In the final season for current head coach Tom Herman took over at the helm for the Texas football program, the men in burnt orange battled the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the back end of a home-and-home series. Texas and Notre Dame faced each other in South Bend in 2015 and in Austin in 2016. Both of those games came under the direction of former Texas head coach Charlie Strong.
And on the opposite sideline of the Texas Longhorns football program in those meetings with Notre Dame was their current head coach Brian Kelly.