University of Texas Longhorns

The team was led by the 2008 runner up to the Heisman Trophy, QB Colt McCoy who finished his career at Texas as the most successful college quarterback in football history winning an NCAA-record 45 game. He set a number of NCAA marks (Highest Single Completion Percentage – 77.6%, the only QB in college football history to have at least ten wins per season for all four seasons, most wins by a starting QB in NCAA Division I history – 45). He also won a number of awards in 2009 beginning with the 2009 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Offensive MVP, First Team All American by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, Walter Camp Foundation, Rivals.com and Scout.com, First team All-Big 12, Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, the NCAA Quarterback of the Year, the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, the Davey O’Brien Award, the Chic Harley Award, the Maxwell Award, the Walter Camp Award, Sporting News College Athlete of the Year and the AT&T ESPN All-America Player of the Year.

The Longhorns finished the year at 13-1 and 8-0 in Big 12 play and finished ranked #2 in the BCS and earned a berth in the BCS Championship game against the #1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide. In the BCS Championship game, QB Colt McCoy was knocked out of the game on only the 5th play from the line of scrimmage to be replaced by true freshman Garrett Gilbert and by halftime the score was 24-0 in favor of Alabama.

The Texas team never gave up and in the 2nd half racked up 15 points to Alabama’s 13 but there wasn’t enough time to overcome such a large deficit and the Horns fell 37-21.

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