Texas Football: Ranking every starting quarterback from the last decade

A definitive ranking of the seven starting quarterbacks for the Texas football program from the last decade highlights the ups and downs from that position.

A long and winding road took the Texas football program to where they are today with the junior star quarterback Sam Ehlinger to conclude the 2019 season. But getting to Ehlinger took a long time and a lot of failed starting quarterbacks through three different coaching regimes.

On this ranking, I’m taking a look back at each quarterback that started in at least three games for the Texas program over the course of the last decade. This list will go back to the beginning of the 2010 season. In 2010, Texas was coming off a BCS National Championship Game loss to head coach Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide where Mack Brown saw his team catch brutal luck.

Former Texas star quarterback Colt McCoy was knocked out of the national title game against the Crimson Tide early in the first quarter. That McCoy injury threw the former highly touted five-star quarterback recruit and then true freshman Garrett Gilbert into the fire way too early.

Since that 2009 BCS National Championship Game loss to the Crimson Tide, Texas just wasn’t the same. Gilbert pretty much drowned any contention hopes Texas had during the 2010 and 2011 seasons. He wound up getting benched pretty early on in what looked to be a promising quarterback career on the Forty Acres. Gilbert transferred to play for the SMU Mustangs for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

Between Gilbert’s end on the Forty Acres to where Texas is at under Ehlinger at this moment, where do all the relevant starting quarterbacks for this program rank?

Here’s a deeper look into the definitive ranking of the starting quarterbacks for the Texas Longhorns football program during the 2010’s.