College football: 5 most overrated programs in history

3. Texas Longhorns

The expectations in Austin, TX surrounding their beloved Texas Longhorns are monumental. Texas boosters and fans have national championship dreams and were the darlings of the recruiting world for over a decade under Mack Brown. ESPN gave Texas their own Longhorn Network.

The Longhorns haven’t had a double-digit winning season since they flopped in the 2010 BCS National Title Game, following the 2009 season. That spans the final years under Brown, then Charlie Strong and most recently Tom Herman. Herman’s recruiting prowess already has the Longhorns “back” according to some media and most fans.

Texas holds a national title from their 2006 Rose Bowl upset over the USC Trojans. However, with the onslaught of top-rated recruiting classes the college football world was constantly talking about what’s next for Texas and the ‘Horns haven’t delivered.

Before Mack Brown, Texas finished the 1996 season 8-5 with Priest Holmes and Ricky Williams at running back under John Mackovic. Before Mackovic, David McWilliams had extremely underwhelming seasons besides the 1990 season where Texas finished 10-2-1. Yet even in 1990, the Longhorns were annihilated by the Hurricanes in the 1991 Cotton Bowl. No matter how big of a slump the ‘Horns are in, the college football world is supposed to hold them as a blue blood.

Texas fans and the media have put enough of a hype machine behind the Longhorns for the past decade, now it’s time for Tom Herman to right the ship and get the ‘Horns back into the hunt. The Longhorns fight song says, “Texas Fight, Texas Fight, For it’s Texas that we love best” and yet the Longhorns haven’t requited the love with victories.