After the five-game season-opening stretch that saw the No. 2 Texas Longhorns beat every opponent by at least 19 points, the smallest margin of which came against the then-No. 10 Michigan Wolverines, head coach Steve Sarkisian’s team heads into its first bye week as comparatively healthy, in his words, before a season-defining stretch of games against the No. 19 Oklahoma Sooners in Dallas and the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs in Austin.
During Sarkisian’s Monday press conference, he noted the need to get fresh and healthy during the bye week, influencing the decision to practice Tuesday and Wednesday, lift on Friday morning, and then give the players the rest of the weekend off to visit family, rest, and spend some time as observers of college football.