Monday night's Valero Alamo Bowl will be the last time Mack Brown is ever on the sidelines for the Texas Longhorns as he coaches them against the Oregon Ducks (10).

Brown's Longhorns will have to try and slow the fast, high-powered Ducks offense, lead by one of college football's brightest young stars, quarterback Marcus Mariotta. The game may be technically a neutral location, but San Antonio's Alamodome will almost certainly feel like a home crowd for the Longhorns.

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Texas has struggled against teams ranked in the top-25 and his perceived lack of effectiveness was one reason Brown announced his resignation.

"I sincerely want to get back to the top and that's why I'm stepping down after the bowl game," Brown said previously told reporters, according to ESPN. "I hope with some new energy, we can get this thing rolling again."

Texas lost two of its first three games after an offseason where Brown's job was rumored to be unsecure. The team then logged six straight wins, including one against Oklahoma, but finished losing two of three. Thee of the Longhorns' four total losses were to teams ranked in the top-25 and Oklahoma was the only such opponent they beat.

"I felt like I could stay," Brown said. "I really felt like it wasn't best for the university to stay.

"It's been a wonderful ride. Now, the program is again being pulled in different directions, and I think the time is right for a change."

First, the storied coach will get his proper sendoff in the team's second consecutive Alamo Bowl. Brown lead the Longhorns to a National Championship win against USC in 2005, a loss in the title game in 2009, two Big 12 titles and an average of 11.2 wins per season.

The game will likely not have much sentimental value for Mariotta, who announced he will be returning to Oregon in 2014, a year he hopes to take the Ducks farther.

The last time these two teams played was 2000 in the Holiday Bowl, a game Oregon won 35-30. Offense is likely going to be the key to victory, for Texas, they must generate enough of it and stifle Oregon's.