Texas Longhorns College Football Preview 2021: What Will Happen, Season Prediction
The slide stops now.
Texas was a superpower of superpowers in the 2000s under Mack Brown, but the unofficial end of the great area came early in the BCS Championship loss to Alabama in Pasadena to end the 2009 season. Colt McCoy got hurt, Bama won and went on to dominate college football even since, and Texas just sort of faded into the background.
Ever since beating Nebraska in that epic ’09 Big 12 Championship, Texas has gone a pedestrian 78-71 with a grand total of zero Big 12 championships and as many College Football Playoff appearance as you have.
Since 2009, five Big 12 teams have won the conference championship. That means Texas – TEXAS! – has been sitting in the lobby with Kansas, and Texas Tech, and Iowa State, and that new guy West Virginia.
Oh sure, there have been a few laughs, and beating Oklahoma here and there and taking down bowl games under the last regime was certainly fun, but it’s Texas.
It’s not like the biggest cash machine program in college football is playing in the SEC West or Big Ten East.
It’s the Big 12. Start winning it already, Texas.
Steve Sarkisian is expected to do nothing less.
Oh, and he needs to make the program national title-good again.
Set The Texas Longhorns Regular Season Win Total At … 9
This year’s schedule is manageable enough to win right away.
Going to Arkansas won’t be easy, and dates at TCU, Baylor and West Virginia will be tough, too. Throw in the Oklahoma and Iowa State games away from home, and the dangerous battles at home against Kansas State, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State – and don’t laugh, Louisiana, too – and there’s just enough concern to make a nine-win regular season a good bar to hit
Even more than a great debut, the program has to look like it’s about to turn the corner. This season has to look like the hiring of Steve Sarkisian is going to make everything finally click again.
The program is bound by nothing but high expectations. It’s time to start meeting them.
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