{"id":436827,"date":"2026-09-15T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436827\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:44:09","slug":"arch-mannings-controversial-reply-to-ai-generated-vide-of-holly-rowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436827\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Manning’s controversial reply to AI-generated vide of Holly Rowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN\u00a0\u2014 Texas quarterback Arch Manning<\/a> drew criticism after insensitive comments on Monday about an AI-altered video on social media that depicted a Steve Sarkisian<\/a> lookalike slapping ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe after their brief interaction following the Longhorns\u2019 24-23 win<\/a> over Ohio State.<\/p>\n

Manning was asked whether he had seen any social media posts from the postgame celebration but was not asked directly about the Rowe-Sarkisian interview that was cut short.<\/p>\n

Sarkisian had two bizarre interactions with ESPN\u2019s Laura Rutledge and Rowe at halftime and again after the game amidst the wild celebration. On both occasions, the Texas head coach was left waiting for several minutes and eventually grew tiresome and left.<\/p>\n

When Rowe tried to interview him without completing her question following the game, an exuberant Sarkisian yelled, \u201cLet\u2019s go. Texas fight. Let\u2019s go. Texas fight.\u201d He then walked off.<\/p>\n

Manning added fuel to the fire with his comments to Monday\u2019s question.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen a few AI edits, that\u2019s about it. I saw an AI edit of Sark\u2019s interview,\u201d Manning said, drawing laughs from some in the room. \u201cY\u2019all seen that one? That\u2019s a good one. Of him slapping Holly Rowe. It\u2019s hilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many in the media at the press conference weren\u2019t even aware of or had seen the fake video.<\/p>\n

Manning and UT have not addressed the controversy. Rowe has not commented, and an ESPN spokesperson told the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday that the network is not commenting on the situation\u00a0\u201cfor now.\u201d<\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s attempt at interviewing Sarkisian at halftime when Texas trailed 20-3 also never came off. He had waited patiently next to Rutledge near the tunnel leading to the Longhorn locker room while Rowe asked two or three questions to Ohio State\u2019s Ryan Day.<\/p>\n

Sarkisian decided to leave before Rutledge got her turn, and ESPN later explained there was a technology glitch on both interview situations. Rutledge later talked to Sarkisian after Texas came out of the locker room to start the second half and clarified what happened as the teams were heading to the locker room at the break.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do want to make sure we clear something up: (Sarkisian) did decline the interview at the half,\u201d Rutledge said before the start of the third quarter. \u201cHe had waited a long time, been very patient with some technical issues that we had. He apologized to us. We should be apologizing to him, which we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Texas spokesperson said Saturday night that ESPN had reached out to UT and apologized for the awkward situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN\u00a0\u2014 Texas quarterback Arch Manning drew criticism after insensitive comments on Monday about an AI-altered video on social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-436827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436827","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=436827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}