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February 6, 2024

Three years ago, things weren’t looking great for the Texas Longhorns.

Tom Herman had just been fired, the culture of the program was in a precarious position, and the team seemingly had no direction going forward.

Then, Steve Sarkisian landed in Austin, and things began to change.

Flash forward to today, and Texas is fresh off of a Big 12 championship, a College Football Playoff run, and about to wrap up their third-straight top-5 recruiting clas

And according to 247Sports analyst Josh Pate, the Horns could not be in a better spot heading into their first season of SEC Play.

“This could be an evergreen prediction,” Pate said. “Keep saying it. Like predicting Saban’s retirement… keep predicting it every year, because eventually you’ll get it right. Keep predicting this, because Texas is going to have a shot every year.”

From the outside looking in, that may seem like a wild prediction. After all, the Horns lost its four top pass catches in Xavier Worthy, Jordan Whittington, Adonai Mitchell, and Ja’Tavion Sanders, its top running back in Jonathan Brooks and arguably its three best defensive players in T’Vondre Sweat, Byron Murphy II and Jaylon Ford.

However, thanks to the way Sarkisian has built the foundation of the program, Texas shouldn’t lose much of a beat.

Even before their elite transfer portal haul Texas was expected to at least compete for an SEC title in 2024 – especially after the announcement of Quinn Ewers’ return. Sarkisian’s recruiting had been that good.

But now they aren’t expected to miss much of a beat at all – and now that it is built to last, it won’t be for a long time.

“Texas doesn’t have to [rebuild],” Pate said. “Texas has entered that rarified air in our sport where they can take their best shot, and if they win a title, fine. If they lose to Washington in the semifinals, fine. They’ll have an excellent chance to do it again the next year.”