Nobody else on the schedule - whether they were the defending national champions or the entirety of the first season in the SEC or the champions of the Big 12/ACC - could exit the field after the final whistle believing with a straight face that they were the better, more talented team.
That's what collecting super blue chip talent can get you when you have a lot of it and when Texas entered the 2024 season, it trailed only Ohio State, Georgia and Alabama for the most high-end recruiting/Portal talent in all of college football.
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