1970 Texas Longhorns football | |
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Coaches' Poll national champion
Southwest Conference champion |
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Cotton Bowl Classic, L 11–24 vs. Notre Dame
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Conference | Southwest Conference |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 1 |
AP | No. 3 |
1970 record | 10–1 (7–0 SWC) |
Head coach | Darrell Royal |
Offensive coordinator | Emory Bellard |
Offensive scheme | Wishbone |
Defensive coordinator | Mike Campbell |
Base defense | 4-4 |
Home stadium |
Texas Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 66,397) |
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
#3 Texas $ | 7 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
#11 Arkansas | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas Tech | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rice | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SMU | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TCU | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baylor | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas A&M | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1970 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1970 college football season. The Longhorns shared the national championship with Nebraska. Their third National Championship overall, the previous titles were won in 1963 and 1969.
The 1970 Longhorns finished the regular season with an unblemished 10–0 record to run their winning streak to 30 games, and met Notre Dame once again in the Cotton Bowl Classic at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park. This time the #6 Fighting Irish won, 24–11, denying #1 Texas a third straight Cotton Bowl Classic victory and second straight consensus national championship. However, Texas had still earlier won the 1970 UPI (Coaches) National Championship.
Later that New Year's Day, #2 Ohio State lost 27–17 to #12 Stanford in the Rose Bowl. That night, third-ranked Nebraska defeated #5 LSU 17–12 in the Orange Bowl to give the 11–0–1 Huskers the post-bowl AP national championship. Through the 1973 season, the final UPI coaches poll was released in early December, after the regular season but before the bowl games.