Quarterback Arch Manning enters his fourth season as a redshirt junior at Texas in 2026. He represented the Longhorns<\/a> at SEC media days on Thursday.<\/p>\n Manning is the son of Cooper Manning. He is also the grandson of Archie Manning and the nephew of Eli Manning and former Vol Peyton Manning<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 6-foot-4, 222-pound quarterback will play at Tennessee on Sept. 26. The SEC matchup will mark the first time the Longhorns will play at Tennessee.<\/p>\n Arch Manning discussed facing the Vols during the 2026 regular season.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n “I’ve never been, so I’m excited to go for the first time,” he said. “We’re all pumped up, first SEC game. That’s a great program. I spent some time with George MacIntyre this offseason. He’s a really good dude. We’re all excited.”<\/p>\n Texas leads the all-time football series<\/a>, 2-1, versus Tennessee.<\/p>\n More: Tennessee-Texas football game prediction outlook after SEC media days<\/a> Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 24, 2026, 7:30 a.m. ET Texas was the last school to take part in 2026 SEC media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,105012,135720,35,44,4927,45,18847,18378,40,184,48293,39,43,5140,46,8940,688,4928,4929,9025,27,29,28,36],"class_list":["post-385050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-accessfree","tag-sourcevols-wire","tag-sstssportscollegevolunteersfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagarch-manning","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tageli-manning","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagncaa-southeastern-conference","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagpeyton-manning","tag-tagsec-conference-football","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtennessee-volunteers-football","tag-tagtexas","tag-tagtexas-longhorns","tag-tagtexas-longhorns-football","tag-tagtwitter","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385050","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=385050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/90988361007-usatsi-29417979.jpg\")