Texas football: Assembling the all-time Mack Brown team
One of the best and most successful head coaches in the last few decades for the Texas football program is Mack Brown. The longtime Texas head coach that spent 16 years with the program, from 1998-2013, accomplished a lot during his time on the Forty Acres.
Brown won one National Championship during his time at Texas while taking the Longhorns to two BCS National Championship Games. Texas also had seven top-10 finishes in the AP Poll, two Big 12 Championships, six Big 12 South division titles, and nearly 20 Consensus First-Team AP All-Americans in the 16 seasons under Mack.
Since the Longhorns and Brown parted ways after the 2013 season, Texas hasn’t found the same level of success year in and year out. In the 10 years since Texas and Mack parted ways, the Longhorns have hired three different head coaches and have only won double-digit games in a season once.
It does appear the Longhorns are trending in the right direction again under third-year head coach Steve Sarkisian, a full decade after Mack’s departure from the Forty Acres.
Vince Young leads the way for Mack Brown’s all-time Texas football team
There are plenty of fond times to reflect on Mack’s tenure on the 40. Here’s a look at the all-time Texas team under Brown.
Vince Young, QB
The legendary Vince Young is not only the best quarterback of the Brown era on the Forty Acres but the best at the position in program history. Young was one of the most electric playmakers of the 2000s. He was arguably the most exciting quarterback in college football during that decade.
Young had numerous legendary moments on the 40, most notably the fourth-down run that led the Longhorns to the 2006 Rose Bowl/BCS National Championship Game win over the No. 1 USC Trojans.
The impossible task that opposing defenses had of preparing to face Young made Texas lethal when he was the starting quarterback during the 2004 and 2005 seasons.