Texas entered the season proclaiming Big 12 title aspirations. Once again, Texas failed to look the part of a title-caliber team, and achieving that feat will now be even more difficult with Texas notching an early-season loss.
Here are a few takeaways from Texas’ second underwhelming performance in as many weeks.
- Texas once again committed entirely too many penalties. Rather than improving upon their lackluster effort against TTU, in which Texas committed 10 penalties for 100 yards, the Horns were even worse off on Saturday against TCU. The opening period saw Texas commit seven penalties, which now stands as the most penalized quarter of the Tom Herman era, and more notably, many of those penalties were costly.