Texas Football: How former coaches fared elsewhere in Week 1

A host of former head and assistant coaches for the Texas football program were in game action elsewhere this past weekend.

There are a multitude of other former assistant and head coaches from the Texas football program that have jobs elsewhere now that kicked off their 2019 regular season schedules last weekend. Just like Texas, most of the country was trying to get off on the right foot after the long college football offseason came to an end for the first full week of action.

Two former head coaches of the Texas football program were coaching elsewhere in Week 1 of the 2019 college football regular season. There’s a handful of other assistants that are coaching elsewhere now too. One prominent former Texas coordinator was getting his first game action as a head coach down in South Florida.

In this list, I’ll be covering any relevant assistant coaches of late for Texas and any that became head coaches at the Division 1 level (whether it be FBS or FCS). That can include a lengthy list with the coaching trees for Texas going all the way back to memorable 1990’s head coach John Mackovic.

For the past two seasons, legendary coaches returning to the college ranks became a new trend. Herm Edwards joined the Arizona State Sun Devils and Chip Kelly linked up with the UCLA Bruins. Neither is doing particularly well thus far. The Kansas Jayhawks also made the move to bring in former LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles post-David Beaty.

Here’s a look into how the former coaches of the Texas Longhorns football program fared around the college football landscape in Week 1 of the 2019 regular season.