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Texas Football: The Longhorns are back…for real this time

By Richard Kimball

WACO, TX - OCTOBER 28: Head coach Tom Herman of the Texas Longhorns looks on as the Texas Longhorns play the Baylor Bears in the first half at McLane Stadium on October 28, 2017 in Waco, Texas. Texas won 38-7. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)
WACO, TX - OCTOBER 28: Head coach Tom Herman of the Texas Longhorns looks on as the Texas Longhorns play the Baylor Bears in the first half at McLane Stadium on October 28, 2017 in Waco, Texas. Texas won 38-7. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images) /
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In his second year as the Longhorns’ head coach, can Tom Herman put Texas football back among the best of college football in 2018?

Texas football is one of the best programs in the history of college football. With four national titles, 58 All-Americans and ranking second in all-time wins, the Longhorns are synonymous with greatness.

However, after the departure of Mack Brown at the end of the 2013 season, the Longhorns posted a 16-21 record from 2014-2016. The program was going through one of its worst three-year spans in almost 30 years.

Fortunately, a little hope was restored back into the program last season as the Longhorns finished 7-6, their first winning season since Brown left. Now, one win above .500 doesn’t seem like much but it’s the step in the direction for a team trying to find its old identity.

Now in his second year as head coach, Tom Herman hopes to not only put the Longhorns back among the best of college football but to keep them there. In prior years, the reputation of the program spoke for itself in preseason predictions and analyses, but expectations were never met nor were they even within kicking distance.

“The Longhorns are back”, “Texas will take the Big 12” and other proclamations filled the weeks of the offseason but as soon as the season started, so did disappointment.

The Texas Longhorns carried that momentum they had following last year into the offseason and finished with a top five recruiting class for 2018. With experienced talent, fresh faces and the new expectation of being average, the Longhorns head into this season ready to change the narrative of their program back to its original state. Texas football is ready for redemption, and the rest of the nation should be on high alert.

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