Texas Football: 10 best RB’s Longhorns faced since 2010

Looking back on the very best running backs that the Texas football program faced in the last decade saw some good defensive performances.

Defining a set of running backs that the Texas football program faced in the last decade, especially in Big 12 play, can be a difficult task. There’s so much firepower on Big 12 offenses that the numbers can get very inflated. That has happened for Texas at times too.

Texas had a lot of solid running backs rolling through the Forty Acres in the last five or 10 years, even with the lack of success in the win column compared to the 2000’s. D’Onta Foreman, Johnathan Gray, Malcolm Brown, Keaontay Ingram, etc. highlighted a running back room that could still have a bright future ahead for the 2020’s too.

This list of top running backs is comprised of those who Texas faced in any game. Texas did have a few seasons where they didn’t play in a bowl game, but those postseason opponents count too.

Individual games for these running backs that faced Texas within the last decade don’t necessarily mean that they would rank higher on the list. Overall talent of running backs in college, especially their individual season stats, played a big role in their placement here.

Given the novel coronavirus pandemic-induced pause to almost all of the sports world at the moment, this is a good time to look back on what happened in recent memory.

Here’s a look into the 10 best running backs that the Texas Longhorns football program faced in the last decade.