Despite the Longhorn Network’s best efforts to make me re-watch the 2006 Rose Bowl for a mind-numbing five-millionth time, I escaped the trap of living in the past and focused my sights on the present.
That’s right, Texas is back... in a New Year’s Six Bowl, the type of bowl game that should be the basement for this program moving forward under Tom Herman.
So I prepared the only way a person with way too much time on his hands can: I re-watched the SEC and Big 12 Championship games while skimming through the pages of the Allstate Sugar Bowl media guide, and then I began to read some of the national narratives surrounding a game with many so different storylines and characteristics.