This is uncharted territory for the Texas Longhorns .

Twenty years after the program’s last national championship, the Longhorns will begin the 2025 college football season ranked No. 1 in the US LBM Coaches Poll , earning 28 of 67 first-place votes thanks in large part to a potentially unmatched collection of talent paced by third-year sophomore quarterback Arch Manning.

This is a first: Texas had never been ranked No. 1 in the preseason in the history of the Coaches Poll, which debuted in the 1950 season.

“This is a new year, new faces, new team, and obviously expectations are high for our program,” coach Steve Sarkisian said at SEC media days. “I'm not naive to that. I don't put my head in the sand, and expectations are very high.”

The preseason ranking can be seen as the latest

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