Texas beat a top-10 team last year in Alabama , but the Longhorns were not a top-10 team themselves. That fact extended a strange streak associated with the program.
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A Texas team ranked in the top-10 has not traveled to the home of another top-10 team in the AP poll since November 1, 2008. That’s a date that sticks out in Longhorns’ fans memory for all the wrong reasons, as it’s when No. 1 Texas lost 39-33 to the No. 6 Texas Tech Red Raiders in Lubbock.
That could change this Saturday, as the new AP Poll comes out today after the Labor Day weekend slate. Texas was ranked No. 4 and is unlikely to move. Michigan entered the 2024 campaign ranked No. 9, and nobody ahead of the Wolverines dropped their season-openers.
That should set up a top-10 road trip that’s 16 years in the making.
Some of this data was used last year , but it’s still applicable before the Longhorns head to Michigan.
There have been a number of occasions where Texas entered the home of or played a neutral site game versus a top-10 team, only for the Longhorns themselves to be just outside the elite group of 10 or unranked altogether. Those trips include: