Texas has gotten exactly what they deserve, and the rest of the SEC is loving it

Texas has now set a modern record for the quickest team to start the season ranked no. 1 overall and then drop out of the AP rankings completely.

The AP Poll began ranking 25 teams in 1989, meaning that no team in 35 years has ever done this. As a matter of fact, they were nearly twice as quick to do so as their nearest competitor: USC back in 2012 dropped out of the polls on November 18, the 12th poll of the season, and Texas did so in the 6th poll of the season.

Given how SEC fans have been tired of the Longhorns since, oh, only about two months into their tenure as a football member of the conference, this has been quite the spectacle across the conference. You'd have to scramble hard to find a single non-Longhorn source that has Texas ranked in the top ten of the conference, as the mask is beginning to fully come off of this mediocre-at-best program.

SEC fans loving Texas's record-setting fall from grace

The reactions to Texas's record-fast slide from the top spot to out of the polls were positively gleeful:

The attitude around the college football landscape has been largely the same. Ever since it became clear in game one that Arch Manning was nothing near to what we had been promised, fans from around the country have been declaring the Longhorns as frauds— but four weeks that entailed three games against cupcakes and a bye was enough for most Texas fans to convince themselves that they had simply imagined what happened up in Columbus.

A loss to a Florida team that had so recently fallen to the South Florida Bulls (yes, a game that took place in The Swamp, the venue which many Texas beat writers are now attempting to credit for the Longhorn's loss) just reminded everyone how bad things are in Austin.

This is especially sweet for Texas A&M football fans. We all remember the ignominious spring on the baseball diamond, where the Aggies were the preseason no. 1-ranked team and fell out of the rankings rather quickly as well. Texas was more than eager to let A&M fans hear about that— and less than a year later, they've done something even more embarrassing.

The baseball piece is one thing for A&M— an injury to Gavin Grahovac, certain members of the pitching staff, and a change in head coach make it somewhat obvious in retrospect. But Texas football is working with a head man in his fifth year, a quarterback in his third, and a defense that everyone was saying would be elite.

There's no fanbase that deserves it more, and everyone in the country knows it. Texas is favored to beat Oklahoma right now in Red River this weekend (only because Mateer is not expected to play), but if they lose to a Michael Hawkins-led Sooner team, the season may come apart at the seams— much to the enjoyment of the entire conference.