Texas Football: 3 times the Horns flipped a key OU commit

Newly hired head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Texas football program made news on the recruiting trail of late with their persistent efforts to try and flip the commitment of a key four-star Oklahoma Sooners wide receiver pledge. Four-star Garland 6-foot-1 and 180 pound wide receiver Jordan Hudson held a commitment with Oklahoma’s 2022 recruiting class since last summer, but Texas is pulling out all the stops to try and get him flipped to their 2022 class.

Sark and the Longhorns are building a very solid 2022 class at the moment, with multiple blue chip commits he’s landed since he was hired as head coach back on Jan. 2. There was a big spark in general for the Longhorns 2022 and 2023 classes after the hiring of Sark to replace the former head coach Tom Herman more than three months ago.

But Sark does need to show that he can out-recruit and out-develop Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley in the coming years and recruiting cycles. Texas did well in most of the past few recruiting cycles to get a higher-ranked class than the Sooners, but player development is a hot-button topic that the Longhorns didn’t do so well with in the last decade or so.

Past successes vs. OU on the trail for Texas football

During the offseason, the biggest rivalries that the Longhorns have exist on the recruiting trail with competitors like the Sooners and Texas A&M Aggies. Texas is the hottest of those three programs on the recruiting trail of late for their 2022 and 2023 classes, but sustaining that success will be key.

The Longhorns have proven in the past that they can either out-recruit or even flip the commitments of key Oklahoma prospects, which might be something they could do again with the talented wideout Hudson.

With all of that in mind, here’s a look back at three times in the past in which the Longhorns flipped a key OU commit.