{"id":469667,"date":"2026-10-18T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469667\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:54:14","slug":"texas-vs-florida-social-media-reacts-to-longhorns-loss-to-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469667\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs Florida: Social media reacts to Longhorns&#8217; loss to Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the Longhorns sqauandered a halftime lead and scored just seven points in the second half. Despite a late possession down three, UT couldn&#8217;t take the lead in the fourth quarter after an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/longhorns\/football\/article\/arch-manning-texas-football-expectations-22473772.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arch Manning<\/a> fumble with 1 minute, 58 seconds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/longhorns\/football\/article\/texas-longhorns-score-today-florida-22473250.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left in the game<\/a>. Texas ended up losing 27-24\u00a0at home, its second straight loss since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/longhorns\/football\/article\/texas-football-oklahoma-sooners-arch-manning-22462702.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red River Rivalry last weekend<\/a>. It was also the first time that Manning lost at home as a starter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UT has now\u00a0lost two straight for the first time in about a half-decade.<\/p>\n<p>Florida backup quarterback\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/longhorns\/football\/article\/aarion-philo-florida-quarterback-injury-texas-22476944.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tramell Jones Jr.<\/a> got his first start after Aaron Philo was ruled out due to a shoulder injury. Jones finished the game with two interceptions and 155 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is how social media reacted to losing back-to-back games to unranked teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the Longhorns sqauandered a halftime lead and scored just seven points in the second half. Despite a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3230,132,134,133,2745,3231,536],"class_list":["post-469667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-arch-manning","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-florida-gators","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-texas-longhorns-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469667","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=469667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}