{"id":450663,"date":"2026-09-29T01:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450663\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:56:07","slug":"texas-colin-simmons-credited-with-an-extra-half-sack-vs-tennessee-giving-him-school-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450663\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217; Colin Simmons credited with an extra half sack vs. Tennessee, giving him school record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">AUSTIN, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/texas-longhorns-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> (AP) \u2014 Texas defensive end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/colin-simmons-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Simmons<\/a> was credited Monday with an extra half-sack against Tennessee, bringing his game total to 5 1\/2 and setting a new school record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Simmons dominated the line of scrimmage in Texas&#8217; 20-17 win as the Longhorns finished with 10 1\/2 sacks. Simmons was also penalized for a vulgar celebration after one of them when he mimicked using the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Texas officials said a review by Texas and Tennessee prompted a change in the box score for a fourth-quarter play. Simmons and defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/hero-kanu-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hero Kanu<\/a> both got to Tennessee quarterback Faizon Brandon for a sack. With the change, Simmons broke the single-game record he shared with Shane Dronett, who had five sacks against Texas Tech in 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Simmons now 7 1\/2 sacks on the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas defensive end Colin Simmons was credited Monday with an extra half-sack against Tennessee,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4971,261,48448,27,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-450663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-colin-simmons","tag-college-football","tag-hero-kanu","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450663","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=450663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}