{"id":462585,"date":"2026-10-11T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462585\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:16:08","slug":"everything-steve-sarkisian-said-after-arch-manning-no-1-texas-upset-by-oklahoma-in-rivalry-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462585\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Steve Sarkisian Said After Arch Manning, No. 1 Texas Upset By Oklahoma in Rivalry Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sarkisian and Texas were handed their first loss of the season in upset fashion on Saturday as Oklahoma knocked off the top-ranked Longhorns 27-24 in the Red River Rivalry. <\/p>\n

For Sarkisian, the loss came down to making avoidable mistakes. <\/p>\n

“You give people chances to hang around in games, and they took advantage of it and ultimately won the game,” Sarkisian told reporters after the loss. “For us, there’s obviously a level of disappointment. There’s a level of anger and frustration because we know we have issues that need to be fixed… But they reared their ugly head today against a quality team.” <\/p>\n

The Longhorns were penalized eight times for 61 yards and a blocked punt gave the Sooners their first touchdown of the game, continuing a trend of a lack of discipline for Texas.<\/p>\n

“I am frustrated. Because we are working at it,” Sarkisian said<\/a>. “It’s not for a lack of effort… but it clearly has not been good enough.”<\/p>\n

Arch Manning threw a pair of interceptions, including one that set up the Sooners’ game-winning field goal. The quarterback threw for 260 yards and three touchdowns, but his mistakes were costly.<\/p>\n

“Arch competed his tail off and he made some tremendous plays,” Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n

Execution was certainly an issue, but much of Texas’ problems came down to coaching as well. The Longhorns went 3-of-14 on third down, and a decision to kick a field goal on 4th-and-2 late in the fourth quarter came back to haunt the Longhorns when it missed from 53 yards.<\/p>\n

But will Sarkisian give up his play-calling duties?<\/p>\n

While it’s a dissapointing result for a Texas team that has national championship hopes, the Longhorns can rest assured that the loss doesn’t have to define their season.<\/p>\n

“There’s a level of frustration, a level of disappointment, but also a level of optimism knowing we can get those things fixed,” Sarkisian told reporters<\/a>. “We’ve got a long season to go.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Sarkisian and Texas were handed their first loss of the season in upset fashion on Saturday as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-462585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462585","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=462585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}