12 days until Texas Football: Colt McCoy remains at the top of UT's passing record book
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We’ll also look back at other greats to wear that day’s number, with special reverence to some of Texas’ best.
Today is 12 days until kickoff. No. 12 for the Longhorns is retired in honor of Colt McCoy. We’ll look at the passing records still held by McCoy.
It’s McCoy and everyone else
Texas’ propensity to have a run-first-and-second offense from the days of the Wishbone to when Cedric Benson graduated placed a governor on just how high some of the school’s passing records could be. Vince Young took some of the ceiling off before Colt McCoy blew it away.
The list of records McCoy set and continues to hold is staggering. They are…
Most passing yards in a game: 470 vs. UCF – 11/7/2009
Most passing yards in a season: 3859 – 2008
Most passing yards in a career: 13253
Highest pass efficiency rating in a season: 173.8 – 2008
Highest pass efficiency in a career: 155.0
Most quarterback victories: 45
Most quarterback starts: 54
Most attempts in a season: 470 – 2009
Most attempts in a career: 1645
Most completions in a game: 41 vs. Ohio State – 1/5/2009
Most completions in a season: 332 – 2008 and 2009
Most completions in a career: 1157
Most consecutive completions: 18 vs. Oklahoma State – 10/25/2008
Most passes intercepted in a career: 45 (tied with Peter Gardere)
Highest completion percentage in a game: 90.6 (29-of-32) vs. Missouri – 10/18/2008
Highest completion percentage in a season: 76.7 (332-of-433) – 2008
Highest completion percentage in a career: 70.3 (1157-of-1645)
Most touchdown passes in a game: 6 vs. Baylor – 2006 (tied with Casey Thompson vs. Kansas – 2021)
Most touchdown passes in a season: 34 – 2008
Most touchdown passes in a career: 112
Consecutive games with a TD pass: 29
Consecutive games with two TD passes: 8
Games with a TD pass: 48
Games with two or more TD passes: 34
Most 300-yard games in a career: 15
Most 300-yard games in a season: 6 – 2008
All-Americans to wear No. 12
Colt McCoy, QB, 2008 and 2009
Earl Thomas, DB, 2009
