{"id":441495,"date":"2026-09-19T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441495\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:52:11","slug":"no-1-texas-vs-utsa-live-updates-horns-try-to-remain-undefeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441495\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Texas vs. UTSA live updates: Horns try to remain undefeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">AUSTIN \u2014 Over the last two seasons, the Texas Longhorns haven\u2019t performed well after ascending to No. 1 in the rankings, but Steve Sarkisian\u2019s team has a chance to reverse that trend on Saturday at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium against a UTSA Roadrunners team that is a nearly 30-point underdog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ball security and third-down defense were both issues that Sarkisian wants corrected in the wake of last week\u2019s thrilling 24-23 comeback against Ohio State as Texas goes through its final tuneup before embarking on its SEC schedule next week in Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Similar to last week, Texas warmed up in its new indoor practice facility \u2014 the offense came out onto Campbell-Williams Field with about an hour until kickoff, but the defense did not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As expected, freshman running back Derrek Cooper was dressed after sustaining an ankle injury in the season opener against Texas State, but sophomore tight end Nick Townsend was not dressed. Townsend injured his knee last week. Also not dressed \u2014 sophomore defensive lineman Justus Terry, junior safety Kobe Black, and junior nickel back Xavier Filsaime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 Over the last two seasons, the Texas Longhorns haven\u2019t performed well after ascending to No. 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":["post-441495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441495","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=441495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}