The road belongs to Texas – Longhorns aim to remain perfect in true road games this weekend

• November 5, 2022 - Texas 34, No. 13 Kansas State 27
• November 19, 2022 - Texas 55, Kansas 14
• September 9, 2023 - Texas 34, No.3 Alabama 24
• September 23, 2023 - Texas 38, Baylor 6
• October 21, 2023 - Texas 31, Houston 24
• November 11, 2023 - Texas 29, TCU 26
• November 18, 2023 - Texas 26, Iowa State 16
• September 7, 2024 - Texas 31, No. 10 Michigan 12
• October 26, 2024 - Texas 27, No. 25 Vanderbilt 24
• November 16, 2024 - Texas 20, Arkansas 10
• November 30, 2024 - Texas 17, No. 20 Texas A&M 7

If, and it's a big IF, Texas can win Saturday, the streak will be in jeopardy later this fall.

“We’ve talked about this at length before the season, but we’ve got a tough road slate this year, and this is the first one of a few to come, and so it serves us good to have to go on the road early, find out about ourselves, find out where we’re at, where we’re at as a program, where we can improve, and where we can continue to get better,” Sarkisian said. “We’re going to travel more than any other SEC team this year in our conference, and so this is a great opportunity for us to go do that naturally."

Per Inside Texas' Evan Vieth, between the five true road games and the Red River Rivalry in Dallas, Texas will rack up over 4,700 miles of travel before even sniffing a conference championship game or the College Football Playoff.

Steve Sarkisian talks a lot about the standard at Texas and the "process" the program has implemented for road games.

“We believe in our process on the road. We’ve won 11 in a row on the road now, and they haven’t been easy. They’ve all been very difficult. Going on the road is tough,” Sarkisian said. “But this is a heck of a matchup for a great environment against a really good team who’s really well-coached, who’s had a ton of success.

“I think we trust our process. You know, we’ve got a real process that we believe in, starting this morning and what our practice plans look like, and crowd noise that we work with, and then to Friday’s routine, to game day’s routine, and to really toning out what’s going on outside of us and focusing on what’s going on between the white lines."

Texas has emphasized the habit of overcoming adversity. It starts in practice and it comes to fruition on Saturdays.

“I think doing it with confidence, knowing that adversity will strike, and then having a next-play mentality, having the mental toughness to persevere, to get on the other side of some of that adversity, I think, is really important as well,” Sarkisian said. “But mostly it’s staying connected. It’s staying connected on the sidelines, being enamored with what we need to do, and not getting so caught up in what’s going on around us.”