{"id":31051,"date":"2025-11-01T18:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31051\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:25:11","slug":"texas-qb-arch-manning-starts-and-throws-two-early-tds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31051\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas QB Arch Manning starts and throws two early TDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas quarterback Arch Manning started for the No. 20 Longhorns against No. 9<\/a> Vanderbilt after clearing concussion protocol<\/a> and threw two touchdowns in the first half.<\/p>\n

Texas led 24-10 at halftime.<\/p>\n

Manning had been listed as questionable on Wednesday\u2019s injury report to the Southeastern Conference, but coach Steve Sarkisian also said his quarterback was practicing and making \u201cgood progress\u201d during the week. He was removed from Friday night\u2019s updated list.<\/p>\n

Manning was injured in Texas\u2019 45-38 overtime win<\/a> over Mississippi State when he led a 17-point fourth-quarter rally. Matthew Caldwell entered the game in overtime and threw the winning touchdown pass.<\/p>\n

Manning has passed for 1,980 yards and 17 touchdowns. A preseason favorite<\/a> for the Heisman Trophy, Manning struggled for much of the early season but played his best game against Mississippi State with 346 yards passing and three touchdowns. He passed for 169 yards in the final quarter.<\/p>\n

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Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas quarterback Arch Manning started for the No. 20 Longhorns against No. 9 Vanderbilt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9121,261,416,300,17187,13390,154,3231,3135,27,29,537,536,28,17188,1760,796,17189],"class_list":["post-31051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-college-football","tag-college-sports","tag-football","tag-head-injuries","tag-matthew-caldwell","tag-sports","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-news","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}