A very weird season for the Texas football program, and the rest of the Big 12 in general, started in September 2008. In that once promising 2008 campaign, former Texas head coach Mack Brown and star quarterback Colt McCoy
The 2008 team for the Texas Longhorns football program was arguably even better than the 2009 squad that made it to the BCS National Championship Game. In the 2009 national title game, the Longhorns would take on head coach Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide to no avail thanks to a devastating injury early in the first quarter to McCoy.