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The 'Texas Longhorns football team' is the interscholastic football team at the University of Texas at Austin. The Texas Longhorns are a perennial powerhouse -- one of the elite college football programs in the nation. The Longhorns have won four Division I-A National Championships -- in 1963, 1969, 1970, and 2005. Texas has won the third-most games in college football history and are one of only four programs to have attained 800 all-time victories. Two Longhorn players have won College Football's highest individual honor -- the Heisman Trophy: Earl Campbell (1977) and Ricky Williams (1998).
Texas football plays its home games at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, located on-campus in Austin. The current head coach of the team is Mack Brown.
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History
Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium with a view of the Godzillatron
The University of Texas has traditionally been considered a college football powerhouse, having earned four National Championships, including one to conclude the 2005-2006 season. From 1936 to 2006, Longhorn football teams have finished their seasons ranked in the top ten of at least one of the two major polls 25 times, or more than one-third of the time, according to the Associated Press. The Longhorn football program experienced its greatest sustained success under the guidance of legendary head coach Darrell Royal, who led the Longhorns to three National Championships (in 1963, 1969, and 1970) during his twenty-year career with the Longhorns (1957-1976). The 1969 Longhorn football team was the last Division I team to win a national championship without an integrated roster.
Two Texas Longhorn running backs have won college football's most prestigious individual award, the Heisman Trophy: Earl Campbell (1977) and Ricky Williams (1998). Eleven Longhorns have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame[1], while four are enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame.[2] have also received recognition for their performance.
The Longhorns rank as the third most winning program in college football history, in terms of both total wins and win percentage. As of the end of the 2006 season, the Longhorns' all-time record is 810-312-33 (.716). Only Notre Dame and the University of Michigan have won more games and a greater percentage of games played than Texas,[3] which recorded its 800th victory with the Longhorns' 41-38 win over the USC Trojans in the 2006 BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the program was somewhat less successful, but Texas has since returned to prominence in college football, finishing in the top six of the AP and coaches' polls in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005.
The Longhorn team plays home games in Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium which has a seating capacity of 85,123.[4] Renovations began on the stadium November 14, 2005, two days following UT's last home football game of the 2005 season. The improvements scheduled were completed before the 2006-2007 football season, and included additional seating[5] and the nation's first high definition video display in a collegiate facility nicknamed "Godzillatron."[6] With the new bleacher seating section added behind the south endzone, the stadium's stated capacity for the 2006 season was 85,123.[7] This has already been surpassed, with 89,422 viewing the Ohio State game on 9 September 2006.[8] That attendance figure is the largest crowd ever to watch a football game in the state of Texas.[8]
The Longhorns are currently coached by Mack Brown, who came to Texas after being head coach at North Carolina.
Texas Longhorns under Mack Brown
Mack Brown has been the head football coach for Texas since 1998. From 1998 through the 2006-2007 season, the Longhorns had a 93-22 (81%) win-loss record. In his first six years at Texas, Brown had a winning record but he had not managed to win the Big 12 conference or to lead the Longhorn into a Bowl Championship Series game. He was often lauded for his recruiting while being criticized for failing to win championships.
That changed with the 2004 Texas Longhorn football team who played in the 2005 Rose Bowl against the Wolverines of the University of Michigan. The game was the first meeting between the two storied teams and the Longhorns' first trip to the Rose Bowl. In a classic game that featured five lead changes and three tie scores during the course of play, the Longhorns defeated the Wolverines 38-37 on a successful 37-yard field goal by place kicker Dusty Mangum as time expired. It was the first time the Rose Bowl had ever been decided on the closing play, and it earned the Longhorns a top 5 finish in the polls. Three ex-Longhorns from the 2005 Rose Bowl team — Cedric Benson, Derrick Johnson, and Bo Scaife — were selected in the 2005 NFL Draft.
Brown followed up the strong 2004 season on the field with an extremely successful 2005 recruiting season by securing the top-ranked recruiting class (the 2005 recruiting season is for players entering the University in Fall 2006). With the exception of Cedric Benson, Derrick Johnson, and Bo Scaife, Texas returned most of their key players from 2004–2005, including red-shirt Junior Quarterback Vince Young. The 2005 Texas Longhorn football team was given a pre-season #2 ranking (behind defending National Champions University of Southern California) by ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine, and was also ranked second in the AP and ''USA Today'' coaches pre-season polls. They maintained those rankings throughout the entire 2005–2006 season.
Texas and USC ended up winning out their seasons and faced each other in the National Championship, which Texas won, 41-38. At the conclusion of the 2005-2006 season, Sports Illustrated issued a special commemorative edition that featured Vince Young shouting in triumph amidst a storm of multi-colored confetti. Features in the special edition included a story on ''Vince Young's Glory Days'' by author Tim Layden, as well as a story disecting ''How the'' Rose Bowl ''was won'' by Austin Murphy. The issue was on sale nationwide alongside the regular edition of the magazine, which also featured the Rose Bowl on the cover.
The 2006 Texas Longhorn football team hoped to repeat as national champions. The Texas Longhorns returned several offensive (7) and defensive (7) starters from their National Title team, but quarterback Vince Young elected to go the NFL which left freshman Colt McCoy as the starting quarterback.
Texas opened the season with a win at home against North Texas. Their second game, against Ohio State, was one of the most anticipated college football games of the regular season.[10][11][12] The Longhorns lost that game, but then defeated Rice, Iowa State and Sam Houston State by a combined score of 145-24. After defeating number 14th ranked Oklahoma Sooners 28-10 in the Red River Shootout, it appeared that the Longhorns were a near-certainty to once again play in the Big 12 Championship game for a chance to enter the Bowl Championship Series. However, in Texas' next game, against unranked Kansas State, Colt McCoy suffered a neck stinger injury while rushing for a touchdown, and in the Lone Star Showdown rivalry game against unranked Texas A&M, he was knocked out of the game by a helmet-to-helmet tackle. Partially due to these injuries, Texas lost both games, 45-42 and 12-7 respectively, their first consecutive losses in over five years. As a result, the Oklahoma Sooners won the division and played in the Big 12 Championship game. The Alamo Bowl, with the 5th pick of Big 12 conference teams selected the Longhorns to play against unranked Iowa who had placed 8th in the Big Ten conference. McCoy was able to return at quarterback, and the Longhorns narrowly defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes 26-24.
The 2007 Texas Longhorn football team will begin play on September 1 2007. Texas enters the 2007 season ranked third in the all-time list of both total wins and winning percentage. They are ranked in the Top 10 by numerous pre-season polls. For instance, a pre-season ranking by ESPN writer Mark Schlabach has the Longhorns ranked eighth;[13] Rivals.com has them at ninth.[14] College Football News[15] and Real Football 365[16] both have Texas ranked third.
Championships
===National championships (4)===
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| valign="top" |
{| cellpadding="1" border="1" cellspacing="0" width="80%"
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Year
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Coach
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Selector
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Record
|- align="center"
| 1963 || Darrell Royal || AP, Coaches || 11-0
|- align="center"
| 1969 || Darrell Royal || AP, Coaches || 11-0
|- align="center"
| 1970 || Darrell Royal || Coaches || 10-1
|- align="center"
| 2005 || Mack Brown || AP, Coaches || 13-0
|}
Conference championships (29)
Texas has won a combined 29 conference championships. Texas won the Southwest Conference 25 times and has won the Big 12 Conference twice.
{| border="0" width="100%"
| valign="top" |
{| cellpadding="1" border="1" cellspacing="0" width="80%"
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Year
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Conference
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Overall Record
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Conference Record
|- align="center"
| 1913 || TIAA || 7-1 || 3-0
|- align="center"
| 1914 || TIAA || 8-1 || 4-0
|- align="center"
| 1920 || Southwest || 9-0 || 5-0
|- align="center"
| 1928 || Southwest || 7-2 || 5-1
|- align="center"
| 1930 || Southwest || 8-1-1 || 4-1
|- align="center"
| 1942 || Southwest || 9-2 || 5-1
|- align="center"
| 1943 || Southwest || 7-1-1 || 5-0
|- align="center"
| 1945 || Southwest || 10-1 || 5-1
|- align="center"
| 1950 || Southwest || 9-2 || 6-0
|- align="center"
| 1952 || Southwest || 9-2 || 6-0
|- align="center"
| 1953† || Southwest || 7-3 || 5-1
|- align="center"
| 1959† || Southwest || 9-2 || 5-1
|- align="center"
| 1961† || Southwest || 10-1 || 6-1
|- align="center"
| 1962 || Southwest || 9-1-1 || 6-0-1
|- align="center"
| 1963 || Southwest || 11-0 || 7-0
|- align="center"
| 1968† || Southwest || 9-1-1 || 6-1
|- align="center"
| 1969 || Southwest || 11-0 || 7-0
|- align="center"
| 1970 || Southwest || 10-1 || 7-0
|- align="center"
| 1971 || Southwest || 8-3 || 6-1
|- align="center"
| 1972 || Southwest || 10-1 || 7-0
|- align="center"
| 1973 || Southwest || 8-3 || 7-0
|- align="center"
| 1975† || Southwest || 10-2 || 6-1
|- align="center"
| 1977 || Southwest || 11-1 || 8-0
|- align="center"
| 1983 || Southwest || 11-1 || 8-0
|- align="center"
| 1990 || Southwest || 10-2 || 8-0
|- align="center"
| 1994† || Southwest || 8-4 || 4-3
|- align="center"
| 1995 || Southwest || 10-2-1 || 7-0
|- align="center"
| 1996 || Big 12 || 8-5 || 6-2
|- align="center"
| 2005 || Big 12 || 13-0 || 8-0
|-
| colspan=4 | † Denotes co-champions
|}
'Conference Affiliations'
★ 1893-95: Independent
★ 1896-1904: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
★ 1905-12: Independent
★ 1913-17: Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association
★ 1915-95: Southwest Conference
★ 1996-present: Big 12 Conference
Divisional championships (4)
Texas has made 4 appearances in the Big 12 Championship Game as winner of the Big 12 South Division. Texas is 2-2 in those appearances.
{| border="0" width="100%"
| valign="top" |
{| cellpadding="1" border="1" cellspacing="0" width="80%"
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Year
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Division Championship
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| B12 CG Result
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| Opponent
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| PF
!bgcolor="#DF7330"| PA
|- align="center"
| 1996 || Big 12 South || 'W' || Nebraska || 37 || 27
|- align="center"
| 1999 || Big 12 South || 'L' || Nebraska || 6 || 22
|- align="center"
| 2001 || Big 12 South || 'L' || Colorado || 37 || 39
|- align="center"
| 2005 || Big 12 South || 'W' || Colorado || 70 || 3
|}
Records
All-time bowl results
Individual award winners
★ 'Heisman Trophy - Outstanding Player' :Earl Campbell - 1977 :Ricky Williams - 1998 ★ 'Maxwell Award - Player of the Year' :Tommy Nobis - 1965 :Ricky Williams - 1998 :Vince Young - 2005 ★ 'Walter Camp Award - Player of the Year' :Ricky Williams - 1998 ★ 'Outland Trophy - Interior Lineman' :Scott Appleton - 1963 :Tommy Nobis - 1965 :Brad Shearer - 1977 | ★ 'Lombardi Award - Defensive Player' :Kenneth Sims - 1981 :Tony Degrate - 1984 ★ 'Davey O'Brien Award - Quarterback' :Vince Young - 2005 ★ 'Dick Butkus Award - Linebacker' :Derrick Johnson - 2004 ★ 'Jim Thorpe Award - Defensive Back' :Michael Huff - 2005 :Aaron Ross - 2006 ★ 'Doak Walker Award - Running Back' :Ricky Williams - 1997 :Ricky Williams - 1998 :Cedric Benson - 2004 |
All-time University of Texas football team
chosen by Austin American-Statesman 9/9/2005
'Offense' QB–Bobby Layne, 1944-47 RB–Earl Campbell, 1974-77 FB–Steve Worster, 1968-70 RB– Ricky Williams, 1995-98 SE–Hub Bechtol, 1944-46 WR–Roy Williams, 2000-03 LT– Bobby Wuensch, 1968-70 LG– Bud McFadin, 1948-50 OC– Bill Wyman, 1971-73 RG– Harley Sewell, 1950-52 RT– Jerry Sisemore, 1970-72 PK– Jeff Ward, 1983-86 | 'Defense' DE–Bill Atessis, 1968-70 DT–Scott Appleton, 1961-63 DT–Kenneth Sims, 1978-81 DE–Kiki DeAyala, 1979-82 LB–Derrick Johnson, 2001-04 LB–Tommy Nobis, 1963-65 LB–Johnny Treadwell 1960-62 CB–Nathan Vasher, 2000-03 CB–Raymond Clayborn, 1973-76 FS–Jerry Gray, 1981-84 SS–Johnnie Johnson, 1976-79 Pu– Russell Erxleben, 1975-78 |
COACH: Darrell Royal, (1957-78)
HONORARY CAPTAIN: Louis Jordan (1911-14) First Texas player to make the Walter Camp All-American team. Jordan was later killed in France in World War II.
Rivalries
The University's biggest rival historically is Texas A&M University,[17]Oklahoma Sooners to also be important rivals in football, especially in recent years due to the prominence of both programs.[18] Other teams have also been considered to be rivals of Texas in various sports.[19][20][21][22]
University of Oklahoma
2006 Red River Shootout with yellow arrow indicating the crowd split at the 50 yard line
Texas has a long-standing rivalry with the University of Oklahoma. The football game between the University of Texas and Oklahoma is commonly known as the "Red River Shootout" and is held annually in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl. Dallas is used as a "neutral site" since it is approximately mid-way between the two campuses. The stadium is split with each team having an equal number of supporters on each side of the 50 yard line. Texas state flags fly around the Longhorn end of the stadium and Oklahoma state flags fly around the Sooner end.
The Red River Shootout originated in 1900, while Oklahoma was still a territory of the United States, and it is the longest-running college-football rivalry played on a neutral field.[23] Since 2005, the football game has received sponsorship dollars in return for being referred to as the "SBC Red River Rivalry"[24] (changed to AT&T Red River Rivalry in 2006 when SBC changed its corporate name to AT&T), a move which has been criticized both for its commercialism[25] and its political correctness.[26] The University of Texas holds its annual Torchlight Parade during the week of the Red River Shootout.[27]
In recent years, this rivalry has taken on added significance, since both football programs have been highly ranked and compete in the same division of the Big 12 conference. In 2005, the Dallas Morning News did an opinion poll of the 119 Division 1A football coaches as to the nations top rivalry game in college football. The Texas-OU game was ranked third.[28]
The game typically has conference or even national significance. Since 1945, one or both of the two teams has been ranked among the top 25 teams in the nation coming into 60 out of 65 games. As of January 2007, Texas leads the all-time series 57-39-5, with a 45-35-4 edge in Dallas, and currently has a two-year win streak. Four of the last six showings featured one of the participants in the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game (2000, 2003-2005), including national titles won by Oklahoma in 2000 and by Texas in 2005. Four times during 2000-2004, a loss to Oklahoma was what kept Texas from plaing in the Big 12 Championship Game.
Texas A&M
The Texas/Texas A&M rivalry has given rise to several stereotypes on both sides: Aggies are generally portrayed as ignorant conservative farmers, while Longhorns are portrayed as highbrow and arrogant city-slickers.[29] The annual football game with Texas A&M takes place the day after Thanksgiving each year. The Longhorns have been dominant in the rivalry and boast a record of 73-35-5 against the Aggies.
In an attempt to generate more attention for the rivalry in sports other than football, in 2004 the two schools started the Lone Star Showdown,[30] a trial two-year program. Essentially, each time the two schools meet in a sport, the winner of the matchup gets a point. At the end of the year, the school with the most points wins the series and receives the Lone Star Showdown trophy.
Aspects of the rivalry include:
★ Each school mentions the other in its fight song (Texas with "and it's goodbye to A&M" in Texas Fight,[31] and the Aggies singing about Texas for essentially the entire second verse of the Aggie War Hymn[32])
★ The football series between the two universities is the third longest running rivalry in all of college football.[33] Since 1900, the last regular season football game is usually reserved for their matchup.[34]
★ Each school has elaborate pre-game preparations for the annual football clash, including the Aggie Bonfire[35] and the Hex Rally[36]
★ Texas has a unique lighting scheme for the UT Tower after wins over Texas A&M.[37]
★ In the past, mischief has preceded the annual game, such as "kidnapping" each other's mascots.[38][39]
Others
Many other schools consider UT among their biggest rivals. This list includes most other colleges in Texas, but especially Baylor[40] (located just up Interstate 35 from UT), Texas Tech,[41] and Houston.[42] Texas is also the biggest rival of the University of Arkansas[43] which may be attributed to their long tenure as the two eponymous state schools of the former Southwest Conference, or to the 1969 game between the two, which decided the national championship in favor of the Longhorns.[44][45]
Traditions
See also
★ 2004 Texas Longhorns football team
★ 2005 Texas Longhorns football team
★ 2006 Texas Longhorns football team
★ 2007 Texas Longhorns football team
References
1. http://www.collegefootball.org/halloffamers.php
2. http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/colleges.html
3. Division I-A All-Time Wins. College Football Database.
4. Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium
5. Young, Meghan Regents approve stadium upgrades November 10, 2005 ''The Daily Texan''.
6. Longhorns choose Daktronics for HD video display
7. Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium
8. Ohio State vs Texas New attendance record for the state of Texas
9. Ohio State vs Texas New attendance record for the state of Texas
10. September's intriguing matchups
11. Home field will lift Texas over Ohio St. Buckeyes vs. Longhorns on Saturday very well could be Game of the Year
12. Texas now No. 2, preps for No. 1 Ohio St. - Saturday will be first 1-2 showdown in regular season since 1996
13. Booty could return Trojans to No. 1 ranking Mark Schlabach
14. Rivals.com 2007 Preseason Top 25 Mark McClellan
15. CFN 2007 Pre-Preseason Rankings - Top 25
16. 2007 Preseason Rankings, National Title Contenders - No. 1 to No. 25
17. What is Texas' biggest sports rivalry?
18. A Red River rivalry - UT's attention has shifted from Texas A&M to Oklahoma
19. Longhorns bounce back against rival, Sam Houston
20. Texas calls on Omaha architectural firm to build stadium worthy of program
21. Texas, Rice, ensue rivalry at the Dish
22. 'No Place Else But Texas'
23. Column: Rivalries spark college football
24. SBC Companies Extend Sponsorship with Universities of Oklahoma and Texas for the SBC Red River Rivalry
25. From the Daily:Adhering to tradition - SBC Sponsor Threatened Game's Integrity
26. Defense's goal is 13 points or less
27. Torchlight Parade
28. UT-OU : Best Rivalry?
29. Backyard Brawl : Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M, , W.K., Stratton, Three Rivers Press, ,
30. Lone Star Showdown
31. History of School and Fight Songs
32. The Aggie War Hymn
33. Texas following usual rivalry game routine
34. All Time Results
35. The Bonfire Burns
36. Hex Rally
37. University approves new policy for lighting UT Tower ''On Campus.'' Accessed 1 December 2005.
38. Bevo Nikar, Jim
39. Retired Mascot Reveille VI Euthanized Oct. 18
40. Texas sinks rival Baylor in CWS
41. Women's tennis finds positives in loss to rival Longhorns
42. The Cougars and the Lonhorns : History and Hatred
43. Offense using bye week to prepare for Arkansas
44. Texas 1969 Champions a Left a Lasting Legacy
45. Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming: Texas vs. Arkansas in Dixie's Last Stand, , Terry, Frei, Simon & Schuster, , ISBN 0-7432-2447-7
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