Texas projected to face Tennessee in the Texas Bowl in 2022
While it seems way too early to be thinking about where second-year head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Texas football program project for the postseason in 2022, there will always be lists trying to analyze what will happen. And that is the case with one recent list published by 247Sports this week projecting what bowl season will look like way too early on.
This list from 247Sports had the Longhorns not traveling too far from home for their postseason slot. Texas is projected here to face head coach Josh Heupel and the Tennessee Volunteers in the Texas Bowl to cap this coming season.
The Texas Bowl is usually reserved for one of the teams in the middle of the pack in the Big 12. Last season, the Kansas State Wildcats downed a very short-handed LSU Tigers team in the Texas Bowl by the final score of 42-20. Kansas State finished up the regular season with a record of 7-5 (4-5 Big 12). The win over LSU in the Texas Bowl moved them to eight wins to cap last season.
If Sark and the Longhorns are going to face Heupel and the Vols in the Texas Bowl, that would likely mean that this team finishes in fourth or fifth place in the Big 12 standings. That would largely depend on whether the Big 12 could send a team to the College Football Playoff this coming season.
247Sports projects Steve Sarkisian and Texas football to face Josh Heupel and Tennessee in the Texas Bowl in 2022
A world where Texas finishes up next season with eight wins would surely be an improvement. But that result would still leave something to be desired for Sark and the Longhorns heading into the 2023 offseason.
Yet, we still have a long way to go until the 2022-23 college football bowl season. This type of conjecture isn’t very helpful at the moment for the Longhorns.
It is interesting, though, to hypothesize how the Longhorns faithful would feel about potentially finishing up with an eight-win season by downing Heupel and Tennessee in the Texas Bowl. Texas and Tennessee would always make for a hotly contested game between two blue blood programs.
Sark and the Longhorns obviously will have their main goal of the 2022 season finishing up with a much-improved record. That would mean at least a two or three-win improvement realistically compared to last season.
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Texas finished up last season with a record of 5-7 (3-6 Big 12), causing them to miss the postseason for the first time since 2016. Now, Sark and the Longhorns will be looking to improve this fall with a tough non-conference schedule out of the gates with opponents on tap such as the UTSA Roadrunners and Alabama Crimson Tide.