AUSTIN, Texas -- For Kent Perkins, sitting in a dorm room on Oct. 3 and watching Texas football was truly torture.
The starting right tackle was out with a knee injury and couldn’t travel with the team. And like most Longhorns fans, he couldn’t take watching the 50-7 loss to TCU. He hated not being there, but he also didn’t like what he was seeing.
“I think the third quarter was when I got really mad,” Perkins said. “And I was like, 'Man …' So I turned it off. When I saw the fourth quarter I was like, 'Dang.