Ability to overcome adversity
For the last decade, Texas has been a program that cannot handle adversity, and it is losses like the the Arkansas and Oklahoma ones that would decimate seasons in the past. Steve Sarkisian has winning experience and knows the importance of not dwelling on a loss too much. There is a difference between learning from a loss, and letting a loss mentally affect you. If Texas is still thinking about the Oklahoma loss coming into this Saturday, they will likely fall on their face…again.
This game will highlight the adjustments that both sides of the ball badly needed to make, and it will also display the mental toughness of a team who for one half last week looked like one of the best teams in college football. We will see the culture that Sarkisian has developed, or if the players revert back to the ways of Tom Herman where they were not built for the moment.
Finally, future of the program