[212] Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lost a bet with Austin Mayor Will Wynn and had to send a basket of produce, such as avocados, from a local farmers' market; Wynn had bet Texas' finest barbecue. Stephen Pinchback / Houston Athletics. [91], The Longhorns and the Tigers each scored twotouchdowns in the firstquarter, though Missouri missed an extra point to let Texas take a 1413 lead. [65], The game was played in Ohio Stadium, also known as "The Horseshoe"[73] or "the Shoe". 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[118] Young also became one of only sevenplayers in NCAA history to have accumulated over 200yards rushing and 200yards passing in a singlegame. [195], The 2005season marks only the eighthtime in 50years that exactly twoteams have gone into the bowl season undefeated. In the secondquarter, the Red Raiders tied up the game with a field goal before Texas regained the lead with twotouchdown runs by Selvin Young and a touchdown pass to Billy Pittman. [1] Texas students and fans spilled onto the streets of Austin and made their way to campus for an impromptu celebration. [192] The 0.0007% margin separating Texas from USC was the slimmest margin between the top two teams since the inception of BCS rankings. And the new Longhorns coaching staff looks to be "Crimson Tide 2.0" without Nick Saban. [163], For the 2005season, the Rose Bowl also served as the BCS National Championship Game as a result of the Bowl Championship Series agreement. As players circled the stadium giving high-fives and handshakes to fans, a section of the railing collapsed and fans spilled onto the sideline. [103] One of these two teams appeared in four of the nine BCS national championship games from 1999 to 2007. [80] The two schools were once conference foes in the Southwest Conference[81][82] and have maintained a rivalry despite the fact that Texas enjoys a sizable lead in the series. After the game, Colorado Head Coach Gary Barnett said of Young's passing performance, "We can't do that in practice against air. Apr 13, 2005 32,044 72,522 113 Northville, MI. The 2022-23 carousel was relatively quiet for Texas, but Sarkisian did have to make two important hires. An * indicates that the player is a "walk-on" (a non-scholarship player). The extra point attempt by Richmond McGee was no good. In the 95meetings through 2005, Texas' record was 69wins, 22losses, and 4ties. Head Coach. He followed up by running the ball into the end zone for a two-point conversion. The first-place ranking was the first for UT in the BCS era, and the first top ranking in any major football poll since October 8, 1984, when they were atop both the Associated Press and Coaches polls. Prior to the 2005game, Texas held an advantage in the all-time series 55395, which included a 43354 edge in Dallas, but Oklahoma had won the 5previous games, including the two worst losses ever for a Texas team in the series. [150] The Daily Texan predicted that the game could hurt Young's chances for the Heisman, but they also quoted UT head coach Mack Brown as saying "Looking at the numbers from what Reggie Bush did last week and Vince did today, Reggie probably leads, but next week, Vince plays at noon, and Reggie at 3, so I think voters will wait and watch to see what happens. 130means 13wins and zero losses. Do you have a sports website? [200], Analysts labeled the team, their season, and their championship victory as the greatest or among the greatest in the history of the sport. [206] Bush was formerly a Governor of Texas and his daughter Jenna is a UT graduate. With the conclusion of the 2005season, UT posted fiveconsecutive ten-win seasons and eightconsecutive nine-win campaigns for the first time in school history (though seasons are generally longer than in the past). [211] Both governors also offered autographed, handmade cowboy boots that were auctioned to benefit survivors of Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Katrina. [23][50][51] Football's origins in the Northeastern United States have created an expectation that it is a cold-weather sport,[52][53][54][55][56] but the temperature at kickoff was 90F (32C)[57] which is also the average temperature in Austin for the month of September. 2 ranking (behind the defending National Champions, the University of Southern California) by Sports Illustrated magazine, the Associated Press Poll and the USA Today Coaches Poll. [207] On February 14, 2006, Bush did host the team and coaches at the White House. . Texas scored another touchdown and a field goal to make a 2413 lead at halftime. ABC stayed with the Oklahoma vs. A&M game through the final down and then ran threefull minutes of commercials while the Texas vs. Kansas game continued. Numerous publications have cited this victory as standing among the greatest performances in college football history,[3][4][5][6][7] and ESPN awarded the 2006 ESPY Award for the "Best Game" in any sport to the Longhorns and the Trojans. UT drove the ball 99yards in sevenplays for a secondtouchdown. [147] The game was a back-and-forth affair ultimately won by Texas, 4029. The 2005 Texas Longhorn football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season, winning the Big 12 Conference championship and the national championship. The Coaching Legacy at Texas Begins With One Name: Darrell Royal The series, "Welcome to the SEC, Texas" profiles the head coaches who made the Longhorns a national power in college. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. [7] ESPN awarded the two teams the 2006ESPY Award for the "Best Game" in any sport. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. It was the thirdstraight year that Texas trailed Oklahoma State at halftime and came from behind to win by a sizable margin (4728). "[179], Texas' Rose Bowl win was the 800thvictory in school history[180] and it earned the Longhorns their fourthconsensus national championship in football. Only one defensive starter missed a game due to injury. The Longhorns are 5-3 in Tom Herman's fourth season with the program, and a series of close losses have added kindling to the hot-seat rumors. "[152] Melton was criticized for "tiptoeing indecisively". But I'll tell you what, we're all going to drive home 110. This page was last edited on 2 January 2023, at 22:29. [175][176][177] ESPN analysts were virtually unanimous in their declaration of the 2005 USC Trojans as the best offense in the history of college football,[168][175] despite the fact that they were in second place behind Texas in terms of points scored during the season. [214] The school commissioned a painting titled The University of Texas National Championship 2005 by Opie Otterstad to commemorate the win in the Rose Bowl and the National Championship. Royal and Brown have also won national championships with Texas. In the latest On Texas Football, Bobby Burton and Eric Nahlin discussed a variety of Texas Longhorns football topics including coaching vacancies, the upcoming junior day, and what both want to see during the spring. [119] Over the past threemeetings between the twoschools (20032005), the Longhorns outscored the Cowboys by a combined second-half score of 1180. [18], For the fiscal year which ended in August 2005, just as the 2005 football season was starting, Texas was the nation's richest and most profitable football program, with revenue of $53.2 million, and a profit of $38.7 million. Starters are marked with an asterisk (*). The BCS formula took into account strength of schedule so that teams received more credit for beating stronger opponents. This was only the 35thmeeting of the twotop-ranked teams in the history of college football, including both regular season and bowl games. The sophomore didn't have a positive gain of fewer than 5yards and accumulated three runs of 20yards or longer. These royalties went to the university as a whole, not specifically to the athletics programs. [12] It was their fourth national championship in football[13] and the ninth perfect season in the history of Longhorn football. The Texas men play at Baylor Saturday while the women visit Oklahoma in a battle of first-place teams. "[219] On January 15, 2006, 51,244Texas fans gathered in Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium to celebrate the team and their victorious season. [121], The Longhorns first played the Baylor Bears in 1901 and have faced them annually since both were members of the Southwest Conference. "[130] ABC then broke away from their coverage at halftime to broadcast other events. . [45], Three Longhorns, freshman running backs Michael Houston and Jerrell Wilkerson and sophomore defensive back Bobby Tatum, elected to transfer prior to UT's bowl game. Though police were out in force, there were no reports of problems. However, USC remained atop both human polls and was able to reclaim the top overall ranking. In the fourth quarter, Taylor scored his fourthtouchdown and backup quarterback Matt Nordgren scored on an odd play where he was hit and fumbled while scrambling for the goal line but the ball traveled forward at about the same speed he was running and bounced right back up into his hands. [87], In the second half, each team scored onefield goal and one touchdown, although Texas missed their extra point so they won the game 5110. All three were reserve players. Unless there are exactly two unbeaten teams, both from BCS conferences, the choice of the top twoteams can generate controversy. They are led by head coach Mike White, in his 4th season at Texas. Their home record under Mack Brown improved to 39wins and 3losses. [227] The team topped the merchandise rankings again for the 20062007 fiscal year. [100] Those losses had helped build a reputation that Mack Brown was not capable of winning in "Big Games". The team's penultimate victory of the season, the Big 12 Championship Game, featured the biggest margin of victory in the history of that contest. The Longhorns also were the first team to beat the Buckeyes in a night game at The Horseshoe and it was UT's 10thstraight victory in a night-game road contest. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. Royal is the all-time leader in games coached (219), years coached (20) and total wins (167). The UT athletics department found no reason to discipline the players and they both played in the final game of the season. It should also be noted that Vince Young predicted that the Longhorns would return to the Rose Bowl next season in a post game interview where he proclaimed, "We'll be back!" I work at UT and I can tell you that they indedd only care about their longhorns.But I have come across some jackass UT fans who love to talk about LSU. [95][96], Since 1912 the teams have played the game at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, Texas, amid the atmosphere of the adjacent Texas State Fair. [92][93] Though officially called the Red River Rivalry,[94] it remains better known by its traditional name, the Red River Shootout; the 2005 match-up was the 100th in the series. This left thousands of UT fans who assembled to watch the game in Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium stranded without coverage for much of the game. [62] True freshman running back Henry Melton also saw his firstaction and scored his firsttouchdown at the college level. [17] In addition, Brandon Foster, Marcus Griffin, Nate Jones and Derek Lokey agreed to sign free-agent contracts with NFL teams. Texas won the 2005game 620[123] making it the only shutout of the 2005season for the Longhorns. 10h Pete Thamel. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. [88], Sportscasters touted the contest with the Missouri Tigers as a showcase between of the two best dual-threat quarterbacks playing in college football, pitting Missouri quarterback Brad Smith against Vince Young of Texas. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. 5 All-time series records. [106], UT was favored by 14points[107][108] and won the game by 33 points,[106] tying the biggest margin of victory for the Longhorns in the history of the rivalry, a 407 victory in 1941. 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