The Texas Longhorns' 2023 success included superstar play at many positions, namely kicker.senior placekicker bert auburn This plays a key role in the University of Texas advancing to the Big 12 Championship and the College Football Playoff in 2023, and will continue in 2024 as well, along with some school history related to passing the ball through the uprights. It should earn you the top spot on the leaderboard.
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Auburn, a Flower Mound, Texas, native, is a walk-on and has served as the Longhorns' full-time placekicker for the past two seasons. He went 21-for-26 for 49 yards in 2022, followed by 29-for-35 in 2023, including a career-best 54 yards against Texas Tech late in the season. He is 61-for-50 in his career. The 50 points put him fifth in the school record books behind Jeff Ward and Chris Stockton (58 points), Phil Dawson (59 points) and Cameron Dicker (60 points).
Ten more goals, which took him six games to accomplish in 2023, would put him ahead of former teammate Dicker and Dawson, Stockton, Russell Erxleben, Happy Feller, Dusty Mangum and Hunter Hunter. Lawrence, Justin Tucker, David Pino, Ryan Bailey and All-American Anthony Ferra. Success or failure, if he makes 19 more kicks, Auburn will hold the school record for most attempts.
Additionally, Auburn has yet to miss a single of its 114 extra point attempts. With eight more points, Auburn will break Mangum's record for consecutive points.
In 2023, Auburn tied a school record by making 19 consecutive field goals from the game against Oklahoma to the regular-season finale at Texas Tech, making all five of its field goal attempts in the process. His Big 12 Championship campaign, in which Auburn earned first-team All-Big 12 honors, set school records for the number of field goals made and field goals attempted in a season.
“As you keep kicking, the goalposts look a little wider than normal,” Auburn said last year.
With the Longhorns struggling in the red zone last season, Auburn had plenty of opportunities to turn the Texas offense's efforts into three points. His ability to score field goals and extend his defense is Steve Sarkisian I have great confidence in his specialists.
“I feel very comfortable with Bart within 50 yards considering the wind and everything,” Sarkisian said in November. “He gives me confidence. For the second year in a row, this player gave us a chance with a really big kick in a key moment in the fourth quarter of the game.”
Auburn has the name and hairstyle to turn heads in the Southeastern Conference. He is also adept at marketing his own name, image and likeness, as he co-starred with former Alabama kicker Will Reichard in a Goldman Sachs commercial filmed at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. are doing.
This kind of attention coming into Texas' first season in the SEC, coupled with a third straight year of quality place kicking, could elevate Auburn into the national consciousness in a way we haven't seen at the 40 Acres when it comes to kickers. For the first time in over ten years. Despite his impressive college career, Dicker received more praise as a punter than as a kicker. The last Texas kicker to earn first-team All-American honors was Fela in 2013. No Longhorn has ever won the Lou Groza Award, given annually to the nation's top placekicker.
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If Auburn puts together an award-worthy season in 2024, it could make University of Texas history. The path to those honors includes etching his name atop UT's place-kicking leaderboard.
