Texas Football: National spotlight falling on 2006 Rose Bowl re-run

The 2006 Rose Bowl game that decided the National Champion will be re-aired on ESPN for fans of the Texas football program on April 2.

While we sit in the midst of a novel coronavirus pandemic-induced sports hiatus right now, fans of the Texas football program have to find something to entertain themselves. Thankfully this Texas program has a lot of great games to look back on during this quiet period thanks to the COVID-19 spread.

Fans of the Texas Longhorns football program will get their opportunity to relive maybe the greatest game to ever happen in this team’s history on April 2. ESPN will be airing the re-run of the 2006 Rose Bowl/BCS National Championship Game against the USC Trojans on Thursday night at 8 p.m. CT.

There’s a lot of hype going around the college football landscape just about this re-air. ESPN’s official college football Twitter page keeps getting posts with anticipation and look backs on this game from January 2006.

Former Texas head coach (that led this team to a national title from the 2005 season) Mack Brown had a video that surfaced on the ESPN College Football Twitter page on April 2. In that video, he was shown “telling a story that you probably haven’t heard”.

But Mack is not the only one that is getting excited for what’s to come during this re-air on April 2. Legendary former Texas quarterback Vince Young is also getting hyped up on a post that appeared on an ESPN college football page on Twitter on April 2.

VY was the one who brought the national title back to the Forty Acres in early 2006. His final touchdown run on a key 4th-and-5 play late in the fourth quarter won it for the Longhorns.

Even ESPN college football media personality and former Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Kirk Herbstreit is getting hyped up on Twitter for this game. Herbie gave a brief look into what is to come in this re-air with a post on his Twitter timeline on April 2.

This 2006 Rose Bowl was maybe the best game in the history of televised college football. It is also the highest rated game in college football television history, surpassing the 2010 BCS National Championship Game in which the Longhorns faced the Alabama Crimson Tide.