CJ Vogel

Probably a good point. I did notice a few times when runs got through, it was the result of linebackers being out of position or not fitting the necessary gap instead of the DL being completely displaced. Both position groups will probably learn a lot on tape. It's been a bit of a theme for the LB to just bolt up hill without finding the ball, one of the few boom or bust tendencies with this defense.

Arch Manning season passing chart:

Missed Tackle count by PFF through five games for Texas: CSU: 3 MICH: 9 UTSA: 13 ULM: 12 MSST: 8 To be completely honest, the eight number feels very low against MSST. It felt much sloppier than that in the tackling department.

A quick look at the numbers that made this win possible for the Texas Longhorns on Saturday. *** Defensive Snap Count 75 possible defensive snaps. 72 – Barron 69 – Muhammad 67 – Hill Jr. 64 – Mukuba 59 – Guilbeau 49 – Broughton 47 – Moore 44 – Collins 43 – Sorrell, Taaffe, Gbenda 41 – Simmons 37 – McDonald 36 – Holmes 23 – Lole 21 – Burke, Blackwell 19 – Norton 9 – Vasek 8 – Lefau 6 – Jordon Johnson-Rubell 4 – Alex January Few takeaways: – 41 snaps is the most we have seen by Colin Simmons this season by a wide margin. He is on the Anthony Hill Jr. path where eventually it will be tough for him to be sideliend at all. He might already be there. – This is the start of Vasek seeing meaningful snaps. – Jordon Johnson-Rubell will not be redshirted, the staff really trusts him. – Tia Savea might be redshirt candidate. *** Offensive Snap Counts 64 possible snaps 64 – Helm, Manning, Majors, Banks, Conner, Williams 54 – Golden 52 – Bond 43 – Campbell 34 – Wisner 31 – Moore 25 – Davis 21 – Hutson 20 – Blue 18 – Wingo 10 – Gibson 7 – Cook 4 – Bolden 1 – Niblett – Gunnar Helm seeing every snap. He has been irreplaceable this year. *** Texas All-Time As an SEC Member A look at the record of the Texas Longhorns since joining the SEC. All-Time: 5-0 In SEC Play: 1–0 Not too bad! *** Top 15 Everything Scoring Offense: 11th (45.0) Scoring Defense: t-2nd (7.0) Total Offense: 8th (513.4) Total Defense: 6th (234.8) Tennessee, Texas, Indiana and Ohio State are the only four programs to be ranked top-15 in all four of those categories this year. Tennessee, Texas and Indiana are the only schools to have no trailed a single minute this season. *** Arch Manning Start 1 to Start 2 It was a magnificent development for Arch Manning in his second career start. Of course, after the UTSA game, perhaps expectations were a bit too high for the first time starter against ULM, but there were considered leaps in performance that led one of the best individual performances by a quarterback in all of the country this season. Completion Percentage ULM: 51.7% MSST: 83.9% ADOT ULM: 14.2 MSST: 8.4 Passes Beyond 20+ Yards ULM: 10 MSST: 4 Rushing Yards ULM: -4 MSST: 33 INT ULM: 2 MSST: 0 Overall, it was a fantastic performance from No. 16.

He runs like a smaller 2016 David Johnson imo.

I mean this is an unreal run. Beast Mode type stuff.

Best RB in the country.

That whole ordeal was insane. Replays on replays and it almost forced Sark to burn a timeout due to the playclock not resetting.

I sweat on his 27-yard run three of four MSST defenders gave up thinking he was just going to step out of bounds after he got the first down, just for them to look foolish when he turned up the sideline and *scored* Heck of a run regardless.

Indiana mention! lol They have been a cash cow this season

Zero turnover worthy plays on 35 dropbacks. Turn that up! Love it.

I know folks have differing opinions on Pro Football Focus, but I did want to share this about QB Arch Manning after last night. PFF gave Manning a grade of 94.2 for his performance against Mississippi State – that was the highest grade given out to a quarterback in all of college football for week five. Not just that, but it is the highest individual game grade given to a quarterback all season by PFF. Pretty high praise for a kid making his second career start and his first ever against an SEC team.

That is it for Sark. Ends with wanting to use the bye week to get healthy and find ways to capitalize on what was left on the bone today.

"We are seeing his impact in the run game more as the season goes on." Sark on Colin Simmons. Adds that Texas was able to add to his plate today by lining him up over centers and guards rather than just strictly tackles.

Sarkisian: "Hopefully we will get Quinn (Ewers) back for OU, we will seen."

It's a singer for Michael Taaffe says Sarkisian.

The game plan defensively was to force Miss State to throw the football. That clearly was not the case for the Texas D in the 1H, however you saw what they wanted to do by pinning their ears back and getting after the QB.

Sarkisian says he was cussing out himself on the first Jaydon Blue fumble because he had a different play call in his mind that he ended up going against. Says he had schemed for that exact situation yet went with the run that ended up in a turnover.

Sarkisian says on the 4th down failure he wanted to go for it on 4th if it was under 4th and 4. The false start moved the down to 4th and 3.

Sarkisian says DeAndre Moore "really didn't practice much this week," adding he was pretty gimpy on Thursday after suffering a hip pointer vs. ULM last week.

Sarkisian says he does not know if teams in the past at Texas would have overcome the issues that showed up for the Longhorns today. Shares he told the team he was pleased that Texas was able to pull away while showing the poise and composure needed.

Sark: We are going to need Jaydon Blue this season, I don't want anyone thinking we are giving up on him.

"I hate it for Jaydon, he didn't want to fumble." – Sark. Sarkisian says he is concerned for the psychy of players when there are blips like consecutive fumbles in games. He didn't want ball security to get into Blue's heads.