Three weeks ago, the knives were out in Austin. An extremely ugly 50-7 loss to TCU dropped Texas to 1-4 in Charlie Strong’ second season, and it was fair to wonder if Strong would make it to a third season, much less postseason play this winter.
Charlie Strong beats Bill Snyder. Crickets from the peanut gallery. 3 weeks ago twitter had Charlie Strong fired https://t.co/arJKAR3LoQ
— Jason McIntyre (@jasonrmcintyre) October 24, 2015
Since then, Strong has done plenty to right the Longhorns’ listing ship. A 24-17 Red River Rivalry win over Oklahoma was perhaps the most important of his career, and following an open date, the Longhorns ground out a rain-soaked 23-9 win over Kansas State.