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Texas Longhorns exit Big 12 same way it arrived - as champions
Texas won the last Southwest Conference and first Big 12 championships. The win over Oklahoma State gave the Longhorns a Big 12 crown in final season before move to SEC.
An “Irish Goodbye”, where guests at a public event leave abruptly and without a farewell, is well known in our lexicon. A “Longhorn Farwell” is likely to join soon. That refers to a team leaving a conference with the championship belt in tow. They did it in 1995 by winning the last Southwest Conference championship. Texas pulled it off again in a dominant 49-21 win over Oklahoma State to claim the final Big 12 championship before the program heads to the SEC.
The Longhorns leave the Big 12 on a win streak against each of the remaining legacy Big 12 members except Oklahoma, and Texas will see plenty of the Sooners in the new conference.
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