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I’ll stand by this until it bites me- chaos is good for Texas. Miami goes down. One of Tenn/OU has to lose, Tech is behind and Louisville is behind too.

I hope the loss to Florida was a catalyst and not a wound. Texas can win out. The move of Milwee to the booth seems to be producing fruit (even if I’m overthinking it). Arch is on fire and the OL looked great. Should have won by 21. I bet Mosley makes that catch without the hold (almost did anyway), but we’d at least have had 15 yards, a 1st down, and more time.

After the mild heart attack time to enjoy some hate watching and drink some beers

Clemson goes down again. Sheesh

Issues aside, I'll take 7-2 with one SEC loss going into the last bye week of the season.

Gerry called it on Carson Beck. Yellow liquid down his pants

Let’s start with what’s objectively fantastic about Texas hanging on for a 34-31 win over No. 9 Vanderbilt, and that’s the start of the game. The season-saving closing moments of last Saturday’s 45-38 overtime win over Mississippi State carried the Longhorns into a game at Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium for the first time in 42 days. With those two factors colliding, I would’ve been disappointed if we didn’t see the most inspired, ready-to-go-from-the-jump performance by Steve Sarkisian’s team through nine games. And Texas (7-2, 4-1 SEC) came out like a house of fire. Less than four minutes into the game, Arch Manning (25-for-33, 328 yards and three touchdowns) and Ryan Wingo (89 yards on two catches before exiting the game with a thumb injury) connected on a 75-yard touchdown, Colin Simmons forced a Diego Pavia fumble on a strip sack and the Longhorns had a 10-0 lead. I wanted Sarkisian to take the ball first (he didn’t get the choice since the Commodores won the toss and deferred their option to the second half). The opportunity to be the aggressor and set the tone the right way could get Vanderbilt (7-2, 3-2) on its heels. That’s exactly what happened. The Longhorns never trailed in the latest must-win game of the 2025 season. I couldn’t have envisioned a better start to a victory that keeps the team’s goals of a berth in the SEC title game and a third consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff alive. *** Manning achieved back-to-back 300-yard passing games for the first time in his career with the most complete sampling of throws we’ve seen from him this season. On quick throws, screens, intermediate passes and the occasional shot down the field beyond 20 yards, Manning completed 10 consecutive passes at one point. While completing 22 of his final 27 attempts, Manning was 7-for-9 for 81 yards on third down and six of his completions moved the chains. Manning led Texas to points on six of the offense’s first seven drives, with the Longhorns failing to score only a two-play drive at the end of the first half. *** Until the end of the game, when Texas was trying to drain the clock and make the Commodores use their timeouts, Sarkisian called the game he needed to call to position the Longhorns for a win. While I might be a prisoner of the moment, I'll say that the vast majority of the Vanderbilt game is up there with last season’s road win over Michigan and the 2023 road win over Alabama as games in which Sarkisian seemed to push all the right buttons on offense. One of the things I liked was how Sarkisian helped the offensive line, which benefited from the return of Cole Hutson from injury. With Hutson in the lineup at left guard, Texas had the athleticism between Trevor Goosby and Connor Robertson that wasn’t there with either Nick Brooks or Connor Stroh. Sarkisian’s decision to maximize the Longhorns’ advantage on the perimeter with the quick passing game, well-executed screen passes to the running backs and the utilization of pre-snap movement to create a number advantage in the running game led to Quintrevion Wisner (75 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries) and C.J. Baxter Jr. (22 yards rushing and a receiving touchdown) rushing for a combined 97 yards on 25 carries. With only one tackle for loss allowed (Clark Lea’s defense came into Saturday’s game averaging 6.8 tackles for loss per game, which ranked 21st nationally) and the defense sacking Pavia six times (only seven sacks allowed through eight games) to go along with 10 tackles for loss, Texas dominated the line of scrimmage against a team that prides itself on winning with a physical, methodical brand of football. The hard-to-stomach final few minutes of the game could push the winning trench effort aside. It shouldn’t, but it’s understandable if it’s hard to see it through the muck of an almost catastrophic fourth quarter. *** The game turned on a play that nearly put the nail in Vanderbilt’s coffin. Manning’s 33-yard touchdown strike to Emmett Mosley V (69 yards and a touchdown on seven catches) was correctly overturned to an incomplete pass. However, the officiating crew failed to call defensive pass interference or defensive holding on cornerback Kolbey Taylor, who had a handful of Mosley’s jersey, restricting his left arm from helping him complete the play. Instead of a touchdown that would’ve put Texas up 40-16 (extra point pending) with 4:09 to go, effectively ending the game, Mason Shipley’s failed field goal try from 51 yards out on the next snap put into motion a forgettable end to an otherwise strong outing. *** Two things are true about the end of the game. I try as hard as I can to leave the officials out of the discussion of how things played out. With that said, I don’t know what else Colin Simmons (five tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, one sack, two hurries and a forced fumble) has to do to draw a holding penalty. Even though Trey Moore (three tackles, one sack, one tackle for loss and two hurries) drew one on Vanderbilt’s last possession, it’s hard for me to believe that Simmons’ constant disruption and the Vanderbilt offensive line’s inability to block him couldn’t get him a call or two (and I don’t have the that's without getting into the Commodores’ two-point conversion, which was upheld after a review with a flimsy explanation from the replay booth to the ABC crew working the game as to why it stood). Still, there’s no excuse for the breakdowns on the back end, which helped the Commodores nearly pull off an upset that would’ve dashed the Longhorns’ postseason hopes. Pavia, who threw for 365 yards, rushing for 43 and accounted for four touchdowns (three passing and one rushing) went 12-for-16 through the air in the fourth quarter, racking up 205 yards and throwing two touchdowns. Vanderbilt averaged 11.3 yards per play in the fourth quarter, went a combined 4-for-5 on third and fourth down and converted a fourth-and-19 from its 2-yard line on a 12-play, 89-yard touchdown drive. Yes, Texas missed Michael Taaffe and Jelani McDonald. But the absence of the two veteran safeties can’t singularly account for the egregious breakdowns in the fourth quarter, which helped make the game a closer than it should’ve been. *** While the closing minutes are ripe for criticism, the Longhorns have a top-10 win in their pocket heading into the bye week. Manning seems to be hitting his stride, Sarkisian might’ve found something to help the offense click with AJ Milwee’s move to the press box and the offensive line should come out of Saturday’s win with a little confidence. The most concerning thing coming out of the game is that for two consecutive games against two different passing attacks, the pass defense has been shredded. Texas needs Taaffe and McDonald back in a bad way, but things need to tighten up and get cleaned up. The Longhorns have looked exploitable in SEC play. With Gunnar Stockton (Georgia), Taylen Green (Arkansas) and Marcel Reed (Texas A&M) left on the schedule, the issues on the back end must get resolved. View full news story

Jordan Hall left the field for Georgia. Helped off w a towel on his head

He said I don’t know right after that.

If you want too be a predominant zone defense then yes makes sense. The question is the younger DB's are more man corners. It looks like their recruiting for man coverage

Kirk is a UT grad class of ‘73

Sarkisian says he believes Arch looks so much more poised and mature given the last two weeks than he did in the first couple of games.

I’ll take that as a positive with a bye week coming

Surprising because that looked nasty

Akina has always been terrible at zone. He’s in charge of the back half calls and pairing with front 7. It will be best to replace the old man that is not good at coaching the type of secondary PK prefers.

Sarkisian on Ryan Wingo: "in an emergency, emergency I think he could have gone in."

Sark: "The games in November are the ones they remember."

They do when they cash in on the +3.5 spread

they never will bubba. kirk noble hated UT so he asked the real questions. the rest just smile and grinn

He's in charge of the secondary not the playcaller. He builds the secondary to fit the overall scheme that Akina didn't come up with. He also had a rag tag unit of backup's playing at the end.

I think officiating has taken a step back. What i mean is college officials are what high school officials used to be. High school is about what you used to have officiating a junior high game and junior high officials are about like youth league flag football. I don’t think people want to be an official now.

Pls don’t strike me down Disney