas can win its final two games.
What if the Longhorns beat Arkansas and upset the Texas A&M Aggies? The odds aren’t 64% anymore. The ESPN FPI gives Texas a 45% chance to make the CFP if they win out.
Texas would need a lot of help and make a huge impression against the Aggies to have any shot at all. UT would be at the mercy of the CFP committee. The field is very crowded and 9-3 is probably not good enough to get into the bracket.
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The most likely outcome to the Longhorns season will be an appearance in the Gator Bowl or something similar and an offseason filled with frustration and questions about the program’s health as a whole.
Texas A&M completed the largest comeback in program history after storming back from 27 points down to miraculously pull off a 31–30 victory.
But before the celebration, the Aggies dug themselves into that deep hole, and it wasn’t just turnovers and flat-out bad football. One of the biggest reasons Mike Elko’s squad fell behind was the rough afternoon from its starting kicker, Randy Bond.
Bond, a graduate student, missed a 45-yard field goal that would have cut the deficit to 10–6. To make matters worse, he later pushed a freebie 24-yard field goal that kept South Carolina ahead by 17 points. That attempt came immediately after a Dalton Brooks interception that breathed life back into the Aggies. In one kick, that momentum evaporated.
Texas A&M Aggies place kicker Randy Bond reacts after missing a field goal against the Southern California Trojans / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
Bond has been notorious for struggling in the 40 to 49 yard field goal window. Across his four years as a starter, he is 18 for 31 from that distance, a 58 percent clip. Before today, he was 4 for 6 in that range. Make that 4 for 7 after today.
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To put that into perspective, a 58-percent probability is technically “likely,” but it is barely better than a coin toss. Here are a few things more likely to happen than Bond hitting from the 40-49 yard range.
The inconsistency has been there throughout his career. In 2023, he went 26 for 36, including six misses from that infamous 40 to 49 yard range.
He followed that with an impressive bounce-back year in 2024, making 20 of 24 attempts. He went 7 for 9 from the 40 to 49 range, which suggested he may have finally erased that weakness.
But in 2025, the issue has resurfaced, and this time it has spread beyond the long-range kicks. Bond has attempted 15 field goals and has made only 10 of them, a 66.7 percent mark.
At the beginning of the season, Elko announced that Georgia transfer Jared Zirkel would be the starter. Elko even said Zirkel had been “phenomenal” throughout the offseason and won the kicking job “by a wide margin.”
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After Zirkel suffered an injury, Bond reclaimed the starting duties.
Whether it was a confidence hit after losing the job or just a continuation of an old flaw, the struggles have been apparent since his first start of the season against Notre Dame. Bond missed a 52-yard field goal that would have extended the halftime lead to 7. The trend continued against Auburn, where he missed two kicks on back-to-back drives, then another 40-yard attempt against Florida, and now two costly misses against South Carolina that made an already difficult comeback even harder.
But hey, on the bright side, if he hadn’t missed those two, the Aggies wouldn’t have pulled off the biggest comeback in school history.
Texas A&M Aggies kicker Randy Bond (47) kicks the ball during the first half against the Florida Gators at Kyle Field. / Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images
Texas A&M Aggies place kicker Jared Zirkel (99) kicks the ball in the second quarter against the LSU Tigers. The Aggies defeated the Tigers 38-23; at Kyle Field. / Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Jordan Burks scored an efficient 21 points, Carmelo Pacheco added 15 points, and UCF defeated Texas A&M 86-74 on Friday night.
Burks was 7-for-11 from the field, and 5-for-7 from deep. He also grabbed four rebounds and had one block. Pacheco took all of his shots from beyond the arc, connecting on five of his six attempts.
Riley Kugel (12 points), Themus Fulks (11) and John Bol (11) also reached double figures for the Knights (3-1).
The game was tied 30-30 at the half, but the Aggies rushed out to a 14-point lead with 12:15 remaining in regulation. UCF slowly chipped away, tying the game at 65-65 with just under six minutes to go. A 21-9 run the rest of the way completed the comeback.
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Marcus Hill led with 14 points for the Aggies (2-2), and Rashaun Agee added 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds.
The Knights won the first-ever matchup between the two programs last season, 64-61, against then-No. 13 Texas A&M on Nov. 4, 2024.
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