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    Texas Longhorns: Steve Sarkisian Is Building Alabama In Austin, According To An Awesome College Football Analyst

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    Aug 31, 2024; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian sings the alma matter with his players after defeating the Colorado State Rams at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Meullion-USA TODAY Sports

    Texas is facing a battle this weekend when it heads to play the defending champions, Michigan. Even though the Longhorns are favored in the game, it will be a tough test.

    Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is now in his fourth season with the program, and he’s ready to build on his success in 2023 when he made the college football playoffs.

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    Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian runs warm-ups ahead of the game against Colorado State at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024.

    Sarkisian spent time as Alabama’s offensive coordinator before taking the Texas head coaching job in 2021, and the 50-year-old head coach is trying to build his program like his former boss, Nick Saban. 

    During the CBS Inside College Football Show, former college football coach Rick Neuheisel discussed how Sarkisian is building Alabama in Austin.

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    Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian and Texas Longhorns defensive lineman T’Vondre Sweat smile as they walk off the field after beating the Kansas Jayhawks at Royal-Memorial Stadium on Saturday September 30, 2023.

    Neuheisel brought up what is happening in Texas, which is what happened in Athens under Kirby Smart and how Georgia won two national championships after Smart was Alabama’s defensive coordinator under Nick Saban.


    Smart took what he learned from Saban and built his program the same way, and now Sarkisian is doing the same thing, building Alabama in Austin.

    Sarkisian is building Texas in the same mindset Smart did at Georgia and follows the same plan that Saban showed the two while they were his assistants.

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    Oct 1, 2022; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian runs along the sidelines during the fourth quarter against the West Virginia Mountaineers at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ben Queen-USA TODAY Sports

    Neuheisel makes a lot of great points here, and the Longhorns are looking more and more like Alabama and what Georgia has done in the past few years.

    Many Nick Saban assistants have had trouble succeeding as head coaches, but Smart has done a wonderful job, and now Sarkisian is the next to build his program and win a title.

    Nick Saban might not be coaching anymore, but his impact is still all over the sport, and when you tune into Alabama, Texas, Georgia, and even Ole Miss games with head coach Lane Kiffin, you will see a lot of Saban-style teams, which is great for all of college football.

    It will be interesting to see how Texas does this weekend against Michigan, and hopefully, it lives up to the hype.

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    Daniel Fisher is a sports writer for Gridiron Heroics covering the NFL and College Football. He has been covering the NFL and College Football for the past two years and with a focus on the Cleveland Browns and Ohio State Buckeyes.

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