After their first SEC game and win in the books, the No. 1 Texas Longhorns come out of the season’s first bye week geared up to compete in the most dominant conference in college football, a conference that was flipped upside down last weekend with Texas now sitting as the only undefeated team in the SEC and once again ranked atop the AP Top 25 poll.
Back in 2021 when Texas and Oklahoma made the announcement that they’d be moving to the SEC, many speculated that the Longhorns would struggle and the Sooners would thrive. But just like getting hot in the fourth quarter, the program’s trajectories shifted in the wake of Texas hiring head coach Steve Sarkisian and Oklahoma starting to stumble after Lincoln Riley left for USC.