Texas Football: 12 biggest villains in Longhorns history

4. Barry Switzer

We’ve already covered one former Oklahoma head coach in this piece of the biggest Longhorns villains in program history. And we’ve got another here with the legendary ex-Oklahoma head coach, and also a Dallas Cowboys former head coach, Barry Switzer. A coach that led very successful regimes in college and the NFL was a thorn in the side of the Longhorns for a good while.

The career record that Switzer posted as the Sooners head coach sat at 157-29-4. That is one of the better records of any head coach at any blue blood program in college football history. He actually holds the fourth best winning percentage of any college football FBS head coach in the modern age.

Switzer was Oklahoma’s head coach from 1973-1988. And he was their offensive coordinator from 1966-1972 previous to being named the Oklahoma head coach. Last but not least, before that Switzer was a center/linebacker with the Arkansas football program in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.

Two of the longest droughts that Texas had in terms of number of years between wins in the Red River series were under Switzer’s wing at Oklahoma. He took over for ex-OU head coach Chuck Fairbanks in the early 1970’s, and continued an eventual six-game streak with all losses or ties for the Longhorns in Red River. He also had a five-game winning streak over the Longhorns in the 1980’s.

What added salt to the wound for all the times that Oklahoma beat Texas at certain points during Switzer’s tenure as head coach is the fact that he won three National Championships during that span.