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This football team represents the University of Texas at the games of the NCAA FBS. The team belongs to the Big 12 Conference currently but over the course of its career has been a member of various other conferences as well as having been an independent team. The total number of conference wins it has garnered is 32. A good 129 of their members have been named All-American players. Twice the Heisman Trophy was received by a player. Nineteen of their men have been admitted into Halls of Fame. The College Football Hall of Fame enshrined 15 while the NFL Hall of Fame accepted 4.

The total record of the team ranks them third in the category of the team with the most wins. Their record reveals 845-318-33 or a rate of winning amounting to .720. Other achievements are having the second most frequent invitations to Bowl games, ranking 8th for the most number of plays. 8.5 out of every ten polls include them in the top ranks. More than 33 % of the time, two polls will judge them to belong to the top ten teams and nearly half of the time they manage to get into top 25 lists.

The first University of Texas football team was launched in 1893, playing versus the Dallas Football club. That club was then adjudged the greatest in the state. The Texans determined to disprove that claim and did so with an upset victory of 18-16.

Under coach R. D. Wentworth, the team started out with force. Their first six opponents where shut out and the over-all score for those six games was 191-0. Subsequently Missouri also dealt Texas a blow with 38-0. However, Wentworth was determined to get a replay of his shutouts and in 1894, the team gave Texas A&M a sweeping 38-0. Later in that same year Oklahoma was to go down with a 28-2 score. The team scored 207-57-2-12 over this period.

The team then joined the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association. While with them, the team won two victories in 1913 and 1914. The following year the Longhorns switched to the Southwest Conference. By 1920, they managed to win the championship in that conference.

The team has won, all in all, 32 conference championships, the last three being in 1996, 2005 and 2009 when they had joined the Big 12 Conference. Its four national championships were taken in 1963, 1969, 1979 and 2005. In all but the 1970 win they grabbed the succeeding Bowl event.

The team has also played in four Bowl Championship Series Games, winning in 2005, 2006 and 2009. They lost in the 2010 game.

All their coaches have managed to leave them with records of more wins than losses. This accounts, in part, for the fact that the team enjoys great popularity with football buffs.

The team or some of its members have been honored by various awards. These include the Heisman Trophy for Most Outstanding Player, the Chic Harley Award for College Football Player of the Year, the Maxwell Award for Best Football Player, the AP Player of the Year for Most Outstanding Player and the Walter Camp Award for Player of the Year.

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