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Last Chance Saloon: No. 7 Texas is chasing a final Big 12 title before leaving for the SEC in 2024
Read full article: Last Chance Saloon: No. 7 Texas is chasing a final Big 12 title before leaving for the SEC in 2024In 28 seasons in the Big 12, Texas has only three league championships and none since 2009.
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Fred Akers, Texas coach who flirted with glory, dies at 82
Read full article: Fred Akers, Texas coach who flirted with glory, dies at 82AUSTIN, Texas – Fred Akers followed a coaching giant at Texas and came agonizingly close to glory himself with two undefeated seasons before his national title hopes ended in the Cotton Bowl. Akers then left Texas to become the head coach at Wyoming for two seasons before returning to Austin after Royal retired in 1976. Royal and Akers came from poor families in neighboring states — Royal from Oklahoma, Akers from Arkansas. And Akers won big, for a while, by disrupting some of what Royal had built but had become stale. After his firing at Texas, Akers spent four seasons at Purdue.