Steve Sarkisian reveals what made him proudest in opener with Alabama looming

Texas took care of business in their week one game against Louisiana-Monroe winning handily 52-10. The Longhorns face perennial powerhouse Alabama in week 2, and Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian applauded his team for staying focused on this week’s game and not looking ahead to their marquee matchup versus the Crimson Tide.

“A couple things, one that’s one of the things I’m really most proud of our guys. I think we’ve been all watching the games here today and there’s been a couple games everyone thought were gonna go a certain way and didn’t where it was a heavily favored team or a team everybody thought was gonna just walk out on the field and roll the ball out and come out with a big win,” Sarkisian said. “And a couple teams ended up losing those games, couple of them were in a lot tighter games than they were anticipating. So for our guys to handle it the way they did tonight and do it in the fashion they did, that was really encouraging.”

The Longhorns were definitely focused on the task at hand this weekend, as both sides of the ball were firing on all cylinders for them. But regarding their next game, Sarkisian said the focus will be more about them and less about Alabama.

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“But honestly I didn’t mention anything about next week’s game to our guys, I haven’t mentioned that game since that game got put on our schedule and since I’ve been here. The focus was on this game and what we needed to do this game to play our brand of football, our style of football. I think we’re on the right course to go do that, I’ve got the upmost respect for Alabama, and Nick Saban, and that organization, and that team, which y’all know that. And so we need a good week of preparation and we need to focus on the things that we need to improve upon, which there’s plenty there.,” Sarkisian said.

Alabama is coming off of an SEC title win last season and an impressive 52-point game of their own in week 1, as they defeated Utah State 52-0. Hopefully for the Longhorns, their focus on themselves this week will lead to success at home on Saturday, as they face what will likely be their tallest task of the season.

“We need to focus on the game plan as we start working into that so that we can go, again, go play our style, our brand of football” Sarkisian added. “We can’t get enamored with Alabama, we have to be enamored with us and what we need to do to play effective football next Saturday.”