Texas Football: 10 greatest coaches in program history

2. Mack Brown: 1998-2013

• Career Record: 158-48
• Awards and Accolades: 2005 and ’09 Big 12 Champions, 2005 National Champions, 2005 Paul “Bear” Bryant Award, 2008 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award, College Football Hall of Fame Class of 2018

The number two coach on this list is also among the most recent people inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, coach Mack Brown. Brown played his college football at Vanderbilt and Florida State before becoming an assistant at Florida State following graduation. He would also spend stints as an assistant at Southern Miss, Memphis, Iowa State and LSU before becoming head coach at Appalachian State in 1983.

Following his one season at Appalachian State, Brown spent a year as offensive coordinator at Oklahoma before becoming head coach at Tulane. Brown coached the Green Wave for three seasons before he was hired by North Carolina in 1988. His first two seasons in Chapel Hill saw him won only two games, but UNC soon became an ACC power, the pinnacle being back-to-back ten win seasons in 1996 and 1997.

Brown left the Tar Heels in 1998 for Texas and made an immediate impact. In his first season, Texas won nine games and Ricky Williams captured the Heisman Trophy. Brown’s teams consistently won at a high rate early on in his career, but couldn’t get past the Longhorns arch-rival Oklahoma Sooners. That trend was finally bucked in 2005, which also saw Texas win its first national championship in 35 years.

Brown would lead the Longhorns to another national championship appearance in 2009, but following two underwhelming seasons in 2012 and 2013, Brown resigned as head coach following the team’s loss in the Alamo Bowl. Brown currently works as a college football analyst for ESPN.