Before their season opener against Louisiana Tech, members of Texas’ defensive secondary did their pregame warm-ups in white t-shirts with burnt-orange font that said, “There’s only one DBU.”

“DBU,” of course, references the title LSU likes to give itself as the nation’s premier football team for defensive backs by tracing its history of elite play to players like Patrick Peterson, Tyrann Mathieu, Morris Claiborne and Greedy Williams among others.