Carrying Your Love With Me

George Strait was topping charts in 1997 with "Carrying Your Love With Me". The average price of gas was $1.23 per gallon, President Bill Clinton was serving his second term, and on September 13, 1997, Texas was beat down by UCLA 66-3. That game known as "Rout 66" would be the turning point in the career of John Mackovic. Texas finished 4-7 season that season and just one year before they won the inaugural Big 12 Championship in 1996. That same year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Mack Brown was leading the University of North Carolina to a new birth in football. The Tarheels went on to their second straight 10 win season and a Gator Bowl bid. Brown would leave to take the University of Texas head coaching job. Now in 2010, Brown may be looking to repeat what John Mackovic did in 1997.

September 25, 2010, The Longhorns, who were favored, would lose to UCLA, 34-12. Following this disappointing defeat, Mack has seem to lose his team with eerily similarity to the Mackovic team. Both Brown and Mackovic won Big 12 titles the previous year and after all they both have Mack in their names. Since Brown arrived in Austin he has managed to reach a bowl game every year. His first year in 1998, Texas would finish 9-3 with a victory in the Cotton Bowl against the Mississippi State Bulldogs and would continue a bowling every year since.

1999- Cotton Bowl, Arkansas (lost 27-6)
2000- Holiday Bowl, Oregon (lost 35-30)
2001- Holiday Bowl, Washington (won 47-43)
2002- Cotton Bowl, LSU (won 35-20)
2003- Holiday Bowl, Washington State (lost 28-20)
2004- Rose Bowl, Michigan (won 38-37)
2005- Rose Bowl, USC (won 41-38). National Champions
2006- Alamo Bowl, Iowa (won 26-24)
2007- Holiday Bowl, Arizona State (won 52-34)
2008- Fiesta Bowl, Ohio State (won 24-21)
2009- BCS National Championship Game, Alabama (lost 37-21)

Texas is sitting at 4-5 record with 3 games remaining. If they can't manage to win two of their remaining three games it will mark the first time since 1997 they are not bowl eligible. The three remaining game are all in Austin but, still have to play the #10 ranked Oklahoma State, Florida Atlantic (3-5), and the #25 Texas A&M Aggies. Where will the two wins come from?

Mack Brown has managed to mirror John Mackovic's 1997 season. The question is what will the final result be?