Dating back to the time Tom Herman and his staff first stepped foot on the Forty Acres, the Texas Longhorns have checked several boxes that remained blank prior to the 2017 campaign. While that process began as early November 2016 with an entirely new — and thus far, improved — culture cultivated from scratch, the results are becoming very real essentially each time Texas takes the field.
In 2017, the burnt orange nation aspired to see Texas take a step forward in the win column and remain competitive with the nation’s elite.
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That season-long effort ended with the program’s first winning season since the Mack Brown era in 2013, and the first bowl victory since 2012.