AUSTIN — Texas announced Thursday that it will not hold a spring football game for the first time in head coach Steve Sarkisian’s four-year Longhorn tenure. Sarkisian made the announcement on a football podcast and cited the wear and tear of two consecutive long seasons as the reason for the cancellation.

College football's annual spring games are decreasing, as Texas became the latest program to ditch or change its scrimmage.

But when it comes to college football, more has evolved in the last few years of college football than the three decades before it. It can be difficult to decipher which of those changes are actually good for players,

Like many college football bastions, Nebraska’s annual spring intrasquad game had evolved into a hallowed custom.