Texas Football: 5 Things Longhorns Should Improve vs UTEP

Texas football is coming off their biggest season opening win in years and has set themselves up to make a run in 2016. They face a difficult stretch of games in the coming weeks, but first they have to take care of business against UTEP in Week 2.

This is definitely the most winnable game on Texas’ schedule in the first half of the season. The Miners are the only non-Power 5 team on the Longhorns’ schedule this season and provide a nice buffer between the highs of the season-opener and a grueling stretch at Cal, at Oklahoma State, and against Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.

But Texas should not overlook this UTEP team. While the Horns come into the game as 29 point favorites, this game is an opportunity to build more momentum moving forward. The win against Notre Dame was great and exciting, but there are definitely areas where this team has room to grow.

The Miners, no offense, present a perfect opportunity to tune up. Texas has raised the level of expectations on this season astronomically after the Notre Dame win. They can’t rest on their laurels this week if they hope to get where they want to be. This is an opportunity to improve as a team and the Horns must attack it as such.

Charlie Strong and his coaching staff aren’t going to be satisfied after their season opening win and that attitude will permeate to the roster. Every week is a chance to get better and Texas’ young roster needs to take advantage of any opportunity to grow.

With that being said, here are five things we would like to see Texas improve on in Week 2 against UTEP.

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