text: SEC's Texas slant
  The Houston Chronicle's David Barron takes a look at recruiting patterns for Southeastern Conference schools since 1992, when the league expanded to 12 teams. Numbers do not include junior-college players or other transfers.
  Texans signed: 15
  Current Texans: 4
  Roster breakdown: 106 total, 39 from Alabama, 36 from other SEC states.
  Texans on two-deep: (2) DL Damion Square, Houston Yates; WR DeAndrew White, Galena Park North Shore.
  Top Texans: QB Greg McElroy, Southlake Carroll (led Tide to 2009 BCS national championship); LB Eryk Anders, Smithson Valley (forced critical fumble in Tide's title victory against Texas); C J.B. Closner, Clark (three-year starter).
  Notes: Nick Saban has signed six players from Texas since 2007.
  Texans signed: 114
  Current Texans: 22
  Roster breakdown: 126 total, 48 from Arknsas, 26 from other SEC states.
  Texans on two-deep: (9) WR Cobi Hamilton, Texarkana; LB Bret Harris, Irving MacArthur; LB Alonzo Highsmith, Fort Bend Elkins; DB Isaac Madison, Dallas Carter; TE Colton Miles-Nash, Sulphur Springs; DB Tevin Mitchel, Mansfield Legacy; LB Ross Rasner, Waco Reicher; C Travis Swanson, Kingwood; DB Tramain Thomas, Winnie East Chambers.
  Top Texans: QB Ryan Mallett, Texarkana (2010 second-team all-SEC, now with the Patriots); OL Robert Felton, Houston Cypress Creek (2007 all-SEC, Arkansas all-decade team); OL Tony Ugoh, Spring Westfield (2006 all-SEC, Arkansas all-decade team).
  Texans signed: 4
  Current Texans: 2
  Roster breakdown: 103 total, 52 from Alabama, 42 from other SEC states,
  Texans on two-deep: (2) WR Emory Blake, Austin High; DE Nosa Eguae, Mansfield Summit.
  Top Texans: Blake and Eguae began the season as starters for the defending national champions.
  Notes: Gene Chizik, who spent a year as defensive coordinator at Texas, has four Texans on his coaching staff — former Baylor DB Trooper Taylor, former Rice and Texas A&M assistant Jeff Grimes, former Stephen F. Austin RB Curtis Luper and former Texas OL Jay Boulware.
  Texans signed: 11
  Current Texans: 1
  Roster breakdown: 107 total, 77 from Florida, eight from other SEC states.
  Texans on two-deep: (1) WR Omarius Hines, Corsicana.
  Top Texan: DL Jarvis Moss, Denton Ryan (2006 All-America by Pro Football Weekly, first-round draft pick in 2007).
  Notes: Florida trails only Texas in the number of FBS recruit signings each year, but exports more players to out-of-state schools than does Texas.
  Texans signed: 9
  Roster breakdown: 123 total, 97 from Georgia, 21 from other SEC states.
  Texans on two-deep: None
  Top Texan: QB Matthew Stafford, Highland Park (second-team all-SEC in 2008, top pick in 2008 NFL Draft by Lions).
  Notes: Georgia ranks fourth behind Texas, Florida and California as the state that produces the largest number of FBS high school recruits each February.
  Texans signed: 30
  Roster breakdown: 110 total, 42 Kentucky, 52 other SEC states.
  Top Texan: K Seth Hanson, Richardson Lake Highlands (third in career points scored).
  Notes: Kentucky has made only limited forays into Texas since the Hal Mumme-Guy Morriss era of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
  Texans signed: 62
  Current Texans: 13
  Roster breakdown: 104 total, 65 from Louisiana, 22 from other SEC states.
  Texans on two-deep: (5) QB Jarrett Lee, Brenham; DB Craig Loston, Aldine Eisenhower; DB Ron Brooks, Irving MacArthur; K James Hairston, Dallas Jesuit; LB Luke Muncie, Klein Oak. (WR Russell Shepard, Houston Cypress Ridge, was suspended for the season opener.)
  Top Texans: OL Alan Faneca, Rosenberg Lamar (1997 Outland Trophy finalist, nine-time Pro Bowl selection); RB Joseph Addai, Houston Sharpstown (first-round pick by Colts in 2006 NFL Draft); QB Matt Flynn, Tyler Lee (MVP of 2007 BCS championship game).
  Notes: Louisiana ranks 25th in the nation in population but trailed only Texas, Florida, California, Georgia, Ohio and Alabama in the number of high school players signed by FBS schools in 2011.
  Texans signed: 12
  Current Texans: 9
  Roster breakdown: 120 total, 40 Mississippi, 57 other SEC states.
  Texans on two-deep: (2) WR Ja-Mes Logan, Spring Westfield; KR Philander Moore, Austin Bowie.
  Top Texan: QB Jevan Snead (transferred from Texas, two-year starter led Rebels to 2008 Cotton Bowl win).
  Notes: Coach Houston Nutt's staff includes former Rice assistants David Lee and Keith Burns and former Aldine MacArthur WR James Shibest.
  Texans signed: 22
  Roster breakdown: 105 total, 67 from Mississippi, 29 from other SEC states.
  Texans on two-deep: (3) K Derek DePasquale, The Woodlands; OL Archie Muniz, Houston Cypress Creek; DL Shane McCardell, Beaumont West Brook.
  Top Texan: DL John Hilliard, Baytown Sterling (second-team all-SEC in 1999, played three seasons in NFL).
  Notes: Most of the Bulldogs' Texas activity came when Jackie Sherrill coached there from 1991-2003.
  Texans signed: 3
  Current Texans: None
  Roster breakdown: 111 total, 47 from South Carolina, 41 from other SEC states.
  Top Texans: None.
  Notes: The Gamecocks recruit more heavily into the Carolinas and Virginia than to the western edges of SEC country.
  Texans signed: 16
  Roster breakdown: 115 total, 47 from Tennessee, 48 from other SEC states.
  Top Texan: P David Leaverton, Midland (kicked for 1998 national champions, 2000 team captain).
  Notes: QB Branndon Stewart of Stephenville played alongside Peyton Manning for one year before transferring to Texas A&M, where he started for the Aggies in their 1998 Big 12 title-game win.
  Texans signed: 52
  Current Texans: 6
  Roster breakdown: 104 total, 16 from Tennessee, 58 from other SEC states.
  Texans on two-deep: (3) DB Eddie Foster, Colleyville Heritage; LB Al Owens, Springtown; OL Chase White, Plano West.
  Top Texan: DB Eric Vance, Hurst Bell (five-year NFL veteran, director of player personnel for the Buccaneers).
  Notes: The Commodores have signed at least one Texas player every year except one since the SEC expanded.