After outperforming expectations with a College Football Playoff berth and a Big 12 Championship in 2023, Texas football has set a high standard for itself in the SEC in 2024. Head coach Steve Sarkisian has undergone a process to keep Texas among the top contenders in college football entering their first year of competition in the SEC this upcoming season.
Texas also has a record number of early enrollees (18) from the 2024 signing class who will participate in spring ball. Among those 18 early enrollees are many talented former blue-chip recruits who can make an instant impact this upcoming season.
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The roster is in good shape for Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian entering the SEC for the 2024 season. The competition for spots on the two-deep during the spring can continue to flush out the roster while the young and talented players this staff signed on the recruiting trail in the last couple years step up into bigger roles.
After outperforming expectations with a College Football Playoff berth and a Big 12 Championship in 2023, Texas football has set a high standard for itself in the SEC in 2024. Head coach Steve Sarkisian has undergone a process to keep Texas among the top contenders in college football entering their first year of competition in the SEC this upcoming season.
Sarkisian and the Longhorns staff will return over half of their starters from last year’s squad in 2024. In some of the spots on the roster where the Longhorns lost key pieces, the staff turned to the NCAA Transfer Portal to add immediate impact starters.
Texas football has successfully reloaded the roster entering the SEC in 2024
Texas also has a record number of early enrollees (18) from the 2024 signing class who will participate in spring ball. Among those 18 early enrollees are many talented former blue-chip recruits who can make an instant impact this upcoming season.
It’s easy to see why Sarkisian and the Longhorns are expected to be a contender in the SEC and for the new 12-team College Football Playoff in 2024. Texas is developing players more consistently and putting more guys in the NFL year-over-year under Sarkisian in the last couple of years than it did in the prior under under the last few coaching regimes.
Part of the growth of this program is younger and more talented players eclipsing the more seasoned veterans on the depth chart with more earned reps in camp and practice. Texas had multiple true freshmen make an immediate impact in 2023. And that trend is likely to continue when the Longhorns enter the SEC in 2024.
