Texas holds the top spot in the USA Today preseason coaches football poll. Defending national champion Ohio State is No. 2 followed by No. 3 Penn State, No. 4 Georgia and No. 5 Notre Dame.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened on Monday to arrest Democratic lawmakers who are using their collective absence from the state capital to prevent the legislature from adopting a Republican-backed plan for redrawing Texas congressional districts.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state Department of Public Safety to conduct the civil arrest of dozens of State House Democrats who fled the state in a bid to block a partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional map.