Texas Football makes ESPN’s Bottom 10 after TCU loss
The placement for the Texas football program on ESPN’s Bottom 10 for Week 6 was not ideal, but is pretty accurate following their loss to TCU.
With such a big game on tap this weekend for both Texas football and the Oklahoma Sooners, you would think that each team would be sitting in a better spot early in the 2020 college football season. But instead, Texas and Oklahoma come into the annual Red River Rivalry game this weekend with a combined record in Big 12 play of 1-3.
Texas alone comes into the game with a record of 2-1 (1-1 Big 12) after having fallen short to head coach Gary Patterson and the TCU Horned Frogs in their Big 12 home opener back on Oct. 3 by the frustrating final score of 33-31. The two wins so far this season for the Longhorns came over the Texas Tech Red Raiders in their Big 12 opener
And Oklahoma comes into this game with a record of 1-2 (0-2 Big 12) following two straight rough games to open up the conference schedule. They’ve fallen short in back-to-back weeks against the Kansas State Wildcats and Iowa State Cyclones. This is the first two-game losing streak for Oklahoma in Big 12 play since 1999.
It’s weird to see Texas and Oklahoma both barely hanging on by their fingernails to College Football Playoff contention in this day and age this early in a season. Last year, Texas and Oklahoma were both alive and well at this point of the season in the College Football Playoff and Big 12 Title races.
On the Texas side of the discussion, there’s not a whole lot of excitement or momentum in their favor heading into the weekend. ESPN even named Texas in their Bottom 10 this week following the tough loss to the Horned Frogs from last weekend. Texas got the nickname “Schnook ‘Em” in the Bottom 10 this week.
This piece from ESPN had this to say on the matter of Texas in the Bottom 10.
"Then-ninth-ranked Texas lost to then-unranked TCU by two points, becoming the fourth Big 12 team to sit in the Coveted Fifth Spot this season, joining Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State and Oklahoma. Speaking of Oklahoma, does it get much more 2020 than the fact that these probably would have been the cheapest off-the-street Red River Rivalry tickets available in years after a bummer weekend for both Texas and Oklahoma?"
Texas holds the all-time Red River series edge over Oklahoma with a record of 62-48-5. But Oklahoma has won the last two in this series, dating back to the 2018 Big 12 Championship Game. The 2018 regular season was the last Red River triumph for the Longhorns.
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The only other Big 12 team present this week in the Bottom 10 was the lowly winless Kansas Jayhawks. Even the likes of Oklahoma wasn’t on this list after losing their first two games in Big 12 in dramatic fashion on interceptions from redshirt freshman quarterback Spencer Rattler.