Texas football: 5 bold predictions for the Longhorns in 2020

1. Texas makes their first College Football Playoff

If it wasn’t clear that I thought that Texas could compete at a very high level in 2020, it should be now. All of the previous slides enforce the belief that this has the potential to be a very good team in 2020.

They have all the talent there, everything just has to fall in the place like it should have last year and frankly the year before that. But this is Herman’s year to finally make a breakthrough at the university he was hired to turn around.

Ehlinger coming back as one of the best quarterbacks in college football gets things started in the right direction, and the very talented and crowded running back room only helps matters. Herman hasn’t done a bad job of recruiting, there is going to be plenty of high-level former recruits on the field in 2020, they just have to mesh in a way that we haven’t seen from a Texas team in a long time.

The defense should be much improved with the hiring of defensive mastermind Ash as defensive coordinator and the return of stars Ossai and Sterns.

You add all of this to the fact that Oklahoma doesn’t have a proven star at quarterback for the first time since Baker Mayfield exploded onto the scene and all of the pieces are in place.

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