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ATLANTA — Arch Manning’s day started, as it always does, with a text from his grandfather.
Archie, the patriarch of the first family of quarterbacks, texts all his grandkids every morning. A Bible verse, a motivational message, that sort of thing. Ahead of Arch’s appearance at SEC media days here, he received this bit of advice: Keep it short and sweet, and be thoughtful.
Oh, and Archie signed the text with his own name. Very much a grandpa move.
When you have relatives like Arch does — his grandfather is a former NFL quarterback and College Football Hall of Famer, and both uncles, Peyton and Eli, won multiple Super Bowls — you’ve got a lot of avenues for advice if you need it. They’re also the reason that the hype around Arch has reached a fever pitch in the months leading into the 2025 college football season, his first as the full-time starter for the Longhorns.
Manning waited two years for this opportunity. He did something that’s essentially unheard of as a five-star, can’t-miss quarterback prospect in the 2020s — he sat on the bench for two seasons, backing up Quinn Ewers. Manning didn’t enter the transfer portal. He didn’t post cryptic tweets. He just worked hard to learn the offense, earning his teammates’ trust and preparing him for when he had to fill in for Ewers when he was injured in the middle of last season. But, of course, the job was Ewers’ when he was back and even when he was playing through pain, all the way through Texas’ run to the national semifinals of the College Football Playoff.
“We’ve had those cold tub conversations where it’s like, ‘Dude, I just want to be the guy,’ all that pent-up, I-want-to-be-the-guy emotions,” Texas safety Michael Taaffe said on my SiriusXM show on Tuesday. “He gets to show…
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Publish date : 2025-07-16 00:21:00
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