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.”