Urban Meyer rips Texas over blowout loss to Georgia: 'That can't happen'

On Saturday, Texas suffered its first loss of the season, falling 30-15 to Georgia. During an appearance on The Herd, former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer tore into the Longhorns for their lackluster performance.

“In the state of Texas, high school football is tough,” Meyer said. “So, I get it. I’ve heard that before. I’ll be honest, I don’t buy it. That can’t happen at Texas because the culture there, it starts in high school football.

“You better be a tough dude to go play high school football in Texas. I expect Texas to rebound, I really do. Sark has raised the level of expectation that that can’t happen. And it did happen. So they gotta rebound.”

Texas looked like a shell of itself in its latest showing. The Longhorns’ offense only tallied 259 total yards while committing a season-high four turnovers.

Texas’ offensive linemen failed to buy their teammates time, allowing the Bulldogs to amass seven sacks and 10 tackles for loss. Worse, Texas’ rushing attack sputtered, only averaging 1.1 yards per carry on 29 rushing attempts.

Despite Urban Meyer’s disappointment in Texas’ showing on Saturday, he’s confident the Longhorns will bounce back. After all, they’ve shown they’re more than capable of doing so in the past.

Last season, Oklahoma suffered a stunning loss to Oklahoma in Week 6. Instead of falling apart, the Longhorns rallied and went undefeated the rest of the regular season to reach the College Football Playoff.

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian hopes to see the same resiliency from his team this year.

“It’s a relatively similar situation in that every week is a championship game now,” Sarkisian said. “A lot of the teams that are at or near the top of our conference standings right now, we don’t play. Some of them we do, a lot of them we don’t. 

“We have to really make sure that we take care of our business one week at a time. We can’t just point to one or two games and say ‘If we win that one, we’re going to be OK.’ It really feels like from here on out, we’re kind of in an SEC Championship game. That’s the same mentality that we had last year in the Big 12, that every game matters to that degree, and we have to put ourselves in Atlanta, right?”