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The Texas Longhorns football program represents the University of Texas at Austin (variously "Texas" or "UT") in American football. It is part of the wider Longhorns athletics program and competes at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level as a member of the Southeastern Conference.
The program has been recognized as one of the most elite in college football. Texas began competing in 1893. The Longhorns claim four consensus national championships (1963, 1969, 1970, and 2005), and have been lead by three Hall of Fame coaches in their history. Dana X. Bible coached from 1936 to 1946, compiling a 63–31–3 record. Darrell Royal won three of Texas' national championships during his tenure from 1957 to 1976. Head coach Mack Brown won 158 games and a national championship between 1998 and 2013. Two Longhorn players have been awarded the Heisman Trophy, running backs Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams in 1977 and 1998, respectively.
Texas has an overall record of 975–397–33, the seventh best win–loss record in Division I FBS, and ranks fifth in all-time total victories. Texas has won 31 conference championships and appeared in 63 postseason bowl games. The program has 27 seasons with ten wins or more and 34 total bowl victories. the Longhorns hold the record for most Southwest Conference championships at 25 and Cotton Bowl Classic appearances at 23. Through the 2025 season, the Associated Press (AP) ranks Texas tenth in all-time final AP Poll appearances with 53. The program has also produced one hundred First Team All-Americans (63 consensus and 27 unanimous) and 387 NFL draftees since 1938.
Since 1924, the Longhorns have played their home games at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, the ninth largest stadium in the world. The team is represented by their live mascot, Bevo, a Texas Longhorn steer with burnt orange and white coloring. Win or lose, Longhorns fans and players sing 'The Eyes of Texas' before and after every game, alongside their fight song, 'Texas Fight'.
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Beginning in 1893, the Texas Longhorns football program is one of the most highly regarded and historic programs of all time. From 1936 to 1946 the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Dana X. Bible, and then from 1957 to 1976 the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Darrell K Royal, who won three national championships. The first championship was in 1963 (11–0 record, culminating with a Cotton Bowl victory over No. 2 Navy) and the second in 1969 (11–0 record, including a victory over No. 2 Arkansas in the "Game of the Century" and a Cotton Bowl victory over Notre Dame). From 1998 to 2013, the Longhorns were coached by Mack Brown. During Brown's tenure, Texas won two Big 12 Conference championships, and a national championship in 2005 (13–0 record, including a victory over USC in the Rose Bowl). Texas last appeared in a national championship game in 2009, losing to Alabama.
In 2009, ESPN ranked Texas as the seventh-most prestigious college football program since 1936. In 2012, the football program was valued at $805 million, more than the calculated value of several NFL teams. Texas is known for their post-season appearances, ranking second in number of bowl game appearances (55), fourth in bowl game victories (29), most Southwest Conference football championships (27), and most Cotton Bowl Classic appearances and victories. Other NCAA records include 108 winning seasons out of 122 total seasons, 24 seasons with 10 or more wins, 9 undefeated seasons, and 26 seasons with at most one loss or tie. From 1936 to 2012, the Longhorns football teams have been in the AP or coaches' rankings 66 out of 76 seasons (86.8% of the time), finishing those seasons ranked in the top twenty-five 48 times and the top ten 28 times. Texas claims four Division I-A national championships (1963, 1969, 1970 and 2005) and 33 conference championships (4 Big 12 Conference, 27 Southwest Conference, and 2 Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association).
A total of 129 (53 consensus and 22 unanimous) Texas players have been named to College Football All-America Teams, while two Longhorn players, Earl Campbell (1977) and Ricky Williams (1998), have won the Heisman Trophy, "College football's most prestigious individual honor". Seventeen Longhorns have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, while four are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
At the start of the 2019 season, Texas' all-time record was 909–371–33 (.705), which ranked as the third-most wins. By the end of the season, Texas' record was 916–375–33 (.704), losing a spot and dropping to fourth in NCAA Division I FBS overall history.
In July 2021, after 25 seasons as members of the Big 12, Texas and rival Oklahoma accepted invitations to join the Southeastern Conference (SEC) no later than the 2025 season. In February 2023, the Big 12 announced that the two schools had negotiated a combined $100 million early termination fee in order to leave for the SEC a year before the schools' media rights deal with the Big 12 was set to expire. The Longhorns football team continued competing in the Big 12 through the 2023 season before moving to the SEC in 2024.
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