Kirby Smart and his Georgia Bulldogs have Texas' number, and a lot of that is the Longhorns' own doing. 

On Saturday night, Texas made costly mistakes from start to finish. The first quarter alone saw its wide receivers drop four passes, leading to stalled drives and just three points. 

Then it was the penalties that started to rack up. By game's end, the Longhorns finished with nine penalties, compared to Georgia's one. Four of those nine flags were for offensive holding, making it hard for quarterback Arch Manning and company to move the ball down the field.

Finally, in the second half, when Texas had clawed its way back into the contest, two Bulldogs' fourth-down conversions, including a disastrous offside from star edge rusher Colin Simmons on fourth and five, turned the momentum right back into Georgia's favor.

The Bulldogs outplayed the Longhorns on the field, but the Horns did themselves no favors.

"It's not like (it was) the big bad Georgia Bulldogs... we hurt ourselves," Texas safety Michael Taaffe said.

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian echoed a similar sentiment postgame.

"We dropped some passes, we missed a couple of throws, we get some holding penalties, and we had some self-inflicted wounds in there," Sarkisian said. "I felt like we had a pretty good plan, but we weren't able to stack it all together to make it work."

He also had some pretty blunt words about the fourth quarter, where Georgia outscored Texas 21-0.

"The fourth quarter was a disaster," Sarkisian said.

And this isn't a one-off. The Longhorns have played a huge part in their own demise in all five of their losses to Georgia and Ohio State the past two seasons. Last year, against the Bulldogs, an offensive disaster class in the regular season, and a special teams meltdown in the SEC championship proved to much to overcome. 

Against the Buckeyes, Texas has faltered in the red zone, scoring just 21 points in the team's past two meetings. Combine that with the Longhorns losing the penalty battle in four of those five games, and you have a 0-5 record with tons of question marks floating over the team. 

This pattern in Texas' biggest games points to one thing... coaching.

Yes, it's the players making the crucial mistakes on the field, but teams with similar talent across the country(like Georgia and Ohio State) don't make nearly as many mistakes as the Longhorns.

Texas is teetering on the edge of becoming an elite program in college football, but every opportunity to get over that hump is met with a harsh reality that shows it's not ready yet.

And until Sark and the coaching staff fix their team's miscues, it'll stay that way.