Texas is best team in college football? You’ve gotta be kidding after that mess

KNOXVILLE, TN – Texas is the No. 1 team in college football? You've got to be kidding me.

Seriously, I find it hard to believe after watching this 3½-hour sack-fest.

If that’s the best team in the nation, then every challenger from Georgia to Mississippi to Miami to Notre Dame must be licking their chops for a chance to play Texas.

Texas looks glitchy. Shaky. Beatable. Just because No. 13 Tennessee couldn’t pull it off, don’t think that means a loss (or, more than one) isn’t coming.

Will Muschamp’s defense refused to let No. 1 Texas lose to a quarterback making his first career SEC start.

Steve Sarkisian’s offense kept giving way to the punter.

Texas survived, 20-17, in a game it tried to give away.

The Longhorns won despite six three-and-outs, seven punts, and one 15-yard penalty after a star player pretended to urinate on the field.

Tennessee was inside Texas territory after recovering an onside kick with a chance to win the game, before the Longhorns sacked Faizon Brandon for a 10th time to prevent a white-knuckle game from becoming a shocking collapse.

"All respect to our skill guys, but games like this are won in the trenches,"…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/