... has used the "us against the world" approach to Thursday's national championship game. His reasons are the Longhorns' previous game against Nebraska in the Big 12 title game and Alabama's performance against Florida in the SEC title game.

And those reasons are understandable.

Texas struggled mightily against a top-10 Nebraska defense, while Alabama throttled the previous top-ranked Florida Gators, which, at the time, boasted the No. 1 defense statistically.

This performance by both Texas and Alabama has prompted the rallying cry from the Longhorn faithful of "Remember 2005!"

That year, USC was the odds-on favorite heading into the game, as Texas went on to pull the upset in what will go down as possibly one of the greates...

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