Photo Credit: UTRGV Athletics Sometimes the team answers you. Not at a press conference. Not by explaining what went wrong. Not by telling everybody outside the building that everything is fine. Sometimes they just show you. That’s what UTRGV did Saturday night. After Nicholls, there were real questions. The offensive line. The run game. The running back rotation. Pressure that wasn’t always getting finished. A quarterback getting loose and turning broken plays into first dow

Tony Diaz gave Iowa State 95 yards worth of reasons to remember it. Jimmy Rogers called him Nate during the week. 95 yards later, we’re pretty sure he knows Tony now. Eight catches. 95 yards. Twelve targets. And one 56-yard shot that changed the temperature in Iowa’s 16-13 win over Iowa State. Iowa was down 10-0. The Cyclones were making the run game work for everything. Iowa needed something. No. 14 gave them something. Kirk Ferentz came back to that play again Tuesday. “Tha

Mission Veterans 35, Los Fresnos 31 First it was the wounded dog. Then, after Thursday night’s win, David Gilpin told CBS 4/NBC 23’s Megan Murray, “We’re punching up now.” I’m not sure that fits anymore. I think they’re just punching. Mission Vets took the 56-14 loss to PSJA North, answered by beating Weslaco, then handed Los Fresnos its first loss while scoring a season-high 35. Four games in, the perception after PSJA North doesn’t match this team anymore. Los Fresnos made

Before McNeese ever played a game this season, Matt Viator said something that hits a little different now: “We look much more like a football team is supposed to look.” Three games in? Yeah. You can see what he meant. McNeese is 1-2, but if you’re just staring at the record, you’re not really watching the football. The Cowboys just dropped 495 yards on No. 4 Tarleton and pushed that thing all the way to a 24-yard field goal as time expired. They can run it. They can throw it

Photo Credit: RGVSports.com Three weeks in, we’ve seen enough to stop talking in hypotheticals. No more preseason talk about what somebody might be. Los Fresnos is 3-0. Mission Vets is 2-1. The Falcons have already won a shootout, survived a fourth-quarter fight and then dropped 54. The Patriots got caught in a bad night against PSJA North, then went to Weslaco and answered with a 26-24 win. That’s where this gets good. Everybody has some numbers now. Thursday is about findin

Photo Credit: UTRGV Athletics The score is old news. The words aren’t. We already did the recap. We know UTRGV lost 31-28. We know about the comeback. We know about the penalties, turnovers and quarterback debate. Monday Receipts ain’t here to run Saturday back. This is where DITV grabs what Travis Bush said before kickoff, what he said after the smoke cleared, and puts those words next to what actually showed up on the field. Not to catch Coach slipping. Not to act like we’r

Tracking Valley players carrying the 956 into college football. Somebody in the Valley remembers these kids before the offers, before the college graphics and before signing day. They remember the little kid at the barbecue with a football in his hands, the rides to practice, the summer heat, the Friday nights and the work it took to get there. Now those same kids are in college football programs all over the country. That’s what DITV wants to celebrate — not just where they

Diaz had national media talking. Smith Flores earned the start. Noland got into the rotation. DITV checks what all three former Vaqueros did in Week 1 — and what we’re watching today. Tony Diaz. Ismael Smith Flores. Xayvion Noland. Different schools. Different roles. Same roots. DITV is keeping tabs on all three. Every week, we’re checking the numbers, game reports and coverage to see what these former Vaqueros are actually doing at the FBS level. Not just whether they played

Corey Holmes leads UTRGV in receiving. Broderick Taylor is averaging more than 12 yards a carry. Aidan Jakobsohn is taking snaps at quarterback. Jaydon Smith is stretching the field, and Christian Sabsook is in the rotation. None of them came from Houston, Dallas or San Antonio. They came down Highway 77. That’s why Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend shouldn’t feel like just another recruiting stop for UTRGV anymore. The 361 should start feeling like part of the backyard. UT

Raymondville can score. Port Isabel can make a football game uncomfortable. That feels like a better place to start than staring at 2-0 versus 1-1. The Bearkats have dropped 46 on Harlingen South and 63 on St. Joseph Academy. Jeffrey LeFevre has been dangerous with his arm and legs. Anthony Gonzales can hurt you outside. Cejay Orozco and Omar Garcia give Raymondville multiple ways to run it. Port Isabel has receipts too. Logan Bennett already has three interceptions. Michael

Join us every Wednesday and Sunday night at 8pm to discuss 956 sports. “This decision needs to come Monday.” That was our take Sunday night on DITV. And we weren’t talking to an empty room. At one point, 180 people were watching live at the same time, with the chat moving while we argued quarterback, running backs, the defense, Corey Holmes and what changes now that Southland play is here. That’s exactly what we want DITV to become. The Valley’s only live sports talk show on

UTSA 45, UTRGV 16 Let’s start where everybody is going to start: 45-16 is 45-16. UTSA won the football game, and UTSA was the better team Saturday. We don’t need to dress that up, turn it into a moral victory or pretend the scoreboard doesn’t matter. But if you watched all four quarters instead of checking the final score and moving on, there was a lot more happening underneath it. UTRGV finished with 422 yards, 22 first downs, ran 81 offensive plays and held the football for

UTRGV Football is only one season old, but some of the talent that helped build Year One is already showing up on some pretty big FBS stages. Tony Diaz. Ismael Smith Flores. Xavyion Noland. Three of UTRGV’s biggest offensive weapons from 2025 transferred up this offseason, and all three begin their new chapters Saturday. Together, they combined for 125 receptions, 1,950 receiving yards and 24 touchdowns last season. Diaz led UTRGV with 68 catches, 875 yards and 11 scores. Nol

Photo Credit to Archetypeathletic and Drayden 1505 Instagram PSJA North 56, Mission Vets 14 We pulled up Thursday night with five questions. PSJA North basically grabbed the mic. 35-0 at the half. More than 500 yards of offense. 56 on the board. This wasn’t one of those games where you needed a couple days to figure out what you watched. PSJA North put it right in front of everybody. 1. CAN MISSION VETS KEEP PSJA NORTH FROM OWNING THE GAME ON THE GROUND? This was the smoke be

By Diamond DITV956 | Fan Perspective For two quarters Thursday night, Mercedes kept showing flashes of an offense that looked ready to break through. The Tigers just couldn’t finish anything. There was a missed opportunity with a receiver running open over the middle. There was an approximately 80-yard completion that completely flipped the field, only for Mercedes to eventually come away empty after being stopped on fourth down inside the PSJA 10. At halftime, all those flas

Photo Credit: UTRGV Athletics Two quarterbacks dealt. The receivers got loose. The defense gave up 13 rushing yards. And The Vack reminded everybody that football in the 956 is getting real. We spent part of the week talking about the gap. Division II to FCS. How big is it really? Could a really good DII team hang around with an FCS team into the fourth quarter? UTRGV gave its answer Saturday night. Not here. Not tonight. The Vaqueros didn’t just beat UT Permian Basin 44-0 in

Thursday gave us the appetizer. Friday pulled up with the whole kitchen. Raymondville survived overtime. Hassan Woolery went crazy. Rio Hondo hung 56. McAllen Memorial answered with 55. Los Fresnos almost let a blowout slip. PSJA North ran for 425 yards like somebody forgot to tell them passing was allowed. Week 1 came in loud. Here’s what actually mattered. RAYMONDVILLE GOT THE GAME OF THE NIGHT Raymondville 46, Harlingen South 45 — OT A 3A Division I team lined up with a bi

Photo Credit: UTRGV Athletics Carter Hewitt’s UTRGV story started with an open tryout. Two years later, the question is a lot different. Can Carter Hewitt play his way into a starting role? No starting job has been won. But for a player who has already gone from trying to make the roster to finding a role on Saturdays, it’s a fair question to ask. UTRGV Athletics confirms Hewitt made the team through an open tryout during the Vaqueros’ 2024 practice season. His parents, Carli

Photo credit: UTRGV Athletics and Texas A&M Athletics Before Brian Gamble became the man designing one of the better defenses in the FCS, he was a small-school quarterback in East Texas trying to prove he could play at the next level. That part of his story is easy to miss now. Gamble played quarterback at Alto High School before arriving at Texas A&M and moving to linebacker. He has said the football he learned growing up gave him an advantage when he reached college, partic

Photo Graphic created by DITV956 intern Jayden Longoria The quarterback battle is going to get the attention. That is understandable. Who takes the first snap for UTRGV will be one of the biggest questions surrounding this team until we have an answer. But two weeks into camp, the more I look at what is happening around that competition, the more interested I am in the other roles starting to take shape. RGVSports’ Week 2 camp report gave fans some valuable details to work wi