The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Mack Brown set for Hall of Fame induction
11.29.2018 | Football
Texas Athletics celebrates the many accomplishments of Hall of Fame coach Mack Brown.
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Legendary Texas head football coach Mack Brown will be inducted into the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2018 on Tuesday. He will be the 22nd Longhorn all-time inducted into the Hall of Fame, joining two other coaches in Dana Bible (1937-46) and Darrell Royal (1957-76).
Nineteen Longhorn players have been inducted, including Hub Bechtol (1944-46), Earl Campbell (1974-77), Doug English (1972-74), Chris Gilbert (1966-68), Jerry Gray (1981-84), Johnnie Johnson (1976-79), Malcolm Kutner (1939-41), Bobby Layne (1944-47), Roosevelt Leaks (1972-74), Bud McFadin (1948-50), Bob McKay (1968-69), Steve McMichael (1976-79), Tommy Nobis (1963-65), James Saxton (1959-61), Harley Sewell (1950-52), Jerry Sisemore (1970-72), Mortimer "Bud" Sprague (1923-24), Harrison Stafford (1930-32) and Ricky Williams (1995-98).
Brown has compiled a career coaching record of 244-122-1 (.666) in 30 seasons as a head coach, including 16 at Texas (1998-2013). His 244 wins are the 10th-most in NCAA history by a coach with at least 10 years at an FBS school. When he left Texas, he was one of only two coaches nationally at the time to have directed teams to 21 bowls in the previous 22 seasons and the only one to have 23 winning seasons in his last 24 years. His 225 wins overall from 1990 to 2013 were the most nationally.
At Texas, Brown led the Longhorns to a mark of 158-48 (.767), second only to Darrell Royal's 167 wins in school history. He was named the 2008 Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year and the 2009 Big 12 Coach of the Year, in addition to the 2005 Paul "Bear" Bryant National Coach of the Year award winner after guiding the Longhorns to the 2005 National Championship.
There were many memorable moments and games during Brown's tenure in Austin, including Big 12 Championships and National Championship Game appearances.
Texas 34, Oklahoma 3
Saturday, October 10, 1998
Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Texas)
The 1998 season produced a number of touching stories, but none was more important than the tremendous bond formed between the 1997 Doak Walker Award winner Ricky Williams and the man for whom the award was named. Walker, the Heisman Trophy winner at SMU in 1948 and a NFL Hall of Famer, had befriended Williams just prior to being paralyzed in a skiing accident (Jan. 30, 1998) at age 71 that would lead to his death. A week after Walker died (Sept. 27, 1998), Williams wore a No. 37 sticker on his helmet in his honor against Iowa State. The following week against Oklahoma, Williams, who normally wore No. 34, chose to wear 37 in Walker's honor. "I met him and he made a big impact on my life. He was so humble. He kept fighting back through good and bad. He lived the way I want to live my life." Williams said. "When I looked down at his number before the game, I started to get real emotional. It was an extremely special day." The game was against Oklahoma and played in Dallas' historic Cotton Bowl, known as "The House That Doak Built." Williams rushed for 139 yards and two touchdowns on 31 carries in Texas' 34-3 victory. After his first scoring run, a 20-yard dash with 4:39 left in the first quarter, Williams pointed to his heart and then to the sky in tribute to Walker. He later repeated the tribute on a 78-yard run, but unfortunately that play was called back for holding. "I wanted that one for Doak," Williams said. Following the victory, Mack Brown and the Longhorns team presented Doak Walker's children and their families, who witnessed the game, with the game ball in an emotional dressing room ceremony and Williams honored the family with his soiled game jersey. "We dedicated this game to Doak Walker and his memory," Brown said. "It was a very emotional game. The team gave the Walker family the game ball and Ricky gave the family his jersey and apologized for it being as blood-stained and dirty as it was."
Texas 20, #7 Nebraska 16
Saturday, October 31, 1998
Memorial Stadium/Tom Osborne Field (Lincoln, Neb.)
Texas faced a daunting task in playing their third Top 10 opponent of the season and facing Nebraska's national-leading 47-game home winning streak. However, on the back of their future Heisman Trophy winning running back, the arm of their redshirt freshman quarterback and the heels of their top defensive effort of the year, the Longhorns took a major step toward respectability in a stunning 20-16 upset of No. 7 Nebraska in Lincoln. "The key thing that we did was come in here to win the ballgame," Ricky Williams said. "We didn't come to get a moral victory or to play a good game. We came to win and we believed that we would win. That's the reason we beat them." UT pulled a rare feat in Lincoln, jumping 
out to a 7-0 lead on its first possession and controlling the game with a 10-3 halftime lead. The Huskers responded by claiming a 13-10 lead in the third quarter, but the Longhorns didn't crater. On the UT's first possession of the final period and facing a third-and-10 play from its own 19-yard-line, Major Applewhite connected with little-used WR Bryan White on a 76-yard pass play. The throw set up Kris Stockton's 19-yard field goal that knotted the game at 13. Nebraska claimed a 16-13 advantage with 8:33 remaining in the game. Facing one of the nation's top defenses, Texas took over at its own 15-yard-line and White again made the big play. On third-and-21 from the UT 35-yard-line, White skirted the sidelines in catching a 37-yard pass that gave the Longhorns a first-and-10 at the Huskers 28. Williams rushed five consecutive times to move the ball to the Nebraska 2-yard-line, where on third-and-goal, Applewhite found Wane McGarity working his way back across the end zone on a 2-yard TD pass with 2:47 remaining. The play was tabbed the College Football Play of the Week. The game served as a significant mark in Ricky Williams run for the Heisman Trophy as he rushed 37 times for 150 yards against Nebraska's vaunted "Black Shirt" defense, which entered the game ranked 17th nationally (106.5 ypg) against the run. Applewhite completed 14-of-26 passes for 269 yards and two TDs, but possibly the most surprising effort came from the Longhorns defense, which behind a 13-tackle, two-sack, five TFLs effort from LB Anthony Hicks held Nebraska to 311 yards of offense, more than 100 yards below its season average (412.5 ypg).
#18 Texas 24, #3 Nebraska 20
Saturday, October 23, 1999
DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas)
With a record crowd of 84,082 on hand at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and the ESPN GameDay set on location, No. 18 Texas upset No. 3 Nebraska 24-20, marking the third consecutive victory for the Longhorns against the Huskers. UT overcame a 13-3 halftime deficit to out score Nebraska 21-7 in the final 30 minutes and deliver the Huskers what would be their only loss of the season. The game-winning play came with the Longhorns trailing 20-17 midway through the fourth quarter. Two plays after Major Applewhite connected with Ryan Nunez on a 39-yard strike, UT capped its victory-clinching drive with a 17-yard touchdown pass from Applewhite to Mike Jones with 5:51 remaining in the game. Texas' defense pressured Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch into three consecutive incomplete passes on the final drive and the Longhorns secured their first victory over a Top Five-ranked opponent in Austin since 1990. The Longhorns scored 14 third-quarter points in the win. Texas' first score came after the Longhorns pinned the Huskers deep in their own territory and forced a short punt. Taking over at its own 35, UT drove for a score in four plays capped by a Chris Robertson 1-yard TD plunge. Two possessions later, UT took over at its own 42-yard-line and Applewhite connected with Kwame Cavil three times in a row, including a 13-yard scoring pass to give the Longhorns their first lead (17-13) since the opening quarter. Nebraska reclaimed the lead with just less than eight minutes remaining, which set up UT's game-winning drive.
#6 Texas 38, #13 Michigan 37
Saturday, January 1, 2005
Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.)
It was one of the great games played on one of the grandest stages in college football. Two of the game's most storied programs met for the first time as No. 6 Texas outdueled No. 13 Michigan, 38-37, for the Rose Bowl Championship. The combination of Doak Walker Award-winning RB Cedric Benson and QB Vince Young proved to be too much for the Wolverines to contain. Texas finished with 264 yards rushing, including a UT quarterback record 192 yards from Young, who recorded four rushing TDs for the second time in the season. Young broke a 14-14 halftime tie by hitting the right sideline for a 60-yard TD run just over two minutes into the third quarter. Michigan answered 30 seconds later with a 50-yard TD pass from QB Chad Henne to the Biletnikoff Award winner, WR Braylon Edwards, his third TD catch of the game. The Wolverines added 10 consecutive points and took a 31-21 lead into the fourth quarter. However, the Longhorns were determined that their first appearance in the Rose Bowl would not be a loss. During a spectacular 10-yard TD run, Young appeared to have his legs wrapped by a Michigan defender in the pocket, but spun away and found the right corner of the end zone. Sandwiched between two field goals by UM's Garrett Rivas, Young added a 23-yard TD run down the left sideline with just under five minutes left. With Texas trailing, 37-35, and 2:58 showing on the clock, the stage was set for a legendary finish. Starting at the Longhorn 34, Young rushed on five of UT's next seven plays, collecting 34 yards. Benson added three rushes, the last of which placed the ball just inside the Texas 20 with two seconds left. Following a series of timeouts, PK Dusty Mangum sent the Longhorns and their faithful into a frenzy as his 37-yard FG attempt found its way through the uprights as time expired.
#2 Texas 25, #4 Ohio State 22
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Ohio Stadium (Columbus, Ohio)
In an early season match-up, the second-ranked Longhorns traveled to Columbus to face the fourth-ranked Buckeyes in a game that would shape the race for the National Championship. For the second time in three games, Texas was taking on one of the Big Ten's finest programs for the first time in school history after having defeated Michigan in the previous year's Rose Bowl. The game turned into the classic it was expected to be and when QB Vince Young hit WR Limas Sweed for a 24-yard touchdown with just over two minutes to play, and an exciting comeback win was set. The Longhorns secured a 25-22 victory, snapping Ohio State's 36-game non-conference home winning streak. It was also the highest ranked team Texas had ever beaten on the road. Young was named the National Player of the Week for his performance after racking up 346 yards of total offense. He went 18-of-29 for 270 yards and two TDs and rushed for another 76 yards. But more importantly, Young brought Texas back from a fourth-quarter deficit for the fifth time in his career. With the nation watching, Texas jumped out to a 10-0 lead behind a David Pino 42-yard field goal and a 10-play, 84-yard TD drive that was capped by a five-yard strike from Young to WR Billy Pittman. The momentum swayed towards Ohio State in the second quarter. The Buckeyes started three of their four drives in Texas territory, but the stingy Longhorns defense managed to hold them to three field goals and only one TD. On the last drive of the half, Pino connected on his second field goal of the game to make the score 16-13 at halftime. Ohio State opened the second half by forcing a turnover and got the ball at the Texas 37, but again the UT defense held and forced a field goal to make the score 19-13. The teams exchanged field goals and the score remained 22-16 throughout most of the fourth quarter. After forcing Ohio State to miss a field goal Texas took over at their own 33 with five minutes to play. The Longhorns drove down the field to the Ohio State 24-yard line setting up Young's game-winning TD pass to Sweed. The Longhorns defense forced a fumble and notched a safety on Ohio State's final two possessions to help secure the victory.
#2 Texas 41, #1 Southern California 38
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.) -- National Championship
Texas entered their second consecutive Rose Bowl riding a 19-game winning streak and set to play for its first National Championship since 1970. Despite coming into the game as an underdog to the defending National Champion USC Trojans, who were on a 34-game winning streak, Texas won its fourth National Title with a thrilling come-from-behind 41-38 victory in what many people have called the greatest college football game of all time. Vince Young was named the Offensive MVP for the second consecutive year, becoming only the fourth player in Rose Bowl history to do so, after posting a Rose Bowl record 467 total yards, scoring three TDs and recording the sixth fourth-quarter comeback victory of his career. After a back-and-forth affair that saw Texas lead by as many as nine and trail by 12 with just under seven minutes left, the game came down to 4th-and-5 at the Texas eight-yard line with UT trailing 38-33. Texas QB Vince Young dropped back, went through his progressions, saw an opening on the right side and took off. With the help of a crushing block by right tackle Justin Blalock, he raced passed the USC defense and scampered into the right corner of the end zone to give Texas a 39-38 lead with only 19 seconds remaining. Young capped the scoring with a two-point conversion to produce the final margin of 41-38. With 6:42 left in the game, the Horns title hopes were in jeopardy after USC's Matt Leinart hit Dwayne Jarrett to give the Trojans a 38-26 lead. But, on the very next possession, Young drove the Longhorns 69 yards in 2:39, completing 5-of-6 passes and rushing twice for 25 yards, to cut the lead to five. On its ensuing possession, USC moved the ball to the Texas 45 and found itself facing 4th-and-2 with the game hanging in the balance. The Trojans decided to go for it, but the Texas defense, which had already forced a turnover on downs earlier in the game, came up with a huge stop, giving Texas the ball back with 2:09 and setting up the winning drive. Overall, Texas' defense held USC 12 points below its season average, made two fourth-down stops and picked off a pass in the end zone. Defensive MVP Michael Huff led the Longhorns in tackles with 12, including a TFL, and recovered a fumble. On offense, Young had 200 yards rushing and 267 yards passing, while TE David Thomas finished his UT career with 10 catches for 88 yards.
#5 Texas 45, #1 Oklahoma 35
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Texas)
No. 5 Texas trailed by as many as 11 points twice before putting on a 25-7 second-half surge in knocking off No. 1 Oklahoma, 45-35, at Dallas' Cotton Bowl. It was UT's first regular season victory over a No. 1 team since a 28-7 win over Oklahoma on Oct. 12, 1963. After pulling within 21-20 at halftime, Oklahoma pushed its lead back to eight to open the second half, but the Longhorns responded with its 25-7 run. The Horns' 45 points matched a series high. Offensively, Texas registered 438 total yards against an Oklahoma defense that was allowing just 256 total yards per game. WR Jordan Shipley had a career day, setting highs in receptions (11) and all-purpose yards (225), including 112 receiving yards, one TD reception and a Red River Rivalry record 96-yard kickoff return TD that cut Oklahoma's lead to 14-10. He also had a 37-yard, fourth-quarter reception that positioned UT at the one-yard line for a TD to take the lead for good, 38-35. WR Quan Cosby had 122 receiving yards and QB Colt McCoy finished the game 28-of-35 for 277 yards and one TD and rushed for 31 more yards. RB Chris Ogbonnaya tallied 15 carries for 127 yards, including a career-long 62-yarder that set up the final of three Cody Johnson rushing TDs to give the Horns a 10-point advantage with 4:02 to play. Defensively, Texas held Oklahoma to just one TD in the final 26:15 and limited it to more than 100 yards below its season average and 14 points under its scoring average. UT held the Sooners to only 48 rushing yards on 26 attempts and starting tailback DeMarco Murray was held to six yards on seven carries. In all, the Longhorns recorded three sacks, two INTs and three forced fumbles. DE Brian Orakpo recorded two sacks and added two more TFL, while LB Roddrick Muckelroy led the team in tackles with 16. Freshman safety Earl Thomas posted two INTs.
#3 Texas 24, #10 Ohio State 21
Monday, January 5, 2009
University of Phoenix Stadium (Glendale, Ariz.)
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
Texas played in its third BCS bowl in five years in the 2009 Fiesta Bowl, and kept its record perfect in those games, along with winning a UT record fifth-straight bowl overall, with a thrilling 24-21 win over No. 10 Ohio State. The win resulted in the Longhorns finishing the season 12-1, the second 12-win season in school history. The Longhorns amassed 486 total yards, including 414 passing yards, against the Buckeyes, who entered the game ranked in the Top 10 nationally in scoring defense, total defense and passing defense. After moving the ball, but struggling to score in the first half, Texas entered the third quarter trailing, 6-3. In that frame, the Longhorns scored 14 unanswered points and outgained their total yardage from the first half, while the defense held the Buckeyes to a total of two yards. Texas also held an 11:09-3:51 advantage in time of possession. The Longhorns took the opening kickoff of the half and moved 80 yards on 15 plays, capped by a 14-yard TD run by QB Colt McCoy. McCoy earned Offensive MVP honors for the third time in three bowl wins as a starting quarterback, setting UT and BCS records with 41 completions on 58 attempts for the 414 yards, which ranked second in BCS history and third in UT history. Both of his passing TDs were to WR Quan Cosby with the first coming on a seven-yard reception with 1:04 left in the third quarter. For the game, Cosby set a career high and a UT bowl record with 14 receptions for a career-high 171 yards, the second-highest total in UT bowl history. WR Jordan Shipley also reached double-figure receptions with 10 for 78 yards. Following Texas' run, Ohio State returned the favor with a 15-0 run to open the fourth quarter. Buckeyes RB Dan Herron finished a drive with a 15-yard TD run and the two-point attempt again failed for a 21-17 Ohio State lead with just 2:05 remaining. That would be all the time McCoy would need to lead Texas 78 yards on 11 plays in just 1:42, including the conversion of a fourth-and-three where McCoy found WR James Kirkendoll, who fought off a Buckeye defender and stretched for the first down. Following a 14-yard completion to WR Brandon Collins, the Longhorns had the ball at the OSU 26-yard line. McCoy found Cosby on a slant to the middle of the field where he broke away from a defender and streaked 20 yards to the end zone with 16 seconds left. With the ensuing kickoff returned to the OSU 45-yard line, the Buckeyes had 11 seconds left, but DE Brian Orakpo sacked Todd Boeckman for a 10-yard loss. Orakpo finished the game with two tackles, one sack and three pressures, while DT Roy Miller earned Defensive MVP honors, holding the middle of the line, while recording three tackles, one sack and two pressures.
#3 Texas 13, #21 Nebraska 12
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Cowboys Stadium (Dallas, Texas)
Big 12 Championship
Hunter Lawrence nailed a 46-yard field goal as time expired giving Texas a 13-12 win over Nebraska and its third Big 12 Conference title. It also marked the Longhorns' 28th conference championship overall. The victory gave Texas 13 wins for the second time in school history, with the other coming in 2005. The Longhorns defense was dominant, holding Nebraska to just five first downs and 106 yards of total offense for the game. The 106 yards of total offense for Nebraska was their lowest output since at least 1984 and the 13th-lowest total given up by Texas since 1944. UT held Nebraska to 2-of-16 on third-down conversions for the game and limited the Cornhuskers to 26 yards on 27 plays during their nine drives in the second and third quarters. The Longhorns built a 7-6 lead at the half by holding Nebraska to just two first downs and 32 yards of total offense on 28 plays (1.1 ypp). Texas' pass defense intercepted three passes and held NU to just six completions and 39 passing yards, the lowest totals in Big 12 Championship history. Colt McCoy rushed for the game's only TD in the second quarter. He completed 20 passes for 184 yards and went 8-of-10 for 84 yards on the Horns' final two drives, one of which was the game-winning FG drive. Jordan Shipley caught seven passes for 71 yards, including a 19-yarder on the game's final drive to set up the game-winning field goal. In the game, Shipley set the UT single-season receptions record, finishg the contest with 106 for the year.
Texas 27, Texas A&M 25
Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011
Kyle Field (College Station, Texas)
In the two teams' last meeting as members of the Big 12 Conference, Texas held A&M to nearly 200 total yards under their season average of 512.4 total yards per game as the Longhorns pulled off a dramatic 27-25 victory over the Aggies in College Station. The win gave Texas a 5-1 lead in the annual State Farm Lone Star Showdown, a 10-4 lead over the Aggies during the Mack Brown era, and an overall record of 76-37-5 in the third-most played rivalry in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision. The Texas defense proved stellar, forcing a then season-high four turnovers (three interceptions and one fumble) and holding A&M to over 100 yards below its season rushing average of 218.6 yards per game. Texas A&M took a 25-24 lead inside the game's final two minutes behind a 16-yard touchdown pass from Tannehill to A&M wide receiver Jeff Fuller. A failed two-point conversion meant Texas could win the game with a field goal. The Longhorns, behind sophomore quarterback Case McCoy, needed to drive 71 yards with 1:48 left in the game to position themselves for the win. On third-and-one from the UT 48-yard-line, McCoy found freshman wide receiver Miles Onyegbule for four yards and a first down to the A&M 48. On the very next play, with only 44 seconds remaining, McCoy tucked the ball and ran for 25 yards to the Aggies' 23-yard line. Junior wide receiver Marquise Goodwin and Johnson each ran for no gain on successive plays, and Texas called for time with three seconds left in the game. Texas A&M burned its final timeout just prior to the field-goal attempt, but senior Justin Tucker booted a 40-yard field goal as time expired to give Texas the victory as the jubilant Longhorns spilled onto Kyle Field in celebration.
Texas 33, Iowa State 7
Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012
DKR- Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin)
The Longhorn family lost a legend with the passing of former head coach Darrell K Royal. The Saturday after his death, the Longhorns honored Royal on their first play from scrimmage against Iowa State by lining up in the Wishbone formation, which Royal pioneered. The Horns went with a trick play and quarterback David Ash handed the ball off to Jaxon Shipley. Shipley threw the ball back to Ash who threw the ball to Greg Daniels for a 47-yard gain. In addition, the team honored Royal by wearing special "DKR" decals on its helmets on that game and until the end of the season. His initials also adorned the logo at midfield and a video tribute was shown at halftime.
Texas 36, #10 Oklahoma 20
Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013
Cottom Bowl (Dallas)
Four different Longhorns scored touchdowns as Texas improved to 4-2 with a 36-20 victory over No. 12/10 Oklahoma in the annual AT&T Red River Rivalry in the Cotton Bowl. Case McCoy threw for 190 yards and two touchdowns, while Jonathan Gray and Malcolm Brown both topped 100 yards rushing in the game. The Longhrons never trailed as they led wire-to-wire to defeat the Sooners for the first time since 2009. Texas also scored two non-offensive touchdowns in one game for the first time since 2009 - one on a 31-interception return from Chris Whaley and another on an 85-yard punt return from Daje Johnson. Oklahoma finished 2-of-13 on third down while Texas was 13-of-20 in the win. Most importantly, the Longhorns were even in the turnover battle after being plagued by those miscues during their three-game losing streak to the Sooners.
