A little more than 25 months have come and gone since Joe Tessitore profoundly proclaimed, “Texas is back, folks.”
Of course, he couldn’t have been more wrong.
The No. 10 Notre Dame team that Texas topped in double overtime, 50-47, was anything but a top 10 team, finishing at 4-8, and the Longhorns weren’t much better. After outlasting the Fighting Irish and climbing as high as No. 11 in the AP Top 25, the Longhorns lost seven of their next 11 games, including a 24-21 overtime loss to Kansas that effectively ended the Charlie Strong era and still looms large throughout the Twittersphere.