The 2018 college football season begins Saturday morning for Texas when the Longhorns set foot onto Fed Ex Field in Washington D.C. to face Maryland. Tom Herman's team will look to avenge its loss to the Terrapins last season, which caused the Herman era to start off with a losing record. Though the Longhorns made progress during Herman's first year coaching at Texas, it was difficult to shake the embarrassment the Terrapins handed the Longhorns.

The rematch between the two schools will not feature the same head coaches, as Terrapins' coach D.J. Durkin is on administrative leave following allegations of volatile behavior inside the program that were made public earlier this summer following the death of sophomore offensive lineman Jordan McNair. Herman will face Durkin's offensive coordinator and interim head coach Matt Canada come Saturday. Even with the on-going turmoil, Herman and the Longhorns know better than to overlook the Terrapins, and are approaching game week preparation with a focused mindset on taking down a team with enough talent to beat Texas, as made evident during last year's loss.

"This is a team in Maryland that they don't think they can beat you, they know they can beat you, because they have," Herman said at his Monday press conference. "There are a lot of guys on that team at Maryland that know that they've beaten Texas. They've got really, really, really good players. Really good players. That was very evident last year. They've got a lot of team speed. They've got a lot of physicality on defense.

"So to assume that just because they've had some issues in their program that they're not going to show up, they're going to show up. They're going to show up (Saturday) not just thinking they can beat us, but knowing that they can. There has been zero talk about that in our program, other than the fact that you better be ready for a dogfight versus a really good Power Five opponent."

The Longhorns released the above hype video ahead of the road game against Maryland, which is sure to get Texas fan's blood pumping (especially those who are Batman fans), while eagerly awaiting Saturday's 11 a.m. kickoff.