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A charter member of the Southwest Conference until its dissolution in 1996, the Texas Longhorns competed in the Big 12 Conference until 2024. The Texas Longhorns joined the Southeastern Conference for the 2024–2025 season with the University of Oklahoma for a reported $100 million, [8] as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. Intercollegiate team representing The University of Texas at Austin in American football "Texas football" redirects here. For the magazine, see Dave Campbell's Texas Football. Texas Longhorns football 2025 Texas Longhorns football team First season 1893 ; 132 years ago Athletic director ...
A steer. The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip. [4] It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512. [5]
Throughout the 80-year history of the conference, Texas was the most dominant football program in its history, winning 27 conference championships and representing the champion in the Cotton Bowl Classic a record 22 times. 1996 brought about the formation of the new Big 12 Conference and new talks about Texas winning a national championship ...
This is a list of the starting quarterbacks for the Texas Longhorns football teams since 1944. [1] They are listed in order of the first game each player started for the Longhorns that season. A player is credited with a win if he started the game and the team won that game, no matter if the player was injured or permanently removed after the ...
The 1979–80 Texas Longhorns returned only one starter, forward Ron Baxter. [109] LaSalle Thompson, 6'10" center and future Longhorn great, joined the program as a freshman. [109] Texas ended the regular season with an 18–10 overall record and a 10–6 conference record, [97] finishing third behind Texas A&M and Arkansas in SWC play.
On May 30, 2009, the Longhorns and Boston College played in the longest game in college-baseball history—a 25-inning game, during the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship regional tournament at Austin, Texas. The Longhorns—who were designated the visiting team despite playing on their home field—won, 3–2.
Texas also holds the records for most individual CWS games won (88) and most overall NCAA tournament games won (248). It is the winningest program in college baseball history, and boasts 79 conference regular season championships, and 16 conference tournament championships. Because it leads the collegiate record books in most categories, Texas ...