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  1. '63 🤘 1963 National Champions receive tribute from current Football players [Sept. 1, 2013] 1963 Texas Football National Champions Reunion [Aug. 31, 2013]
  2. More... Offensive guard Justin Blalock was a member of one of the greatest teams in Texas Longhorns history. The 2005-06 BCS National Championship team, where he was tasked with blocking for Vince Young. The North Texas native started all four years for the Longhorns. During his collegiate career, Blalock set the school record for consecutive starts with 51. The team had a 44-7 record when he played. He helped pave the way to allow VY to set the schools all-time leading rushing record for a quarterback. Not to mention the offense in that 2005 season broke a single-season record for most points scored. The old record of 624 points was set by the 1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Longhorns set the new standard with 652 points. Blalock received the inaugural Big 12 Offensive Lineman of the Year award in 2006. He was also a four-time All-Big 12 First-Team member, and a two-time All-American for the Longhorns. Blalock was selected 39th overall in the second round by the Atlanta Falcons during the 2007 NFL Draft. He played for the team until 2014. He was released in February following the season and retired from football a few months later. Accomplishments: 2001 USA Today High School All-American Two-time All-American Four-time first-team All-Big 12 2006 Big 12 Offensive Lineman of the Year Finalist for the Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy Second-round selection in the 2007 NFL Draft Eight-year NFL veteran Plano ISD Hall of Fame Inductee 2018 Texas Hall of Honor Inductee
  3. 64 Days 🤘 Here's Bobby Mitchell #64 Texas from "The Game of the Century"
  4. 64 Days... What a Beast!! CASEY HAMPTON 🤘 One of the best DT's at Texas of all time!!! Thx for this pic goes to @BigHorn'13 Just announced early June 2025... https://www.on3.com/teams/texas-longhorns/news/casey-hampton-looks-right-at-home-on-the-2026-college-football-hall-of-fame-ballot/
  5. Loved Kasey celebrating Championship running onto the field after final play of 2006 Rose Bowl (about 2:49:45) 🤘 Hook'em 🤘
  6. For Friday... 64 Days 🤘 Kasey Studdard is a maniac... 🤘
  7. And yesterday... For 65 Days 🤘
  8. For a few days ago, y'all missed Doug Dawson... #66 🤘
  9. Malik Agbo #67 🤘
  10. 67 Days 🤘 Julius
  11. 68 Days... Below pic previously posted thx to @Longboard Horn More 68 Days 🤘
  12. '68 🤘 Here comes the Wishbone!!! 🤘 Darrell Royal's use of the wishbone launched an offensive revolution that change college football. 1. 1968 Texas Head coach: Darrell Royal Record: 9-1-1 So many college football innovations have started far outside the mainstream, in places like Carlisle, Pennsylvania, or Mount Pleasant, Iowa. But one of the single most influential innovations of all time took place at one of college football's power schools. In essence, it doesn't sound like much of a tweak. Tasked with modernizing a stale offense, new coordinator Emory Bellard -- who, strangely enough, had been hired as the linebackers coach a year earlier -- basically went back in time to install the Split-T option offense as a way of getting more from a loaded backfield. Only, he had the fullback line up closer to the quarterback as a faster way of either hitting the hole on the dive portion of the option or fulfilling his blocking assignments. But somehow that little tweak, which made the formation look like a wishbone(or, as writer Mickey Herskowitz called it at the time, "a pulley-bone on a chicken"), led to a revolution. Having won just 20 games in the three previous seasons, Texas began 1968 with a tie against Houston and a loss to Texas Tech. But backup quarterback James Street looked good in a comeback attempt against Tech; he was named the starter the next week, and Texas wouldn't lose again until 1971. They rolled through the rest of their 1968 slate, then went a perfect 11-0 in 1969, winning an all-time classic against Arkansas, then confirming a national title with a Cotton Bowl win over Notre Dame. Because of Texas' blueblood profile, the Wishbone didn't have to work its way up from the lower levels of the sport. The other powers immediately understood that it could work for them. Alabama's Bear Bryant quickly adopted it following the Longhorns' 1969 success. So, too, did rival Oklahoma. And while the Horns would certainly reap the benefits of this offensive explosion -- they enjoyed four top-five finishes from 1968 to 1972, then another top-10 finish before Royal's retirement in 1976 -- Bama and OU would dominate the decade, with five national titles and 16 combined top-five finishes from 1971 to 1980. Never has an innovation caught on so quickly, and for the success it brought both Texas and others, the team that perfected the 'Bone should be considered the most influential team the sport has seen.
  13. '69 🤘 Legends of the SWC - Texas vs Arkansas football game 1969 1969 Texas vs Arkansas from the Eyes of Texas Legends
  14. BOOM !!! THAT'S 2
  15. Shitty to have umpires as the big story of this game... ridiculous
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