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Texas Football: Daniel Young’s role in the backfield increasingly crucial

Injuries taking hold is a factor that no college football team wants into fall camp. With fall practice lying so close to the beginning of the regular season, that is one of the worst times for the injury bug to strike. That will also be the case for the Texas football program heading into the 2019 regular season since the first two weeks don’t feature easy opponents.

In Week 1, the Texas Longhorns football program takes on the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs at home on Aug. 31. Louisiana Tech is a quality opponent for a Group of Five season opener.