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Senior Bowl Executive Director Jim Nagy recently expressed his excitement in watching Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger this fall.
Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger is likely to be tabbed a mid-round draft pick, but another impressive season under his belt will only increase his stock. Continue reading “Senior Bowl executives look forward to watching Texas QB Sam Ehlinger”
Longhorns Wire has provided a tracker of each offer within the 2021 recruiting class that is still a possibility.
Texas head coach Tom Herman continues to put together a strong 2021 recruiting class. Continue reading “Texas Football: Updated 2021 recruiting tracker, offers and commits”
Draft Wire recently ranked the top No. 1 overall NFL Draft picks over the past 50 years.
Over the past 50 years, we’ve witnessed numerous No. 1 overall picks in the NFL Draft experience either successful or disappointing professional careers. Continue reading “Earl Campbell ranked as one of the best No. 1 overall picks since 1970”
USA Today came out with a list of the best 150 college football teams of all time, the Texas Longhorns appeared seven times.
Another All-Time list, this time it comes from USA Today as they named the top 150 college football teams in history. The Texas Longhorns were well represented on the countdown with seven teams of the 150 listed. Sorry Aggie fans, this list isn’t for you. We will countdown the list starting with the Longhorns team that comes in at 125, the 1977 team.
1977 Texas Longhorns (Number 125)
The Texas Longhorns in 1977 finished the season with a 11-1 record and a perfect conference record of 8-0. They opened the season at Texas Memorial Stadium beating Boston College 44-0. The team didn’t give up a point until their third game of the year where they beat Rice 72-15. The Longhorns beat Oklahoma in the Red River Shootout, 13-6. The Sooner were ranked number two at the time of the game.
Texas was led by team captain Earl Campbell as they marched towards the Cotton Bowl game where Notre Dame beat them 38-10 for their lone loss of the season.
