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Texas is (NOT) back! And Twitter roasted the Longhorns fans about it

ByJohn Buhler|
TCU Horned, Frogs, Texas Longhorns. (Mandatory Credit: Ricardo B. Brazziell-USA TODAY Sports)
TCU Horned, Frogs, Texas Longhorns. (Mandatory Credit: Ricardo B. Brazziell-USA TODAY Sports)

Texas football gives the Big 12 yet another loss the conference couldn’t afford to have.

Texas football’s home loss to TCU football only reaffirms that the Longhorns still aren’t back.

Despite being the No. 9 team in the country, the Texas Longhorns fell at home to a winless TCU Horned Frogs team. Though Gary Patterson is a hall-of-fame-level coach, this was a game Tom Herman needed to win to keep the Big 12’s slim College Football Playoff dreams alive. The only Big 12 team without a loss through the first weekend in October is the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

Twitter has let us all know that the Texas Longhorns still are not back yet.

Herman was the head coaching candidate when he was hired back in 2017 away from the AAC’s Houston Cougars. Though he does have a Sugar Bowl victory under his belt, it’s about getting to the College Football Playoff at a blue-blood program like Texas. Until the Longhorns get into the four-team field, they will remain not back and people will harpoon them on Twitter like this.

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1312484290530217985

Here are some stats to blow your mind about how badly Texas is 100 percent not back. Since TCU joined the Big 12 along with the West Virginia Mountaineers in 2012, the Horned Frogs have a 7-2 record over Texas. Keep in mind that TCU was essentially a Group of 5 team before being invited to the Big 12 along with West Virginia to replace the Missouri Tigers and the Texas A&M Aggies.

Since Herman was hired to lead Texas ahead of the 2017 college football season, Texas has suffered six losses as a team ranked in the AP Top 25 poll to an unranked opponent. This is the most of any team in the FBS over the last three years. Blue-blood programs like Texas supposedly is don’t lose games at home to unranked teams when they reside in the top 25. It’s embarrassing.

Even if it has been better than the unmitigated disaster that occurred under Charlie Strong, Texas is nowhere near what it used to be under Mack Brown with Herman in charge. This is a program that should contend with the Oklahoma Sooners every single year for the Big 12 Championship. They don’t have to beat Oklahoma regularly, but can’t lose seven out of nine times to TCU.

Texas is not back in 2020 and probably won’t be back in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 or even 2025.

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