Texas Football: Ranking 7 worst Longhorns teams since 2000
1. 2016
Record: 5-7 (3-6 Big 12)
Postseason Result: Missed bowl game
As I mentioned before, picking between the 2010 and 2016 Texas football season as to which one was the worst since 2000 is pretty hard. The Longhorns were very bad, at had a lot of embarrassing moments, in both five win seasons. At least 2015 had wins over quality opponents and left a handful of fans with a small degree of hope.
However, 2016 left Longhorns fans with little to no hope until Charlie Strong was ousted to bring in Tom Herman from Houston. That was largely because Strong and his squad couldn’t even beat a hapless Kansas team on the road to reach bowl eligibility in the regular season finale. Kansas wound up tearing down the field goal posts in Lawrence that night.
The interesting part about the 2016 campaign was how it started compared to how it ended. Texas got off on the right foot with what seemed like the win that could bring the program “back”. The Longhorns knocked off the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in double overtime at home in Week 1.
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Reality quickly hit the Longhorns when Strong lost three straight at the outset of Big 12 play against Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, and Cal. Wins over Iowa State, Baylor, and Texas Tech only mitigated the damage before Texas lost its final three games of the regular season to West Virginia, TCU, and lowly Kansas.