On Saturday night, Shaka Smart and the Texas Longhorns will welcome the West Virginia Mountaineers for their Big 12 home opener. All conference games are critical and tonight represents an opportunity for Texas to start its conference season at 2-0, something that hasn’t happened for the Horns since 2011. The fact that it also happens to run concurrently with a Dallas Cowboys playoff game suggests to me that there will be good seats to be had.
For Texas, this has already been a season full of twists and turns, and with Big 12 play underway, there will surely be more ahead.