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Texas posts a team record 3.31 GPA in spring 2025

Joe Cookby:Joe Cook•05/15/25•

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Steve Sarkisian
Steve Sarkisian ( Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Steve Sarkisian spoke a few weeks ago about his anticipation for his team’s semester GPA. Well, he should be happy with the results. Texas football posted a 3.31 team GPA in the spring semester, a new team record.

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For Sarkisian, team GPA correlates with team success. It fits in with his “who you are some of the time is who you are all of the time.” That was indicated by his words a few weeks ago at the Touchdown Club of Houston.

“I got hired in January of 2021,” Sarkisian said. “At the end of the spring semester, (Chris Del Conte) gives me my cumulative team GPA from the fall and spring semesters that year. It was a 2.33. I thought to myself, that’s not very good. I love UT. I get it, we’re the No. 3 public university in the country, but we should be better than that.

“Well what came of that? We were a 5-7 football team that fall that blew six straight second half leads. What came out of that? We had zero NFL draft picks. Year two rolls around, our team GPA comes back to me and we’re at 2.78. We went 8-5 and we had five NFL draft picks and one first rounder.

“Year three rolls around and we’re at a 2.98 team GPA now. We go 12-2, we win the Big 12, and we get 11 players drafted in the NFL draft. Kind of a common thread happening here, right?

“Next year rolls around, we have a 3.27 team GPA. We go 13-3, we go to the SEC championship game, we go back to the CFP semifinals, and we just had 12 players drafted this weekend. It’s crazy to think, from a player’s standpoint, and I put this stat up: who you are some of the time is who you are all the time.

“If we want to be a really good football team, if we want to be a really disciplined football team, we’ve got to be a disciplined football team off the field as much as we want to be a disciplined football team on the field.

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“I’m holding my breath to see what the heck CDC is going to give me here in about two weeks for our team GPA this year, because it’s probably going to serve as a pretty good precursor for what we can expect this fall.”

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