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The 1980 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Longhorns finished the regular season with a 7–4 record and lost to North Carolina in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.
The Texas Longhorns football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the University of Texas in the Big 12 Conference. Since the establishment of the team in 1893, Texas has appeared in 62 bowl games with a record of 33-27-2. Included in these games are two BCS National Championship Game ...
The 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season saw a university from the state of Georgia take its first national title since 1942. Nine days following the bowl games to close the 1979 season , tragedy struck when new LSU coach Bo Rein died when the plane he was flying in crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia .
Houston, Texas: Mizlou No. 13 North Carolina Tar Heels (10–1) Texas Longhorns (7–4) ACC Southwest: North Carolina 16 Texas 7 Jan. 1: Cotton Bowl Classic: Cotton Bowl Dallas, Texas: CBS No. 9 Alabama Crimson Tide (9–2) No. 6 Baylor Bears (10–1) SEC Southwest: Alabama 30 Baylor 2 Sugar Bowl: Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, Louisiana: ABC ...
In 2022, Texas shut out Oklahoma, beating them 49-0. This was the most dominant win by either side since 2003, and the first shut out since 2004. Texas leads the all-time series 63–51–5 through the 2023 season. [45] [46] In 2023 Oklahoma surpassed Texas A&M as UT’s most played football rivalry game.
The game was considered the most stunning upset college football game of the 1990s. Texas earned the automatic bid to the Fiesta Bowl where they faced Penn State. The close of the 1996 season and the five straight wins propelled by a high powered offense led by James Brown gave Texas fans high hopes for the 1997 season.
That just happened. A Texas drive that reached the 1-yard line ended in a Buckeyes touchdown going the other direction. Game over. Ohio State to the national championship game. Texas to the offseason.
The game of football yesterday afternoon at the Varsity athletic field was an interesting contrast, notwithstanding the rather one-sided score of 28–2 in favor of the Varsity. [ 7 ] In the 1950 rivalry game, Billy Vessels scored on an 11-yard run late in the contest, and Texas native Jim Weatherall kicked the extra point to give Oklahoma a ...