One great part of the beginning of a new college football season is for teams to attempt to right the wrongs from the previous year.
Chip Patterson of CBS Sports recently identified some of the biggest revenge games on the schedule for the 2022 college football season.
While Texas suffered a handful of heartbreaking losses last season, none hurt more than the home loss to Kansas. The Longhorns were a 31-point favorite in this matchup, but the Jayhawks stunned the college football world by winning their first game in Austin with a walk-off two-point conversion in overtime.
Welcome to the upside down where Kansas, not Oklahoma, gets highlighted for a revenge game. Texas did lose another chaotic edition of the Red River Rivalry, blowing a lead in the process, but when the Longhorns take the field in Dallas this fall is it going to seem like getting revenge without Lincoln Riley on the sideline and Caleb Williams on the field? That brings our attention to Kansas, a program that has defeated Texas in two of the last five meetings and a coach in Lance Leipold who, like Steve Sarkisian, was in his first year when the Jayhawks stunned the Longhorns 57-56 in overtime on a walk-off two-point conversion. The loss, in Austin, Texas, was Texas’ sixth of the season and one of the final blows in a seven-game losing streak that kept Sarkisian and the Longhorns out of the postseason.
Plus, if your team’s suffering gets turned into an NIL ad — as it did for Kansas tight end Jared Casey, who scored the winning two-point conversion — that quickly becomes grounds for a fight. There should be a lot more pent up aggression for Kansas among Texas football fans than anyone would have ever expected in their current lifetime, but on Nov. 19 there will be nothing but revenge on the mind of Longhorns everywhere.
Patterson also labeled Texas A&M vs. Alabama, Michigan at Ohio State, Oklahoma State at Oklahoma and NC State at Clemson as the top revenge games to watch this season.
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