2009 NCAA - Texas
Mack Brown has cemented his legacy, even after the Longhorns couldn't win it all last year. UT has now won 10 games in an amazing EIGHT straight seasons. Stud QB Colt McCoy decided to return for his senior season, a major key in UT's Big 12 and national aspirations. There are linemen everywhere, and enough good receivers back to cause problems for opposing defenses. There is still no big TE receiving threat to distract DB's from loading up on Longhorn receivers on the outside, and no true running back has emerged to take some of the pressure off McCoy (the leading rusher by over 200 yards last season).
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The Longhorns also lost three of their front four on defense. But they lost them to the NFL, and this is Texas, where Brown reloads, he doesn't rebuild. Defensive coordinator Will Muschamp has moved stud OLB Sergio Kindle to defensive end and is tweaking a 4-2-5 formation. Texas has a glut of DB's, and no team saw fewer rushing attempts against it than Texas last fall. The Longhorns only had 16 takeaways (six interceptions, which was third-fewest in America). |
ASK the bookie? - The Bookie has a lot of friends who, unfortunately, are Texas fans. You can't find one of them that thinks this team doesn't have a chance to win the national title. Considering the way the Longhorns got snubbed last fall, they might well be a team on a mission. A three-week run in October with trips to Dallas to face Oklahoma, Missouri and Oklahoma State will probably determine Texas's fate. Last season, it was a four-week run of brutality that included those three (all Texas wins) followed by a trip to unbeaten Texas Tech - a game that the Horns lost with one second left.
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