Texas redeems with 38-7 win over San Jose State

Life Returns to Normal

Walking into DKR you want to walk through Bevo Blvd. The buzz is real, fans are bright eyed and smiling. Even better, the weather was not humid in the high 90’s. The air was cool, temp in the high eighties, and a slight breeze.

For Texas, the game started really slow, like molasses making its way from the bottom of the bottle. The first drive was four plays and Texas gained negative four yards. Scary yes, and they had to punt after taking 1:01 off the clock. The second drive was slightly better, chalking up five plays for 16 yards over 2:26 minutes. 

Then Arch Manning unleashed the kraken with four back-to-back touchdowns over 4:23 minutes in 11 plays covering 161 yards, or maybe better said, Manning swung Thor’s Hammer.

With four minutes left in the first quarter, Manning enters the coordinates into his arm and launches a spiral to Parker Livingstone who takes it to the house on an 83 yard touchdown.  

Immediately after the kickoff, first play for San Jose State, Jaylon Guilbeau intercepted a pass by Walker Eget to give Texas back the ball. That gave Texas an infusion of adrenaline.

Then BAM! POW! five plays later, Manning places the ball into the hands of, you guessed it, Parker Livingstone as he slanted into the end zone.

As they say with anything successful, “rinse and repeat.”  So Texas did. 

Texas gets the ball back again after Ty Anthony Smith tackled Lamar Radcliffe and forced a fumble that gave Texas back the ball. Manning entered another launch sequence and fired a deep pass to tight end 88 Jack Endries for a 36 yard touchdown. 

That drive took eight seconds.

Wait, there’s more. Five plays later and in less than two minutes, Texas gets the ball back and Manning throws up the middle to Endries again for a 16 yard touchdown.

That drive took 25 seconds.

Four drives, 4:23 minutes, 11 plays, 161 yards, and four touchdowns to give a 28-7 lead going into the half.

Texas would score twice more in the third quarter on a Mason Shipley 47 yard field goal that was GOOD. Sarkisian said, “this may seem odd, but I wanted to at least get him a field goal attempt today. 

Texas’ final touchdown came from Manning who put on a QB scramble masterclass that saw Manning juke, dodge, fake out, and go wide left to skim the end zone pylon for a touchdown.

The one really unexplainable part of the game was Texas had 12 penalties for 115 yards. While waiting for Sarkisian to arrive at his post game press conference, I asked the question, what team has the most penalties in a game?

Interestingly, Oct 1986 San Jose State played Fresno State and San Jose State had 24 penalties for 199 yards. Texas was knocking their door for that record.

To end on a great note, 100,841 fans packed DKR and had a blast.