2006 Texas Longhorns football team

2006 Texas Longhorns football
Alamo Bowl champion
Alamo Bowl, W 26–24 vs. Iowa
ConferenceBig 12 Conference
DivisionSouth
Ranking
CoachesNo. 13
APNo. 13
Record10–3 (6–2 Big 12)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorGreg Davis (9th season)
Offensive schemeSpread
Co-defensive coordinatorGene Chizik (2nd season)
Co-defensive coordinatorDuane Akina (2nd season)
Base defense4–3
Home stadiumDarrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium
(Capacity: 85,123)
Seasons
← 2005
2007 →
2006 Big 12 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
North Division
Nebraska x   6 – 2     9 – 5  
Missouri   4 – 4     8 – 5  
Kansas State   4 – 4     7 – 6  
Kansas   3 – 5     6 – 6  
Colorado   2 – 6     2 – 10  
Iowa State   1 – 7     4 – 8  
South Division
No. 11 Oklahoma x$   7 – 1     11 – 3  
No. 13 Texas   6 – 2     10 – 3  
Texas A&M   5 – 3     9 – 4  
Texas Tech   4 – 4     8 – 5  
Oklahoma State   3 – 5     7 – 6  
Baylor   3 – 5     4 – 8  
Championship: Oklahoma 21, Nebraska 7
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2006 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head football coach was Mack Brown. The Longhorns (also known as Texas or UT or the Horns) played their home games in Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium (DKR), which during 2006 was undergoing some renovations to improve older sections as well as to add extra seating capacity.

The 2006 team was the defending national champions since the previous year's team won both the Big 12 Conference championship and the National Championship. That was the program's second Big 12 Championship[1] (27 conference championships total, including 25 in the Southwest Conference),[2] and fourth consensus national championship in football.[3] Their championship victory in the 2006 Rose Bowl was also the 800th win for the program and the Longhorns entered the season ranked third in the all-time list of both total wins and winning percentage (.7143).[4]

In 2006, the Longhorn's game against Ohio State University in September was one of the most anticipated college football games of the regular season.[5][6][7][8][9] Texas lost the game to Ohio State and completed the regular season with an overall record of 9 wins – 3 losses, and a 6–2 record in conference games. They were ranked 19th in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) rankings, issued prior to the bowl season.[10] The Longhorns ended their season with a victory in the 2006 Alamo Bowl against the unranked, 6–6 Iowa Hawkeyes to improve to an overall record of 10 wins – 3 losses. They were ranked 13th in the final national rankings by both the Associated Press AP Poll and the USA Today Coaches Poll[11] As of May 1, 2007 seven players from this team had been drafted by professional football teams and two more had signed professional contracts as free agents.

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Past Division I-A Football National Champions". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Archived from the original on June 13, 2006. Retrieved June 27, 2006.
  4. ^ "Texas – Game 1" (PDF). University of Texas at Austin Department of Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 9, 2007. Retrieved October 22, 2006.
  5. ^ Duffy, David (August 20, 2006). "Don't miss these games in 2006". ESPN. Retrieved December 13, 2006.
  6. ^ Feldman, Bruce (July 26, 2006). "September's intriguing matchups". ESPN. Archived from the original on August 5, 2006. Retrieved August 3, 2006.
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  9. ^ Warden, Steve (September 1, 2006). "Games to watch, week-by-week". Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2006.
  10. ^ "2006 College Football Rankings – Week 15". ESPN. December 3, 2006. Archived from the original on December 5, 2006. Retrieved December 4, 2006.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference final rankings was invoked but never defined (see the help page).