{"id":468909,"date":"2026-10-17T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468909\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:48:26","slug":"no-7-texas-longhorns-vs-florida-gators-live-updates-and-box-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468909\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 7 Texas Longhorns vs. Florida Gators: Live Updates and Box Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">AUSTIN &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/texas\/football\/its-time-for-steve-sarkisian-to-reconsider-how-texas-runs-the-ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The No. 7 Texas Longhorns<\/a> are returning home for the first time in nearly a month on Saturday morning for their first SEC home game of the season in a matchup with the Florida Gators.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/texas\/football\/colin-simmons-among-three-texas-stars-vying-for-major-national-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas is looking to bounce back<\/a> after a crushing 27-24 loss in Dallas to Oklahoma last week, a result that dropped the Longhorns from the No. 1 spot in the AP Poll.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6t\">Florida is coming off of back-to-back blowout losses and hardly looks the team that dismantled Ole Miss in Gainesville last month.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6y\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/texas\/football\/florida-expected-to-start-new-qb-tramell-jones-what-it-means-for-texas-longhorns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Gators will be starting quarterback Trammel Jones<\/a> for the first time this season as Aaron Philo deals with a shoulder injury. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">For the Longhorns, all eyes will be on quarterback Arch Manning, who is coming off of a 250-plus yard, three touchdown performance against the Sooners. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"78\">The problem is, Manning also threw two interceptions in that football game. One of those interceptions was a pick-six, with the other coming in the final minute and leading to the Oklahoma game-winning field goal. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7d\">The good news for Texas and Manning, is the Florida&#8217;s defense has struggled to stop the pass, leading many to believe that the QB could have a bounce back performance. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7i\">In some more good news for Texas, the Longhorns will be welcoming back Justus Terry along the defensive front, which is a big boost to an already dominant group up front. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7n\">Follow along below for live updates after kick off.<\/p>\n<p>1st Quarter<\/p>\n<p>2nd Quarter<\/p>\n<p>3rd Quarter<\/p>\n<p>4th Quarter<\/p>\n<p>TOTAL<\/p>\n<p>Florida<\/p>\n<p>Texas<\/p>\n<p>1st Quarter<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"81\">Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/texas\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our free newsletter<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TexasLonghornsOnSI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LonghornsOnSI\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/texaslonghornsonsi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> for the latest news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" preventdefault:click=\"\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\" on:click=\"q-DZGOBo6r.js#s_lDqay9E5m5g[0]\" q:id=\"87\">Follow<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN &#8211; The No. 7 Texas Longhorns are returning home for the first time in nearly a month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-468909","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\/468909","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=468909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}