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Eleven coaches have won conference championships with the Longhorns: Berry Whitaker, Clyde Littlefield, Bible, Cherry, Price, Royal, Akers, McWilliams, Mackovic, Brown, and Sarkisian. Royal and Brown have also won national championships with Texas. Royal is the all-time leader in games coached (219), years coached (20) and total wins (167).
Beginning in 1893, the Texas Longhorns football program is one of the most highly regarded and historic programs of all time. [4] From 1936 to 1946 the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Dana X. Bible, [5] and then from 1957 to 1976 the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Darrell K Royal, [6] who won three national championships. [7]
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 ...
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth † Indicates Bowl Coalition , Bowl Alliance , BCS , or CFP / New Years' Six bowl. # Rankings from final Coaches Poll .
This is a list of yearly Big 12 Conference football champions. Champions are determined in a head to head matchup in the Big 12 Championship Game held at the end of the regular season. The game was played each year since the conference's formation in 1996 until 2010 and returned during the 2017 season. From 1996 to 2010 the championship game ...
Mack Brown entered his 10th season as the head coach of the Texas Longhorns with a record of 93–22 setting a new mark above 0.8 winning percentage (.809), the best in Longhorn history. The 2007 Texas Longhorns football team began play ranked third in the all-time list of both total wins and winning percentage, and were ranked in the Top 10 by ...
Texas earned its second Big 12 football championship [10] to make 27 conference championships total, including 25 in the Southwest Conference. [12] The week after the game, Barnett was fired as Colorado's head coach [ 162 ] and replaced by Dan Hawkins , the former head coach of Boise State .
The 1969 team is the last all-white team to be named consensus national champions with the onset of racial integration. [2] Julius Whittier, the first African-American player in Texas football history, was enrolled at UT as a freshman but was not eligible to play; NCAA rules of the time barred freshmen from playing varsity football and ...