Texas Football: Fox Sports mentions Longhorns amid blue blood programs

Fox College Football released released a list of FBS teams with more than 900 wins in their history, and the Texas football program was on it.

College football’s true blue bloods are usually defined by their total number of wins in program history and overall national titles. But it is important that those national titles are earned and not claimed. It is usually taken with a grain of salt when programs won titles before the modern age of college football. As far as the Texas football program goes, they have a number of wins closing in on quadruple digits in its 118-year history.

A list released from Fox Sports “Fox College Football” Twitter page on May 4 highlighted the very few programs that have more than 900 FBS wins in their history. And the Texas Longhorns football program was one of seven programs included on that list. A list like this one should essentially include only college football’s blue blood programs.

There was one other school present from the Big 12 in this post, the rival Oklahoma Sooners. Texas and Oklahoma are really the only two blue blood programs left in the Big 12, especially once the Nebraska Cornhuskers bolted from the conference to join the Big Ten almost a decade ago.

The other five programs that were included here are the Ohio State Buckeyes, Michigan Wolverines, Alabama Crimson Tide, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and Nebraska.

Two of the programs on that list have won College Football Playoff National Championships (Ohio State and Alabama). And an additional two were able to get BCS National Championships (Texas and Oklahoma). The last national title for Nebraska came in 1997, one year before the BCS started. Notre Dame and Michigan are also going on rather long stints without a national title, but are traditional powers in the college football landscape.

Texas has four national titles that aren’t claimed. Their last came in the 2006 Rose Bowl where they knocked off head coach Pete Carroll and the USC Trojans to get the BCS National Championship under former head coach Mack Brown to cap the 2005 season.