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2005 Texas Longhorn football team

The 2005 Texas Longhorn football team represented The University of Texas at Austin during the college football season of 2005–2006, winning the Big 12 Conference Championship and the national championship. This was the fourth national championship for the Texas Longhorns football program. The team was coached by Mack Brown and led on offense by quarterback Vince Young.

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 University of Southern California Trojans for the national championship. Sportswriters have cited this victory and this team's season 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. The team set numerous school and NCAA records, including their 652 points which set an NCAA record for points scored in a season. {more...)

This article is the first FA for the College Football WikiProject and also the first FA for the University of Texas WikiProject. Johntex\^talk 15:08, 13 September 2007 (UTC)