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Top 5 Texas Football Non-Conference Losses To Be Avenged

By James Caldwell

Sep 5, 2015; South Bend, IN, USA; Notre Dame Fighting Irish line squares off against the Texas Longhorns at Notre Dame Stadium. Notre Dame defeats Texas 38-3. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 5, 2015; South Bend, IN, USA; Notre Dame Fighting Irish line squares off against the Texas Longhorns at Notre Dame Stadium. Notre Dame defeats Texas 38-3. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports /
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Nov 19, 2016; Columbia, SC, USA; A South Carolina Gamecocks cheerleader celebrates a touchdown against the Western Carolina Catamounts in the first quarter at Williams-Brice Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 19, 2016; Columbia, SC, USA; A South Carolina Gamecocks cheerleader celebrates a touchdown against the Western Carolina Catamounts in the first quarter at Williams-Brice Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports /

(5) South Carolina Gamecocks. There are a handful of teams that Texas Football has played only once in their history and lost to. The list of 0-1 records against teams that still play major college football is Air Force, Harvard, Minnesota, Northwestern, the aforementioned N.C. State and Virginia Tech, and South Carolina.

We will see Minnesota and Northwestern later in our series in the “Been A Long Time” games. Harvard is another team that Texas lost to nearly 100 years ago. And, Air Force is a strange game from the 1985 Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston.

So, for #5 on our list, we picked the South Carolina Gamecocks for a Big 12 vs. SEC matchup.

The Longhorns have only played South Carolina one time – a home loss in the 1957 season. The significance was Darrel Royal’s first season and Royal’s first-ever loss. Remember earlier in our list how Texas beat Georgia in Coach Royal’s first-ever Texas game in 1957? Two weeks later, the Longhorns lost at home to the Gamecocks.

Texas’s loss to South Carolina in 1957 was just as strange as the Horns’ loss to North Carolina State in 1999. S.C. opened the scoring with a Pick Six TD only 15 seconds into the game. Texas then scored the next 21 points to take a 21-7 lead into the fourth quarter. But, S.C. scored three TDs in the fourth quarter to win 27-21. It was an odd way for Coach Royal to lose his first game in Austin.

Texas and South Carolina never played before and have never played since then. Texas needs to avenge Coach Brown’s final loss against Oregon and it’s time to avenge Coach Royal’s first loss against South Carolina.

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