Former Texas football cornerback Aaron Ross is one of the more underrated players from this program over the course of the 2000’s. Texas shined as a football program during the 2000’s, under the direction of former head coach Mack Brown. They won a BCS National Championship in the 2006 Rose Bowl, and nearly won another title over the Alabama Crimson Tide to cap the 2009 season. But a key injury to former star quarterback Colt McCoy halted Texas in their tracks in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game.
One year after the Texas Longhorns football program beat the USC Trojans in the 2006 Rose Bowl to claim their first national title of the new century, they came in with high expectations.