64 Days Until Kickoff: Who Is Your Favorite No. 64? (Hampton vs Studdard)

[Blake Munroe]

We’re 64 days away from Texas football.

Today’s No. 64 group is loaded with some serious big-man history.

Casey Hampton headlines it... two-time First-Team All-American, 2000 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, 329 career tackles, 54 TFL, 5-time NFL Pro Bowler and 2-time Super Bowl champ. One of the best defensive tackles to ever come through Texas.

Kasey Studdard was a key piece of the 2005 national title team, who earned All-Big 12 honors in both 2005 and 2006, helped clear the way for one of the most explosive offenses in Texas history, and won the Joseph W. Moore Award for Tenacity, which pretty much sums up the way he played. 

Bobby Mitchell was a Hall of Honor offensive lineman from the late-60s/early-70s run that included two national titles and three SWC championships.

And Frank Bedrick owns one of the biggest individual plays in Texas bowl history: helping stuff Joe Namath on fourth-and-one at the goal line to preserve the Longhorns’ upset of No. 1 Alabama in the 1965 Orange Bowl.

Who is your favorite?

[General Grant]

I’ll take a different approach.  #64 manned by at least two guy that would kick your ass. 

[Beldar]

Can not  choose between Hampton and Studdard, Other two I like a lot also.

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 12:59 PM by Beldar

[GoHorns1]

HAMPTON!!!!

[Thailand T Sip]

This might be the most solid quartet to wear a single number. I'm old enough to have watched 3 of the 4. My dad told me many times over the years about Bedrick's stop. Especially, during SB III while Broadway Joe pulled his Babe Ruth pointing to the fence shot. Still Hampton has to be the highest. A NT leading a team in tackles... 

 

[Here for the Wins]

Hampton is special.  Unique.  Dominant.

[Oldest Horn]

3 hours ago, General Grant said:

I’ll take a different approach.  #64 manned by at least two guy that would kick your ass. 

I’ll go with 4. 

[tommym]

Hampton was a beast. No slight to studdard. But, Hampton was unstoppable. Studdard was just mean and tough, galvanized that offensive line. 

[Inspired73]

Wow, what a great group.  All of these guys were super.

As a Galveston guy, I will always be a Big Casey is numero uno.   

I became a life-long Horn with the 65 Orange Bowl.  4th and goal for the game.   Not one Alabama offensive lineman made it to the line of scrimmage.....much less Joe Namath.  But the picture of that play on my wall as a high schooler.  Mitchel was at Texas when I was there.  30 straight wins! Royal teams never ever made mistakes like we see today.  There were no off-sides, holdings, motion, illegal blocks, busted assignments.  The message was clear, "You F-up and another all-american is waiting to replace you." 

[Oldest Horn]

1 hour ago, Inspired73 said:

Wow, what a great group.  All of these guys were super.

As a Galveston guy, I will always be a Big Casey is numero uno.   

I became a life-long Horn with the 65 Orange Bowl.  4th and goal for the game.   Not one Alabama offensive lineman made it to the line of scrimmage.....much less Joe Namath.  But the picture of that play on my wall as a high schooler.  Mitchel was at Texas when I was there.  30 straight wins! Royal teams never ever made mistakes like we see today.  There were no off-sides, holdings, motion, illegal blocks, busted assignments.  The message was clear, "You F-up and another all-american is waiting to replace you." 

I remember about 5 Texas turnovers during the great shootout. Just sayin. 

[CJ Vogel]

Some great options for #64

[HonkEm]

4 hours ago, GoHorns1 said:

HAMPTON!!!!

lol, Studdard. Obviously. The guy played guard like he was trying to get flagged for targeting. Hampton was a perfectly respectable “he exists” roster entry, but Studdard was out there committing weekly felonies in broad daylight and getting praised for it on ESPN

[HonkEm]

14 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

Some great options for #64

Didn't Blake Brockermeyer wear #64 early in his career?

[Alex Butler]

Gotta go with Hampton on this. But love me some Studdard too. The great C/Kaseys of Texas!!

[GoHorns1]

21 minutes ago, HonkEm said:

lol, Studdard. Obviously. The guy played guard like he was trying to get flagged for targeting. Hampton was a perfectly respectable “he exists” roster entry, but Studdard was out there committing weekly felonies in broad daylight and getting praised for it on ESPN

Hampton would kick Studdard ass one on one

Hampton lead the in tackles in back to back with 100 plus each year says everything.

Edited 23 hours ago by GoHorns1

[HonkEm]

2 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

Hampton would kick Studdard ass one on one

Studdard was out there treating defensive tackles like they personally insulted his mother. 😀

[GoHorns1]

1 minute ago, HonkEm said:

Studdard was out there treating defensive tackles like they personally insulted his mother. 😀

Yes he did, but Hampton did same to OL.

Would love to have seem the Oklahoma drill between them.

[Jeff Howe]

Casey Hampton is in the College Football Hall of Fame.

He had a 100-tackle season as a nose tackle while getting double- and triple-teamed on just about every snap.

He led the team in tackles — as a nose — two years in a row.

When the Pittsburgh Steelers' all-time defensive line is basically the Steel Curtain and you, you're in rarified air.

I love me some Kasey Studdard. But it's Casey Hampton, all day, every day for me.

[CoachScott619]

Hampton wins but both are legends.

[Burnt Orange Horn]

All 4 for me.  Each is historical, and the one loss 1964 team is glossed over too often for its 1 failed 2 point conversion against Arkansas at home.  The Orange Bowl win against Bama with Bryant and Namath was monumental.

🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

[PaulieD]

They both played mean.

[Oldest Horn]

20 hours ago, GoHorns1 said:

Yes he did, but Hampton did same to OL.

Would love to have seem the Oklahoma drill between them.

Hampton was still making Pro Bowls when Studdard couldn’t stick on an NFL roster. 

[Here for the Wins]

1 hour ago, Oldest Horn said:

Hampton was still making Pro Bowls when Studdard couldn’t stick on an NFL roster. 

Thing that wows me more than anything was that he played two different roles.  From all over the field at Texas to run plugging NT at the Steelers.  I’m talking style of play at Texas not specifically the position.

[Jeff Howe]

11 minutes ago, Here for the Wins said:

Thing that wows me more than anything was that he played two different roles.  From all over the field at Texas to run plugging NT at the Steelers.  I’m talking style of play at Texas not specifically the position.

Playing nose in an odd front is a thankless job. He did it about as well as anybody has in the last 25 years in the NFL.