Team Notes
• Texas wins its first National Championship since 1970
• Texas completes its first undefeated season since 1969.
• Texas' win is the 800th in school history.
• Texas defeated a No. 1-ranked team for the first time since defeating Oklahoma on October 12, 1963.
• Texas has won 13 games for the first time in school history.
• Texas now owns the longest active winning streak in the nation at 20 games.
• Texas' 20-game winning streak is the second-longest streak in school history (30, 1968-70).
• Texas is now 2-0 in the Rose Bowl and BCS games.
• With a 13-0 record, Texas has won 13 games in a season for the first time in school history.
• Texas is now 5-3 in bowl games under Mack Brown.
• Texas has now defeated nine straight ranked opponents.
• Texas' 652 points are an NCAA record for points scored in a season. The previous was 624 by Nebraska in 1983.
• The 2005 team has now set a new single-season total yards record with 6,657, passing the 2003 team (5,709).
Texas finished the game with 556 yards for 6,657 and its first 6,000 yard total offense season.
• Texas is now 71-0 when outrushing an opponent, 47-0 when rushing for more than 200 yards and 64-2 when recording more than 400 total yards in a game under Mack Brown.
• Vince Young has now recorded over 1,000 yards rushing this season, giving Texas a 1,000-yard rusher for the 11th consecutive season.
• With 5 rushing TDs, Texas has 55 for the season, setting a new single-season record (52; 1969 and 1970).
• Texas completes the season without allowing an opening drive score.
• Texas has recorded at least 400 yards of total offense in 11 of 13 games this season.
• The 2005 team has now set a new single-season total yards record with 6,657, passing the 2003 team (5,709).
Texas finished the game with 556 yards for 6,657 and its first 6,000 yard total offense season.
• Texas is now 71-0 when outrushing an opponent, 47-0 when rushing for more than 200 yards and 64-2 when recording more than 400 total yards in a game under Mack Brown.
• Vince Young has now recorded over 1,000 yards rushing this season, giving Texas a 1,000-yard rusher for the 11th consecutive season.
• With 5 rushing TDs, Texas has 55 for the season, setting a new single-season record (52; 1969 and 1970) • Texas completes the season without allowing an opening drive score.
• Texas has recorded at least 400 yards of total offense in 11 of 13 games this season.

Individual Notes
Vince Young
• With 200 rushing yards, Young has 1,050 this season, becoming the first player in NCAA history to rush for more than 1,000 yards and pass for more than 3,000 in the same season.
• Young became the third player in UT history to pass for 3,000 yards in a single season with a total of 3,045 -- the third-highest single-season total in UT history.
• Young became the fifth player to rush for over 100 yards against USC in the last 46 games.
• Young's two fourth-quarter rushing TDs were his 10th and 11th this season and the 36th of his career (T-No. 4 on the UT career list with Steve Worster).
• Young has rushed and thrown for more than 100 yards in a game eight times in his career. Only three other QBs in UT history have accomplished that and each did it only once.
• Young completed his first nine passes of the game, and the last six of the Big 12 Championship game, giving him 15 consecutive, setting a new UT record. Young owned the previous mark of 14 as well.
• Young has totaled at least 250 yards of total offense in 10 of 13 games this season.
• With 200 yards rushing and 267 yards passing Young recorded his second game with at least 200 yards both rushing and passing. The first time Young accomplished this feat was Oct. 29, 2005 at Oklahoma State, recording 267 rushing yards and 239 passing yards.
• Young becomes the first player in NCAA history to rush and pass for at least 200 yards in two games.
• With two fourth-quarter touchdowns, Vince Young has orchestrated six fourth-quarter comebacks in his career.
• Young is now 30-2 as a starter. His .938 winning percentage is the sixth-best in NCAA history.
• Young's 30 completions tie the UT single-game record with Major Applewhite, who did so twice in 1999.

David Thomas
• Thomas set a UT record for most receptions in a game by a tight end with 10.
• Thomas set a new career high with 10 receptions (T-6th on UT Top 10 receptions list).
• Thomas tied his career high in receptions with six in the first half.
• With 88 receiving yards, Thomas has 613 this season, moving him to second on UT's single season TEs list, passing Pat Fitzgerald (545, 1996).
• Thomas has caught at least three passes in six consecutive games and 10 of 13 this season. He has caught at least one pass in 12 of 13.

Ramonce Taylor
• Taylor's second-quarter rushing TD is his 12th this season and the 13th of his career. He has rushed for a TD in five of the last six games.

Billy Pittman
• Pittman has caught at least two passes in nine of 13 games this season.

Limas Sweed
• Sweed set a new season and career high with eight receptions.
• Sweed has caught at least three passes in four consecutive games and six total this season.

Michael Huff
• Huff recovered his second fumble of the season and the third of his career.

David Pino
• Pino's second quarter field goal of 46 yards is a career long. His previous long of 45 yards came this season at Oklahoma State.
• Pino finished the season with 113 points, setting a new UT single-season kick scoring record, breaking Phil Dawson's mark of 108 in 1996.
• Pino's 113 points is the seventh-best overall single-season scoring total.

Michael Griffin
• Griffin's second-quarter interception is his third this season and the fourth of his career.

Selvin Young
• Young's second-quarter rushing TD was his eighth this season and the 18th of his career.

Frank Okam
• Okam's two second-quarter sacks were his first two this season and give him four for his career.

Game Captains: Ahmard Hall, David Thomas, Rod Wright, Vince Young
Coin Toss: Texas won the toss and chose to defer to the second half.