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Texas Football: 5 thoughts heading into Big 12 Title Game

By Andrew Miller

AUSTIN, TX - NOVEMBER 17: Members of the Silver Spurs escort Texas Longhorns mascot Bevo XV to the stadium before the game against the Iowa State Cyclones at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on November 17, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
AUSTIN, TX - NOVEMBER 17: Members of the Silver Spurs escort Texas Longhorns mascot Bevo XV to the stadium before the game against the Iowa State Cyclones at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on November 17, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /
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AUSTIN, TX – NOVEMBER 17: Members of the Silver Spurs escort Texas Longhorns mascot Bevo XV to the stadium before the game against the Iowa State Cyclones at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on November 17, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
AUSTIN, TX – NOVEMBER 17: Members of the Silver Spurs escort Texas Longhorns mascot Bevo XV to the stadium before the game against the Iowa State Cyclones at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on November 17, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /

A loaded slate during conference championship week also features a morning kick-off between Texas football and the Oklahoma Sooners to decide the Big 12.

The moment we’ve been waiting for is almost here. Texas football earned its spot in the Big 12 Championship Game by beating the Kansas Jayhawks in Black Friday to round out the regular season. With that win over Kansas, Texas football heads into the Big 12 Championship Game with a record of 9-3 (7-2 Big 12).

There’s a lot of motivating factors for Texas football to knock off the Oklahoma Sooners to win its first Big 12 Title since 2009. Oklahoma since ran the Big 12, including three-straight conference titles. Texas football came very close to claiming a Big 12 Championship back in 2013, in Mack Brown’s final year on the Forty Acres.

A lot has changed since Texas was so close to stunning the rest of the field and winning the Big 12 in 2013. Brown was just hired to take over for the North Carolina Tar Heels. And head Texas football coach Tom Herman picked the Horns up out of a nearly 10-year slump that goes back to the 2010 season. Herman heads into conference championship week with the same record in Big 12 play that Brown’s last year, at 7-2.

This team has a different feeling than any other did in the last eight seasons for the Horns. Herman is building something that should put the Texas football program in national contention from the word go next season. The 2019 campaign is where the stakes are very high for the Horns and a spot in the College Football Playoff is a somewhat realistic expectation.

Before we can look ahead to the expectations for the Horns next year, we’re looking to get through the 2018 campaign with some major accomplishments. That list of accolades comes down to three different goals. Those three accomplishments could encompass a Big 12 Title, New Year’s Six berth, and a double-digit win season. Beating the Sooners twice in one year would just be a nice added bonus.

Here’s a look at the five thoughts for the Texas Longhorns with the regular season in the books and the Big 12 Championship Game looming on Dec. 1.

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