Since the Texas football program rattled off their impressive 2018 campaign that finished with a Sugar Bowl victory over the No. 5 ranked Georgia Bulldogs, head coach Tom Herman had a lot of hype building on the Forty Acres. But a lot of that excitement surrounding the program that built from that massive Sugar Bowl win let to the overwhelming expectations Texas came into the 2019 season with.
Texas entered the 2019 regular season with a top 10 preseason ranking in both the AP and Coaches Poll. That type of standard can be hard for a team on the rise that lost so much production like Texas did ahead of the 2019 season.