Texas Football: 5 blue bloods Longhorns had most success against

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2. Pitt Panthers

Saying that the Pitt Panthers and Texas A&M are blue blood college football programs might not sit well with a lot of the fan bases like the Alabama Crimson Tide, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio State Buckeyes, and Texas. But Pitt and Texas A&M do belong on the list, like I mentioned before, if we’re expanding the list of schools to 20-25 blue bloods.

Pitt actually holds the fifth most national titles of any program in college football history, with a whopping nine. They also rank 42nd among all programs in all-time record, ringing in at 732-539-42.

If you compare side-by-side, Pitt has more than twice the amount of national titles compared to Texas. Just none of them came near as recent as a lot of the success that the Longhorns have found. Pitt’s national titles came mostly from 1915-1937. The most recent came in 1976.

However, the first time that Texas and Pitt faced each other was in 1987 in the Bluebonnet Bowl. Texas would get the edge in that game by the final score of 32-27. That 1987 Longhorns team would finish up with a record of 7-5 (5-2 SWC) under former head coach David McWilliams.

Then former Texas head coach John Mackovic would get a swing at former Pitt head coach Johnny Majors in a home-and-home series in back-to-back years in 1994 and 1995. Texas would narrowly edge out Pitt in both games, by a combined margin of just 13 points.

Those three matchups between the Longhorns and Panthers amount to Texas owning the all-time record 3-0. The last time that Pitt and Texas met saw star quarterback James Brown and running back Ricky Williams got wild on the Panthers defense, to the tune of scoring 38 points.