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2005 Texas Longhorn football team

2005 Texas Longhorns football
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Consensus national champion
Big 12 champion
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl (BCS NCG), W 41–38 vs. USC
Conference Big 12 Conference
Division South
Ranking
Coaches No. 1
AP No. 1
2005 record 13–0 (8–0 Big 12)
Head coach Mack Brown (8th year)
Offensive coordinator Greg Davis (8th year)
Offensive scheme Spread
Co-defensive coordinator Gene Chizik (1st year)
Co-defensive coordinator Duane Akina (1st year)
Base defense 4–3
Home stadium Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium
(Capacity: 80,092)
Seasons
« 2004 2006 »
2005 Big 12 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Northern Division
Colorado x   5 3         7 6  
#24 Nebraska   4 4         8 4  
Iowa State   4 4         7 5  
Missouri   4 4         7 5  
Kansas   3 5         7 5  
Kansas State   2 6         5 6  
Southern Division
#1 Texas x$#   8 0         13 0  
#20 Texas Tech   6 2         9 3  
#22 Oklahoma   6 2         8 4  
Texas A&M   3 5         5 6  
Baylor   2 6         5 6  
Oklahoma State   1 7         4 7  
Championship: Texas 70, Colorado 3
  • # – BCS National Champion
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
1 2 3 4 Total
Louisiana-Lafayette 3 0 0 0 3
Texas 13 26 14 7 60
1 2 3 4 Total
Texas 10 3 3 9 25
Ohio St 0 16 6 0 22
1 2 3 4 Total
Rice 0 0 3 7 10
Texas 14 28 9 0 51
  • Date: September 17
  • Location: Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas
  • Television network: FSN
1 2 3 4 Total
Texas 14 10 13 14 51
Missouri 13 0 0 7 20
1 2 3 4 Total
Oklahoma 6 0 0 6 12
Texas 14 10 7 14 45
1 2 3 4 Total
Colorado 0 10 0 7 17
Texas 14 21 0 7 42
  • Date: October 15
  • Location: Darrell K Royal-Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas
  • Television network: ABC

The 2005 Texas Longhorn football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season, winning the Big 12 Conference championship and the national championship. The team was coached by Mack Brown, led on offense by quarterback Vince Young, and played its home games at Darrell K. Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium.

The team's penultimate victory of the season, the Big 12 Championship Game, featured the biggest margin of victory in the history of that contest. They finished the season by winning the 2006 Rose Bowl against the USC Trojans for the national championship. Numerous publications have cited this victory as standing among the greatest performances in college football history, and ESPN awarded the 2006 ESPY Award for the "Best Game" in any sport to the Longhorns and the Trojans. The Longhorns finished as the only unbeaten team in NCAA Division I-A football that year, with thirteen wins and zero losses.

Texas earned its second Big 12 Conference football championship to make 27 conference championships total, including 25 in the Southwest Conference. It was their fourth national championship in football and the ninth perfect season in the history of Longhorn football.


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