Texas Football: Ranking 7 worst Longhorns teams since 2000

Just missed the cut

All throughout the 2010’s for Mack Brown, Texas football was underachieving by its usual standards. Mack wasn’t even getting it done in Big 12 play anymore. After the turn of the decade following that 2009 BCS National Championship Game loss to Alabama, the Longhorns never won more than nine game under Brown.

There were two eight win seasons and one nine win season for Mack in the early 2010’s. He then left the coaching ranks with the Longhorns in 2013 for the tough era with Charlie Strong on campus. To a certain degree, every season under Brown from 2010-2013 could have consideration for this list.

Tom Herman only has two seasons under his belt on the Forty Acres, which makes it difficult to judge a complete body of work. The first season for Herman with the Longhorns was mostly a work in progress for him. There were also a few three loss seasons with bowl losses for Mack during the glorious years in the 2000’s.

A lot of how this list was formulated had to do with the actual results of each individual season compared to expectations heading into the fall. Not all of these season ranked out here only have to do with wins or the poll slotting by season’s end. Rivalry wins and losses, expectation letdowns, and postseason results all play a role here too.