AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Commodores\u2019 fourth-quarter comeback, powered by a career performance from quarterback Diego Pavia, was cut short on Saturday as the No. 9 Vanderbilt football team fell 34-31 at No. 20 Texas.<\/p>\n
Pavia finished with a career-high 408 yards of total offense, 365 passing and 43 rushing. It\u2019s the most by a Commodore against an SEC opponent since 2006 (Chris Nickson, 517 yards) and a season-high passing total for Pavia. He went 27-for-38 passing with no interceptions, also accounting for four touchdowns. With his performance in Austin, Pavia moves to No. 7 in the program record books for career passing yards.<\/p>\n
Eli Stowers led the Commodores (7-2, 3-2 SEC) with seven catches for 146 yards, the fourth-most by a tight end in the country this season. Stowers hauled in two touchdown receptions, his first multi-touchdown game of the season. Junior Sherrill and Richie Hoskins each made five receptions, a career-high for Hoskins. The Vanderbilt defense was paced by Nick Rinaldi and Marlen Sewell who each posted a season-high eight tackles.<\/p>\n
Texas (7-2, 4-1 SEC) quarterback Arch Manning finished 25-of-33 with 328 passing yards and three touchdowns. Quintrevion Wisner led the Longhorns on the ground, amassing 75 yards on 18 carries. Emmett Mosley made a team-high seven catches for 69 yards.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns stormed out to an early 17-0 lead in the first quarter, scoring first on a 75-yard touchdown pass from Arch Manning to Ryan Wingo.<\/p>\n
Brock Taylor put Vandy\u2019s first points on the board in the second quarter, drilling a field goal from 44 yards out. It was his 19th consecutive made field goal and fourth from 40-plus yards this season.<\/p>\n
A conversion on fourth-and-five opened the door for Vanderbilt to score on an 18-yard pass from Pavia to Stowers, making it a two-score game with 15 seconds left in the first half.<\/p>\n
Texas was the first to score out of the locker room as Manning found Mosley on a six-yard touchdown pass.<\/p>\n
The Commodores marched 45 yards down the field to the Texas 30, putting Vandy in field goal range. Taylor\u2019s 48-yard field goal attempt was unsuccessful, ending his streak of 19 consecutive made field goals, which was the sixth-longest active run in the nation heading into Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Texas answered with a field goal of its own from 37 yards out to extend the Longhorns\u2019 lead to 24 points. The score was 34-10, Texas, at the end of the third quarter.<\/p>\n
The Commodores continued to battle back in the fourth quarter, putting up 21 unanswered points to cut the Longhorns\u2019 lead to three. Pavia opened the fourth-quarter scoring with a 25-yard touchdown run, his longest rushing score this season. The Vanderbilt defense made a fourth down stop on the following possession to give the Commodores the ball back on their own 33-yard line. On the next play, Pavia connected with Stowers on a 67-yard touchdown pass, the Dores\u2019 second-longest scoring play of the season. After forcing Texas to a three and out, Pavia completed five passes for first downs, eventually finding Hoskins on an 8-yard touchdown pass.<\/p>\n
Vanderbilt\u2019s onside kick attempt was unsuccessful, and Texas held on to win the game by a score of 34-31.<\/p>\n
Next up, the Commodores return home to host Auburn for their homecoming game. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. on the SEC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Commodores\u2019 fourth-quarter comeback, powered by a career performance from quarterback Diego Pavia, was cut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,18918,18921,18920,18919,18922,1492,300,1532,18927,796,18928,18929,18923,18915,18916,18917,18926,18925,18924],"class_list":["post-32422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-commodores","tag-commodores-baseball","tag-commodores-basketball","tag-commodores-football","tag-commodores-soccer","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-headlines","tag-vanderbilt-athletics","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-baseball-roster","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-football-roster","tag-vanderbilt-stadium","tag-vanderbilt-university","tag-vanderbilt-university-athletics","tag-vuc","tag-vuc-baseball","tag-vuc-basketball","tag-vuc-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422","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=32422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}