{"id":434495,"date":"2026-09-13T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434495\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:50:11","slug":"arch-manning-leads-texas-football-team-past-no-1-ohio-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434495\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Manning leads Texas football team past No. 1 Ohio State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given an early-season opportunity to stand out in a crowded Heisman Trophy race, Texas quarterback Arch Manning<\/a> did just that Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Manning helped engineer a fourth-quarter comeback as No. 4 Texas earned a signature win for head coach Steve\u00a0Sarkisian in a 24-23 win over No. 1 Ohio State at Royal-Memorial Stadium. Trailing by 20 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Longhorns (2-0)\u00a0tied the fourth-largest comeback in school history.<\/p>\n

Manning threw for 196 yards, one touchdown and one interception while completing 62.2% of his 37 passes. Two of his completions came on fourth-down attempts in the second half \u2014 a 9-yard pass to tight end\u00a0Emaree Winston on a fourth-and-9 play and a 12-yard connection with Emmett\u00a0Mosley V on a fourth-and-6 \u2014 as Texas kept three scoring drives alive.<\/p>\n

“Part of the driving force was kind of his grit,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said.\u00a0“I felt like his grit started it, and then the running backs’ grit, and then the receivers’ grit, it all started to kind of work together. But I just thought it was with him kind of saying, ‘Screw it, you know, let’s just go back to letting it rip, and I’m going to trust these guys to go make plays.'”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Manning struggled throughout the first half and Texas’ offense even heard boos from an announced crowd of 105,044 during the third quarter. But in the fourth quarter, Manning completed eight of his 11 passes and found Ryan\u00a0Wingo for a 3-yard score.<\/p>\n

“I did not want to come in (the postgame press conference) after a loss at home to Ohio State again and have y’all telling me we’re not good,” said Manning, who also had 22 rushing yards. “I could not let that happen. So I think that was going through the back of my mind, let’s not let that happen.”<\/p>\n

Had it not been for some mistakes by his teammates, Manning’s statistics would have been even better. His interception came after Ohio State’s\u00a0Jaylen McClain snagged a first-half pass that slipped out of UT receiver Cam Coleman’s grasp. And Wingo dropped a touchdown pass in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

“Stuff like that\u00a0happens,” Manning said.<\/p>\n

Through the first two games against Texas State and Ohio State, Manning has thrown for 500 yards, five touchdowns and two interceptions. He has completed 67.2% of his passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given an early-season opportunity to stand out in a crowded Heisman Trophy race, Texas quarterback Arch Manning did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3230,261,21081,27,29,537,536,28],"class_list":["post-434495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arch-manning","tag-college-football","tag-heisman-trophy","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434495","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=434495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}