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Texas DE Breckyn Hager finally gets a hair cut, with a little help from Matthew McConaughey

Breckyn Hager finally got a hair cut.

The Texas senior defensive end and captain made a promise early in his career that he would not cut his hair until the Longhorns won the Big 12 championship. After growing his hair for nearly four years, Texas finally came close to achieving that goal on Dec. 1 at AT&T Stadium, but lost to Oklahoma, 39-27, in the Big 12 title game.

That led to Hager even deleting his Twitter account following the game.

But after the No. 15 Longhorns' 28-21 upset victory over No. 5 Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Jan.