The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Texas ranked 10th in USA Today Coaches Preseason Poll
08.01.2008 | Football
Aug. 1, 2008
AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas ranked 10th in the annual USA Today Coaches Preseason Top 25 Poll, which was released on Friday.
This is the ninth consecutive year Texas has opened the season with a Top 10 national ranking in the poll. The nine consecutive appearances in the preseason poll's Top 10 is a UT best.
UT has been ranked among the USA Today Coaches Poll for 153 straight weeks dating back to late in the 1998 season. The 153 straight weeks is the longest UT streak in any poll and the nation's longest active streak in the coaches' poll. The next longest active streak is USC's 98-week stretch. The Horns previous longest streak in the coaches' poll was 54 weeks from 1977-80. Texas has been ranked in the first and final coaches' poll in all 10 of Mack Brown's seasons in Austin.
In all, five Big 12 Conference teams were ranked in the Top 25 with Oklahoma at No. 3, Missouri at No. 7, Kansas at No. 13 and Texas Tech at No. 14. The Horns will face all four of the other ranked Big 12 teams this season. Texas will host Missouri (Oct. 18), travel to Texas Tech (Nov. 1) and Kansas (Nov.15), and meet Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Oct. 11.
The Longhorns open the 2008 campaign on Saturday, Aug. 30, when they host Florida Atlantic at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.
