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18Feb
What year did Texas win the national championship?
The Texas Longhorns won the national championship in 2005, becoming the first team from a Big 12 conference school to win a title since Nebraska in 1997. Led by quarterback Vince Young, Texas outlasted the defending champion USC Trojans in a thrilling Rose Bowl, 41-38. Under head coach Mack Brown, the Longhorns went 13-0 that season, also winning the Big 12 South Division and the Big 12 Championship. The victory capped off a remarkable turnaround for Texas, which had gone 5-7 the previous year and had not won a national championship since 1970. The victory was also the first for Texas in a major bowl game since the 1969 Cotton Bowl.