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Arkansas Over Texas – Historically Awful Offense Bottoms Out
There have been a lot of low points for the Texas offense in 2014 with Tyrone Swoopes at quarterback. The 31-7 loss to Arkansas in the Texas Bowl might be rock bottom for the Longhorns and Charlie Strong, not getting the debut season he dreamed of when taking the role of head coach.
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Kentucky Over Texas – First Time it Got a Little Bit Difficult
The number one Kentucky Wildcats carry on with their cruise towards winning the College Basketball championship with the deepest team ever assembled, beating number seven Texas 63-51 in what was their most difficult challenge so far this season.
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TCU Over Texas – One Step Closer to the Playoff
If the committee needed a statement win from TCU to convince them they deserve to be in the playoff, their 48-10 drubbing of Texas in Austin should be enough to earn them some style points. There’s also the matter of actually winning the Big 12 and getting over a team or two in the final rankings, but that’s another matter.
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Big 12: Oklahoma Disappoint vs Texas, Baylor Barely Escape Against TCU
The Red River Showdown has been often one-sided in recent years. As expected, Oklahoma walked away from the Cotton Bowl with a win over Texas, but not as convincing as it should have been considering the team’s records. Baylor and TCU clashed heading in the battle of the undefeated teams, and walked away with a 61-58 win thanks to a crazy finish, which included scoring 24 points in the final 11 minutes of the game.
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College Football – Texas vs Oklahoma Predictions
For the second consecutive year, Texas enter the Red River Showdown unranked, and as huge underdogs to Oklahoma, also coming off a loss. Last year it worked out fine for the Longhorns, but there haven’t been too many indications that they’ll be able to repeat that surprising win.
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Texas Longhorns – David Ash Has Taken One Hit Too Many
It should have been a great college career for David Ash at Texas but a concussion and symptoms he simply couldn’t shake off prove to be too dangerous for the quarterback to continue and play with, announcing his retirement from college football.
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UCLA Over Texas – From Humiliation to Frustration
Things aren’t getting any better for Texas who looked a bit more respectable in a 20-17 loss to UCLA, but it did come against a backup quarterback in Jerry Neuheisel while the team actually managed to somehow mess up a coin toss and give up their possession on both kick offs.
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College Football – Teams With Reason to Panic
Patience is usually the smart way to go about things in College Football, especially when the end game isn’t always about winning right now and this season. However, two games into the 2014 campaign, programs like Texas, Michigan, Ohio State and even the 2-0 UCLA should be concerned about how this season is shaping up to be very different from their expectations.
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BYU Over Texas – It’ll Get Worse Before it Gets any Better
There are no magic tricks to fix an ailing program as Charlie Strong learned, losing for the first time as the head coach of Texas with a humiliating home defeat against BYU which did introduce a new Longhorns quarterback, Tyrone Swoops, but that was too little and obviously not enough against the Cougars, running all over the defense that stood in front of them.
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Texas vs Texas A&M – Wishful Thinking, Nothing More
Charlie Strong wants to play the Aggies. Maybe it’s just a way to improve his popularity among fans even before the first game of the season has been played. It’s nice, wishful thinking, but it doesn’t seem like another Texas vs Texas A&M game is likely to happen in the near future, despite the rich history, which includes 118 games between them, including 64 times on Thanksgiving.