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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas has seen the view from No. 1<\/a> and the Longhorns know the fall from the college football summit can be hard.<\/p>\n The goal now is to make sure they get more than a fleeting glimpse from the top.<\/p>\n Texas (2-0) jumped to No. 1 after a wild 24-23 victory<\/a> over Ohio State, which knocked the Buckeyes from No. 1 to No. 6. The Longhorns play UTSA this week before starting Southeastern Conference play Sept. 26 at No. 15 Tennessee.<\/p>\n \u201cA week ago, the narrative was we can\u2019t win the big game,\u201d Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday. \u201cThe opinion now is we\u2019re the best team in the country, allegedly, and so everybody is patting us on the back.”<\/p>\n And he cautioned his team about getting carried away with it.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the third straight year we\u2019ve been ranked No. 1 at some part of the season,\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how we handled it. And I don’t know how worthy we were of those rankings, of the opinions of others.\u201d<\/p>\n The Longhorns look worthy of the top spot for now. How things shake out by season’s end is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n In 2024, Texas rose to No. 1 for the first time since 2008<\/a>. The Longhorns stayed there for a month before losing to Georgia. They wouldn’t get back to No. 1, but made it all the way to the College Football Playoff semifinals before losing to eventual national champion Ohio State.<\/p>\n The fall last year was much farther and much harder.<\/p>\n Texas started the season No. 1 only to lose the first game at Ohio State. They were 3-2 a few weeks later and unranked. A 9-3 regular season left the Longhorns out of the playoff.<\/p>\n Senior linebacker Justin Cryer, a transfer from Florida State, seemed unimpressed with life at No. 1.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s cool to post on Instagram or whatever,\u201d Cryer said. \u201cWe have 10 more games to play.\u201d<\/p>\n That’s where quarterback Arch Manning said the focus should be. He remembers the quick fall from No. 1 last season and getting left out of the postseason.<\/p>\n \u201cThe rankings don’t really matter until the playoffs,\u201d Manning said. \u201cWe’ve got a lot to prove.\u201d<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here<\/a>, visit the Top 25 here<\/a> and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,261,416,300,154,1720],"class_list":["post-435901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college-football","tag-college-sports","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-texas-longhorns-arch-manning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435901","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=435901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}