USA Today Sports spent the year keeping a close eye on all 130 teams in college football. The Texas Longhorns had high expectations coming off their big Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia. After quarterback Sam Ehlinger proclaimed that “Texas was back”, their season unraveled leading to a 8-5 season that saw them take the soon to be National Champion Louisiana State Tigers to the brink and a huge bowl victory to cap off the season.
USA TODAY Sports gave the Longhorns a grade of “C”. Not exactly surprising given the expectation level for Texas. After competing for the Big 12 Championship against rival Oklahoma, the Longhorns were poised for a rematch in 2019 but unfortunately the surprise Baylor Bears snatched that opportunity away from them.
The Dallas Morning News posted an article that claimed that Texas would lose to LSU by a field goal but win 11 games including the Big 12 title. While the Longhorns did lose to the Tigers, they didn’t live up to the rest of the prediction. For 2020, the pressure is on Sam Ehlinger and Tom Herman to get the Longhorns back to the top of the Big 12 and competing for a spot in the College Football Playoff.