The infamous Texas Longhorns offseason hype train arguably hit top speed last week, courtesy of former Ohio State Buckeye head coach Urban Meyer.
“I think Texas, you didn’t mention them, but don’t sleep on Texas this year,” Meyer said on Urban’s Take with Tim May. “I was talking to (Ohio State associate AD) Mark Pantoni and I was talking to the recruiting director at Ohio State. Man for man, roster against roster, it’s hard to say Texas doesn’t have the best roster in college football.”
While determining the “best” roster in college football is a highly subjective enterprise, there are less subjective ways of comparing programs across the sport that point to the limitations of making such claims about the Longhorns entering the third year under head coach Steve Sarkisian.