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Josh Pate of CBS Sports and Late Kick fame has ranked his Top 12 college football programs in the nation. Last week on the Josh Pate College Football Show, he ranked the programs in the SEC. Texas came in second after No. 1 Georgia.
Pate ranks the teams based on a four-year rolling blend of criteria:-Talent acquisition (recruiting focused)-On Field results with more weight to recent success-Resource pool of program/university-Organizational stability from coaches to administration
So where does Texas fit in? Pate ranks Texas No. 4 in the country. The Longhorns are behind the Bulldogs, Ohio State and Michigan. He credits Texas for 25 wins over the past two seasons, which certainly checks the recent success box.
But Pate says Texas gets knocked down some in the four-year view. “If you go back over the four years, there’s a losing season baked into there because Sark (Texas coach Steve Sarkisian) had just gotten there.” Pate says he puts even more weight on UT’s recent success because it is Sark is responsible for the upturn.
Talent acquisition is an area Texas is thriving at right now according to the CBS analyst. “They’re stacking talent. They’ve got four top six classes in a row,” he says. “If you notice the names they keep adding there, organizationally, top notch. They’re loaded, but yet they haven’t won anything. And so they keep loading up.”
That lack of an SEC or national title might give Texas an advantage. “There’s this different hunger and energy and kind of even a starvation, not just hunger, for tasting what Georgia has tasted, Alabama tasted, Ohio State just tasted, Michigan tasted recently,”
Overall, Pate thinks a lot of the overall Texas Longhorns program. “I am high on Texas, man,” he said. “They’re as high as you can be without having won any of they conference or playoff hardware that these other teams…
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Author : Longhorns Wire
Publish date : 2025-02-24 14:49:00
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