The offensive line averages 6-foot-4 and 325 pounds, but it's the Texas defense that has come up big in keeping the Longhorns unbeaten.
Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun.Steve Sarkisian had one key piece of feedback for athletic director Chris Del Conte when he studied his potential roster while interviewing for the Texas coaching job.
Now, as No. 3 Texas sits at 5-0 heading into the annual Red River Rivalry showdown against No. 12 Oklahoma . It was the highest-scoring game for Texas in the 118-game series. But inconsistency plagued the Longhorns the rest of the season, going 4-3 from then on, en route to an 8-5 finish. "I think it's been huge," Sarkisian said this week of the defense."We've gone through first halves of games where we played upwards of 30 guys. Sometimes you don't feel the effect of that rotation in the first half. But naturally, you look at some of these fourth quarters we've been having now. ... I think we're more fresh physically. We're more fresh mentally.
"For Xavier to catch seven balls last year, it would take about 14 or 15 attempts in his direction because everybody knew we have to throw it there," Sarkisian said after the Kansas game."Now all of a sudden, when you have a complementary receiver on the other side, sooner or later people are going to start paying more attention to No.
Sarkisian said on Monday he's preparing for a bit of a chess match against Oklahoma's Brent Venables, who he said has"been doing it too long at too high of a level to think they weren't going to get that thing fixed" after last year's 6-7 meltdown, in which they finished 122nd in total defense, allowing 461 yards per game.
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