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It’s time to revisit On Texas Football's “One Burning Question,” where we ask a significant question of the Texas Longhorns heading into a game. Entering Saturday’s 59-7 win over Texas State, our burning question for No. 5 Texas was: How will the Texas pass defense fare in its first test under Will Muschamp? Although there were a few hiccups, the Longhorns kept Brad Jackson and the Bobcats’ passing attack from producing the eye-popping they posted last season. Jackson’s 150 passing yards on a 15-for-23 afternoon marked his lowest output through the air since the 2024 season, when he threw for 102 on a 4-for-6 outing in a blowout win over Southern Miss. The 188 passing yards Texas State mustered are its fourth-fewest in 41 games under GJ Kinne, while Saturday’s route saw Texas hold the Bobcats without a passing touchdown for only the fourth time in Kinne's tenure. Texas State ended the game with three pass completions of 20 or more yards, a hair below the 3.6 per game the Bobcats averaged last season (tied with the Longhorns and five other programs for No. 34 nationally with 47 20-plus-yard completions). Just one of those chunk-yardage connections (a 41-yard strike from Jackson to Tucker Cusano in the second quarter) led to a touchdown, which might’ve been the only coverage bust Muschamp’s defense experienced while defending 29 official pass attempts. Defending the deep ball was only part of the challenge Texas faced against the Texas State aerial attack. Thankfully, the Longhorns minimized the damage the Bobcats did after the catch; Texas State’s 109 yards after the catch and 5.5 yards after the catch per reception (according to Pro Football Focus) were under its 2025 season averages of 137.7 yards per game and 7.05 yards per reception, respectively. Of the 109 yards Texas allowed after the catch, 61 of them came on three plays. Cusano’s catch, where Jackson dropped the ball into him after he got behind the Longhorn linebackers in coverage, kickstarted a five-play, 75-yard touchdown drive, but the Bobcats couldn’t turn either of their other two long catch-and-run plays into points. Texas overcame a 24-yard catch-and-run by Davian Jackson, who Graceson Littleton rode out of bounds at the 5-yard line after Brad Jackson pulled up during a scramble and flipped the ball to his running back for big yardage. The defense stood tall, denying the Bobcats the end zone on a 13-play, 82-yard drive, which ended with a missed field goal. Chris Dawn Jr. beat Bo Mascoe on an angle route out of the backfield in the second quarter, ripping off a 22-yard gain before Jonah Williams tackled him at the Longhorns’ 36-yard line. Two plays later, Rasheem Biles punched the football out of Taji Atkins’ arms, leading to Littleton’s 59-yard scoop-and-score touchdown. PFF credited Jackson with a 2-for-6 performance on passes thrown 10 or more yards beyond the line of scrimmage for 53 yards. That exemplifies how the Texas defense executed Muschamp’s game plan: get lined up quickly to combat the opponent's tempo, don't let the ball get behind you and prevent ball carriers from ripping off extra yards after the catch by making plays in space. Muschamp shouldn’t have been expected to be too exotic against Texas State with a showdown against No. 1 Ohio State next on the schedule. The Longhorns will face a Buckeye passing game that was clicking on all cylinders in a 56-3 rout of Ball State; Julian Sayin threw for 320 yards and three touchdowns on a 21-for-25 performance, with Jeremiah Smith recording 151 yards and two touchdowns on eight receptions. In two games against Texas, Smith has caught seven passes for 46 yards and didn’t find the end zone in either meeting. Like a lot of things that can be said about the Longhorns coming out of the win over the Bobcats, the challenge facing the pass defense will be much tougher when Ohio State is occupying the visiting sideline at DKR next Saturday (6:30 p.m., ABC). View full news story

At this rate, Chambliss isn't going to make it to SEC play.

Watched it live and the worst part was that the game was called in real time. That didn't happen in the Big XII championship. Big Bad Bo was the only one trying to walk that one off.

He is back in I’m a idiot

Lacy hurt from ole miss

I always enjoy post game reflections from the opposing team’s fans. (Post 2023 Texas defeat of Alabama was particularly delightful) this YouTuber at “win now or get bent” had lots of good things to say about Longhorns. Pretty measured take on the game.

As much as I love upsets, we need Ole Miss to win this one because if not Louisville could lose to 2 scrubs just like Miami did last year and still get in the playoff off of the back of this win and take up a spot

Wisconsin getting after ND👀

Former portal Longhorn Isaac Brown

Texas State has the “biggest” OL pound-for-pound, not us.

I remember when brown from Louisville was going to enter the portal and come to us man 😔

The Savanah Bananas of college football.

Lighten up. It was week one with an OL that had zero live snaps together before this game. It will get better. You guys think this is so easy to just any 5 guys out there and expect perfect results. Reality is much different than paper.

No, you don’t “got it.” Not perfection, just some push from our Oline (that happens to be the biggest in college football). Most everything else was good . We’ll see next week. Hope I’m wrong. The people that didn’t “watch” the game, just look at the score. I’m glad we did what we were supposed to do, blowout an inferior opponent, I’m still concerned some of the things that I saw won’t translate to more talented opponents. Both can be true at the same time. I’m sure the coaches have some criticisms also.

Neither Ole Miss nor Louisville travel very well.

When the field clock which is synced to the TV clock said 9 seconds. There was actually 10 on the official clock. No one checked until the review. Their official clock is synced to their replay equipment so they can see 1/100ths of time, frame by frame. They said when the WMU player touched the ball there was one second on their official clock.

I don't see how they could be out of sync when they literally reset the clock to nine seconds before the play. For those that were not watching, Michigan threw a long pass over the middle with no timeouts. They ran up to the line and spiked the ball. The clock ran down to 8 seconds and the official said please reset the game clock to nine seconds. Which the clock that was shown on the broadcast and in the stadium did. So, how did they get out of sync?

I was doing that watching the QB and the WR Friday so I won’t judge

They say there is an official one in the booth. It is supposed to be synced to the field clock, but somehow they got off.

The Big 10 argument makes zero sense. There is nothing to suggest the clock on the broadcast started early. Are they saying the broadcast clock ran faster than the official clock? Because nine seconds is nine seconds. And they had literally just "reset the game clock" to nine seconds. So, it isn't like there were really 9.9 seconds on the official clock, but only 9 seconds on the broadcast clock. I watched it in real time and I would find it incredibly hard to believe that the play took less than nine seconds. But I also agree with the comment that WMU got too cute with their defense. It makes zero sense to "blitz" a fourth rusher there.

Jackson Cook mauled Euless Trinity Friday http://www.hudl.com/v/2UFJ7g

Whew… can you imagine if he was injured because of that?

Don’t forget about Miami Friday!