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Steve Sarkisian won’t have to worry about motivating his team entering the bye week.
Mississippi State isn’t in the same class as Texas football, but the team that isn’t likely to have a winning record this season gave the home team a real tussle Saturday.
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Texas wideout DeAndre Moore caught this touchdown in Saturday’s win over Mississippi State. It was Texas’ first SEC game in history and the Horns shrugged off some sloppy to turn back the 38-point underdogs.
If winning ugly was an art form, the Texas offense painted a Picasso on Saturday.
On a day when one SEC title contender went down, the Horns warded off the bye-week-upset monster and can now look ahead to some name-brand competition in a couple of weeks.
That is, if they weren’t looking ahead already.
The Horns turned it over twice and seemed out of sorts on offense for most of the afternoon, but were plenty good enough to turn back 38-point underdog Mississippi State 35-13 in their first league game as a member of the SEC.
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Sarkisian played the long game and sat starting quarterback Quinn Ewers. I believe he would have played had the Horns been facing Oklahoma or Georgia instead of Mississippi State, which was starting a true freshman at quarterback and coming off a 17-point loss to Florida.
The Horns took the field with the knowledge that No. 5 Ole Miss took one on the chin at home to the scrappy Kentucky Wildcats, who celebrated after the Rebels missed a chip-shot field goal that likely would have forced overtime.
Manning completed 15-of-19 passes for 202 yards in the first half, and that number would have been closer to 275 had Johntay Cook II not dropped a perfectly thrown deep ball midway…
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Author : Austin American-Statesman
Publish date : 2024-09-29 00:03:53
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