Texas Football: 3 times Baylor flipped a key Longhorns commit

Most of the focus at this point of the offseason on the Forty Acres will fall on the 2022 Texas football recruiting class. We are just weeks away from the start of official visit season. This will be the first time that official visits are held in a large quantity in more than a full calendar year. A lot of big-time prospects will be making decisions largely based on how visits go this summer.

New head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns will have a lot to do to prepare for official visit season to begin next month. But they should also reflect on what changed around the college football recruiting landscape in the past 12-15 months. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the way that recruiting is done in all major college sports likely changed for good.

Texas will have to compete with other Big 12 foes on the recruiting trail in more creative ways than they have in the past. Recruiting is a gig that is constantly evolving, but that process largely sped up during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Texas football adapting to the new recruiting landscape

Taking to alternative methods such as flipping commitments of key Big 12 foes, finding gems in the NCAA Transfer Portal, and hosting virtual visits, will continue to be a way for programs to stack their roster at the college level. And that’s something that Texas did well so far this offseason.

I personally have taken a look back at some of the bigger triumphs and defeats for the Longhorns on the recruiting trail with their Big 12 rivals of late. One particular foe that tends to get intertwined with the Longhorns often on the recruiting trail is the Baylor Bears. I’ve already looked into three times that the Longhorns have flipped key Bears commits in recent memory.

On the other end of it, let’s take a look at three times Baylor flipped key Longhorns commits in recent memory.