Incorrect. We wasted the best D in Texas football history in 1983. That was the #1 D in the country and is somewhat similar to this year. That year there was one game in which the D outscored our own Offense, against TCU, when the D turned the ball over and ran back two TOs for TDs, The offense scored one TD all game and we won 21-14 I believe. In the 1984 Cotton Bowl, our star kicker, a Freshman named Ward kicked 3 out of 5 FG attempts to give us 9 points. Georgia scored after the famous dropped punt by Craig Curry in the final four minutes and a couple of plays later Georgia scored a TD on a sweep that all Texas fans say they were guilting of holding but it wasn't called. 10-9 Georgia denied us a perfect season.
We didn't know the gravity of the game until that night when Nebraska lost to Miami in the Orange Bowl, 31-30. That was the famous game when Nebraska could have tied the game with an extra point and won the NC, but Osborne showed tremendous guts by going for two. The pass was incomplete, and Miami won the game.
If either of Jeff Ward's missed kicks in the CB were good, or Curry simply stays away from the punt, we would have another National Championship.
If Edwin Simmons had been born with legs more or less equal in length he would not have been injured after the Oklahoma game and we would have had a RB who could hit the hole quicker than anybody else, and we would have had a very good running attack.
If Fred Akers had given Rob Moerschell a serious chance at QB in the 1984 CB almost all Texas fans believe we would have scored a TD on one of his drives, because Georgia had prepared extensively for Rick McIvor, because Rick had the game of his life in the 45-13 route of Aggy, throwing I believe 4 TD passes. Rick had a golden arm and despite not starting much in college was drafted into the NFL.
Btw, that Texas D had at about 12 players drafted into the NFL. I distinctly remember one backup getting drafted, a DB.