2005 Texas Longhorns football team

2005 Texas Longhorns football
Consensus national champion
Big 12 champion
Big 12 South Division champion
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl (BCS NCG), W 41–38 vs. USC
ConferenceBig 12 Conference
DivisionSouth
Ranking
CoachesNo. 1
APNo. 1
Record13–0 (8–0 Big 12)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorGreg Davis (8th season)
Offensive schemeSpread
Co-defensive coordinatorGene Chizik (1st season)
Co-defensive coordinatorDuane Akina (1st season)
Base defense4–3
Home stadiumDarrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 2004
2006 →
2005 Big 12 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
North Division
Colorado x   5 – 3     7 – 6  
No. 24 Nebraska   4 – 4     8 – 4  
Missouri   4 – 4     7 – 5  
Iowa State   4 – 4     7 – 5  
Kansas   3 – 5     7 – 5  
Kansas State   2 – 6     5 – 6  
South Division
No. 1 Texas x$#   8 – 0     13 – 0  
No. 20 Texas Tech   6 – 2     9 – 3  
No. 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
The UT Tower lit in a special configuration in honor of the 2005 National Championship football team.[1]

The 2005 Texas Longhorns 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.[2] 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,[3][4][5][6][7] and ESPN awarded the 2006 ESPY Award for the "Best Game" in any sport to the Longhorns and the Trojans.[8] The Longhorns finished as the only unbeaten team in NCAA Division I-A football that year, with thirteen wins and zero losses.[9][10] Owing to its overwhelmingly dominant margins of victory, and its perfect record, this Longhorns team is often considered among the best in college football history.[11]

Texas earned its second Big 12 Conference football championship[10] to make 27 conference championships total, including 25 in the Southwest Conference.[12] It was their fourth national championship in football[13] and the ninth perfect season in the history of Longhorn football.[14]

The team set numerous school and NCAA records, including their 652 points which set an NCAA record for points scored in a season. After the season ended, six Longhorns from this championship team joined professional football teams through the 2006 NFL draft.[15] Seven more Longhorns followed suit in the 2007 NFL draft and they were joined by two free agents.[16] Another nine followed through the 2008 draft and free-agency to make a total of twenty-four players who entered into the National Football League (NFL).[17][18]

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  3. ^ Cirminiello, Richard; Harris, John (September 5, 2006). "Tuesday Question – Ten Greatest Bowl Games". College Football News. Archived from the original on December 11, 2006. Retrieved December 13, 2006.
  4. ^ Fiutak, Pete. "Formula and Calculations for All-Time Greatest Football Teams". College Football News. Archived from the original on January 18, 2006. Retrieved June 27, 2006.
  5. ^ Bisher, Furman (January 6, 2006). "BCS enjoys 'grand cresendo'". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on April 15, 2007. Retrieved December 12, 2006.
  6. ^ Defresne, Chris (December 1, 2006). "Is the bloom off the Rose?". College Football News. Archived from the original on December 2, 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2006.
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  8. ^ Fisher, Gerren LaQuintFisher, Gerren LaQuint (July 14, 2006). "Texas snags ESPY trifecta – 2006 Rose Bowl voted Best Game of the year, Vince gets Best Championship Performance". The Daily Texan. Texas Student Media. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2006.
  9. ^ College football team records are conventionally expressed in number of wins/losses. 13–0 means 13 wins and zero losses.
  10. ^ a b "All Time Big-12 Standings" (PDF). University of Texas at Austin Department of Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 6, 2006. Retrieved June 26, 2006.
  11. ^ Kenyon, David. "The 10 Best College Football Teams of All Time". Bleacher Report. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
  12. ^ "All Time SWC Standings" (PDF). University of Texas at Austin Department of Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 6, 2006. Retrieved June 26, 2006.
  13. ^ "NCAA History – Football Bowl Subdivision". National Collegiate Athletics Association. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  14. ^ "University of Texas – all time records". University of Texas at Austin Department of Athletics. Archived from the original on May 11, 2006. Retrieved December 5, 2006.
  15. ^ "Draft Tracker – Texas". National Football League. April 30, 2006. Archived from the original on July 8, 2006. Retrieved July 27, 2006.
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