The final season in the Big 12 for the No. 3 Texas Longhorns gives them an opportunity to change some of the narrative about their time in the league, especially the matchup against the No. 24 Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin.
In 2016, the overtime loss on the road to a one-win Kansas team brought with it thousands of jokes and effectively signaled the end of the Charlie Strong era. Five years later in Steve Sarkisian’s first year as the head coach, the overtime loss at home not only ended the Longhorns’ hopes at a bowl that year, it was yet another embarrassment in a long series of frustrating games in what was supposed to be the new era of Texas football.