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Texas SURVIVES Ole Miss & It CHANGES EVERYTHING for Longhorns & Steve Sarkisian · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss had the football, 80 seconds left, down seven
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  Speaker 1: in Austin with the best quarterback in the country under center.
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  Speaker 1: And Texas had a fan base that had already watched
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  Speaker 1: this exact movie twice in the last 14 days. You
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  Speaker 1: know the movie. Texas builds a lead, they let the
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  Speaker 1: lead breathe, and then they let the lead die. Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: up double digits at the half, gone. Florida up 17-3.
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  Speaker 1: You had the ball, gone. And now for the third
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  Speaker 1: straight Saturday, a double-digit Texas lead had evaporated in front
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  Speaker 1: of everybody, this time at home once again. 21 points
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  Speaker 1: was the lead this time. So when Trinidad dropped back
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  Speaker 1: one last time and let it fly to the end zone,
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't a single person inside a DKR that knew
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  Speaker 1: how this was going to end. Not the players, not
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  Speaker 1: the fans, and honestly, probably not Sark either. I want
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  Speaker 1: to set the table here on college football addiction where
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  Speaker 1: we are presented by prize picks because you can't understand
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  Speaker 1: what happened Saturday night without understanding what came before it.
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  Speaker 1: Texas started this season 4-0. They beat Ohio State in
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  Speaker 1: that comeback that we all lost our minds over. They
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  Speaker 1: were sitting at number one in the country. The preseason
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  Speaker 1: Heisman favorite was taking snaps. The most expensive roster in
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  Speaker 1: the sport, according to some, was doing exactly what it
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  Speaker 1: was built to do. But then October happened. Two losses.
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  Speaker 1: Same score both times, 27-24 to Oklahoma in Dallas, where
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  Speaker 1: the Sooners scored 17 in the fourth quarter, and then
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  Speaker 1: 27-24 at home to a Florida team that had given
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  Speaker 1: up 83 points in its previous two games. And that
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  Speaker 1: Florida game ended with Arch Manning getting strip sacked late,
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  Speaker 1: the ball on the turf, and then the Gators on
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  Speaker 1: top of it. The season sitting right there with it.
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  Speaker 1: First two-game losing streak for Texas since 2021, from No.
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  Speaker 1: 1 to No. 19 in the blink of an eye.
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  Speaker 1: And then Monday hit. ESPN's Pete Thamel reported that redshirt
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  Speaker 1: freshman K.J. Lisi was getting more first-team reps in practice.
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  Speaker 1: Sark pushed back on parts of that, but he also
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  Speaker 1: said this, And I do want you to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, he's our starter, but I need to see
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  Speaker 1: a better version of Arch Manning. That's not necessarily a
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  Speaker 1: coach defending his guy. That's a coach putting his guy
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  Speaker 1: on notice publicly. Meanwhile, the national noise turned on Sark himself.
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  Speaker 1: Hot seat talk, buyout talk, a roughly $ 50 million buyout
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  Speaker 1: that people were actually discussing out loud at Texas in October.
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  Speaker 1: about a coach who had his program in back-to-back playoff
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  Speaker 1: semifinals not that long ago. So this wasn't just a
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  Speaker 1: big game. This was the game. Lose to No. 7
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss, and you're 4-3, 1-3 in the SEC, with
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  Speaker 1: your playoff hopes likely in the dumpster, your quarterback controversy
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  Speaker 1: fully alive, and your head coach answering questions about his
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  Speaker 1: future every day until December. Win, and you buy yourself
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  Speaker 1: a pulse. Now here's what makes the first half so interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't necessarily start clean, boys. Texas moved the ball
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  Speaker 1: on the opening drive. Manning was sharp early, but they
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  Speaker 1: stalled out in the red zone and they had to
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  Speaker 1: kick a field goal. Ole Miss answered with a field
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  Speaker 1: goal of its own, and you kind of thought this
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  Speaker 1: might be a back-and-forth contest, didn't you? The score is
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  Speaker 1: 3-3 early in it. Then Manning throws a pick right
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  Speaker 1: there in the first quarter, and if you're a Texas fan,
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  Speaker 1: you felt it in your chest. Here we go again.
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  Speaker 1: Except the next play, Juice Cryer picks off Chambliss and
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  Speaker 1: hands it right back to Texas. To me, that's when
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  Speaker 1: the night turned. Manning hit Wingo for a big chunk play.
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  Speaker 1: Brown ripped off a long run, cut back, ran through
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  Speaker 1: a defender, got inside the five. Arch keeps it on
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  Speaker 1: a zone read, walks in 10-3. The next drive, Texas
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  Speaker 1: is behind the sticks, third and long. Manning tucks it,
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  Speaker 1: runs right up the middle of the Ole Miss defense line.
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  Speaker 1: Takes a shot, pops up, signals first down like he
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  Speaker 1: was trying to point straight into the press box. Then
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  Speaker 1: he drops back, throws it 50 yards in the air
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  Speaker 1: to Wingo on the money, touchdown at 17-3. That's the
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  Speaker 1: throw that's going to be in every highlight package, and
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  Speaker 1: it should be. But the run before it was the
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  Speaker 1: one that told me something was different. Texas tacked on
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  Speaker 1: another touchdown later in the quarter, 24-3. And the Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss Rebels, who came in averaging over 37 points a game,
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  Speaker 1: drove all the way down to the Texas goal line
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  Speaker 1: before half. They got inside the five, and they couldn't score.
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  Speaker 1: They throw a pick. No points. Halftime's there. Three-touchdown lead.
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  Speaker 1: Manning at the break, I believe 12 of 18, 164 yards.
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  Speaker 1: A touchdown through the air, a touchdown on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who was about to lose his job, supposedly,
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  Speaker 1: was playing one of the best halves of football that
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  Speaker 1: anybody had seen from him all year. So naturally, you'd
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  Speaker 1: think this one was over, right? You'd think, man, Texas
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  Speaker 1: got this easy. They responded. Not so fast. Before we
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  Speaker 1: in the description. The second half opened up about as
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  Speaker 1: badly as you could imagine. Texas gets the ball. There's
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  Speaker 1: an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty right away. There's a deep shot
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  Speaker 1: to Coleman that's dropped. Coleman leaves the field banged up.
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  Speaker 1: Manning fumbles. The ball squirts into the end zone. Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss falls on it. Defensive touchdown. It's 24-10. And you
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  Speaker 1: could feel it. You could feel the building change. Chambliss
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  Speaker 1: threw a six-yard touchdown to Fields to make it 24-17.
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  Speaker 1: That drive got help from Texas penalties along the way
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  Speaker 1: to make it worse. Manning took a sack, got hit hard,
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  Speaker 1: had to come off the field. So Lacy, the guy
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  Speaker 1: that everybody spent all week talking about, actually trotted out there.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it for a moment. The storyline of the week,
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  Speaker 1: walking onto the field with the lead slipping away. Manning
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  Speaker 1: did come back, of course, but by the early fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss had finished the job. 21 straight points to
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  Speaker 1: make it 24-24. Lead completely evaporated. Three straight weeks, three
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  Speaker 1: straight double-digit leads, three straight collapses in progress. So what
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  Speaker 1: does Texas do? Well, that's the whole game right there.
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  Speaker 1: Everything before that moment was a setup. Everything after it
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  Speaker 1: was our answer. Second down on one of the final
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  Speaker 1: drives and Relique Brown goes 47 yards. Michael Terry III
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  Speaker 1: picks up a first down. Another big run gets it
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  Speaker 1: to the one and Arch keeps it himself and pushes
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  Speaker 1: it in. 31-24, eight minutes left. Then, because this is
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  Speaker 1: Texas football in 2026 and nothing is allowed to be simple,
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  Speaker 1: Manning throws into triple coverage, gets picked off. It's his
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  Speaker 1: third turnover of the night, but the defense held. Texas
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  Speaker 1: gets the ball back. You hit a field goal with
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  Speaker 1: just under two and a half to go. It's 34
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  Speaker 1: to 24. Ole Miss is out of timeouts. And you think, okay,
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  Speaker 1: there's the ball game. I flipped over to the World
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  Speaker 1: Series to see what my Rays were doing. Unfortunately, we
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  Speaker 1: lost tonight, 0-2 in that series. But no, that's not
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  Speaker 1: the ballgame. Of course not. Chambliss starts dinking and dunking.
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  Speaker 1: You hit Odom over the middle. You get inside the
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  Speaker 1: Texas 25. Ole Miss kicks a field goal with 82
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  Speaker 1: seconds left on the clock to save some clock. And
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  Speaker 1: the Rebels, somehow, for the second time this year, Texas
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  Speaker 1: gives up an onside kick. Chambliss works it to just
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  Speaker 1: across midfield. They've got a fourth and eight. The season's
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  Speaker 1: on the line for both teams. He finds Deuce Alexander
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  Speaker 1: for nine yards, gets out of bounds at the Texas 39.
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  Speaker 1: They're still alive. They actually moved it all the way
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  Speaker 1: down to what, the Texas 24, before a penalty backed
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  Speaker 1: them up just a bit. Got one more chance at
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  Speaker 1: the end zone. Jelani McDonald comes down with it. And now,
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  Speaker 1: though you thought it was a couple of times, the
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  Speaker 1: game is officially over. Three quick thoughts and we'll get
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  Speaker 1: out of here. Takeaway number one, Arch answered, but he's
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  Speaker 1: not completely fixed yet. I want to be really fair
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  Speaker 1: here because I think the praise and the criticism for
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  Speaker 1: Arch are too loud at times. Both of these things
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  Speaker 1: that I want to say are true, I think, at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. Life is very rarely black and white.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of gray in the middle. Arch Manning
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  Speaker 1: responded this week exactly the way you want your quarterback
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  Speaker 1: to respond when his coach calls him out in public.
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  Speaker 1: Sark said he was edgy in practice. Manning said he
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  Speaker 1: plays his best football with his back up against the wall.
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  Speaker 1: And then he went out and backed it up. He
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  Speaker 1: had two rushing touchdowns, including the go-ahead score in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. He had a 50-yard dime to Wingo. He
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  Speaker 1: had a third and long scramble that set the tone
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  Speaker 1: for the first half. He's a leader, man. That's the
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  Speaker 1: guy Texas thought it was getting. But three turnovers, an
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  Speaker 1: interception in the first quarter, a fumble that turned into
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  Speaker 1: an Ole Miss touchdown to open the second half. another
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  Speaker 1: interception into triple coverage with the game on the line.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the same issues, the ones that cost you
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  Speaker 1: against Florida, the ball security, the forcing it, the one
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  Speaker 1: bad decision that flips a game late, same mistakes that
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  Speaker 1: happen against Oklahoma. So I don't think the quarterback controversy
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  Speaker 1: is completely dead. I think it's quieted because you beat
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  Speaker 1: a top 10 team tonight at home, but there is
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  Speaker 1: a difference there. The KJ Lacey conversation is not going
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  Speaker 1: to happen this week. Texas won. But it should be
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  Speaker 1: honestly done for a while. You're not going to bench
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Arch Manning. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: that was contrived. But Arch did survive Saturday. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that he solved it completely. Takeaway number two, the
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  Speaker 1: defense won this game without its best pass rusher. People
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  Speaker 1: are not talking about this enough, but Colin Simmons, massive
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  Speaker 1: loss going against a quarterback like Chambliss who wrecks you
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  Speaker 1: with his legs and his arm. And what did Texas'
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  Speaker 1: defense do? Three interceptions of the best quarterback in the country.
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  Speaker 1: The one by Cryer right after Manning's first pick, which
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  Speaker 1: stopped the bleeding before it started. The one by Biles
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  Speaker 1: at the goal line before the half, which was easily
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  Speaker 1: a seven-point swing in a game that was decided by
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  Speaker 1: exactly that seven, and then the one by McDonald to
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  Speaker 1: end it. That's the story. The offense put the defense
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  Speaker 1: in bad spots all night. Short fields, a defensive touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: a fourth-quarter interception, and every single time the game was
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  Speaker 1: hanging by a thread, the defense was the one holding it.
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  Speaker 1: Did they bend in the second half? Yes, big time. Penalties,
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  Speaker 1: extended drives. Ole Miss ripped off 21 straight points, 14
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  Speaker 1: of those on the defense, seven not. And they turned
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  Speaker 1: a blowout into a coin flip. You can't ignore that.
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  Speaker 1: But when the season was literally in the air on
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  Speaker 1: the final snap, it was the defense that went out
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  Speaker 1: and got it. Takeaway number three, Texas finally answered the punch.
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  Speaker 1: And that saves Sark for now. This is the big one.
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  Speaker 1: The difference between Saturday night and the last two weeks
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the lead. Texas had leads against Oklahoma. They had
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  Speaker 1: a lead against Florida. The difference was what happened after
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  Speaker 1: the lead was gone. Against Oklahoma, the comeback happened and
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  Speaker 1: Texas never answered. Against Florida, the comeback happened and Texas
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  Speaker 1: couldn't answer. Against Ole Miss, it was 24-24 in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. The crowd was nervous, the momentum was completely gone,
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  Speaker 1: and Texas went right down the field and scored. That
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  Speaker 1: is the drive that saved this season. That's the drive that,
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  Speaker 1: at least for now, is saving Steve Sarkeesian. And look
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  Speaker 1: at how they did it. Not with a trick play,
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  Speaker 1: not with some heave down the sideline. They ran the football.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to that Florida game for a second. Texas
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  Speaker 1: finished that one with 272 total yards. They were 2
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  Speaker 1: of 10 on third down. They were stuffed in short yardage.
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  Speaker 1: They were stopped on fourth downs. The knock all week
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  Speaker 1: was that this offense had no identity when it mattered,
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  Speaker 1: that Sark kept getting cute, and that Texas, when they
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  Speaker 1: needed one yard, couldn't find it. Sark even said after
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  Speaker 1: the Florida game that he had to stay creative without
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  Speaker 1: losing sight of who they are. Well, Saturday, with the
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  Speaker 1: game tied in the fourth quarter, Texas decided who it is.
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  Speaker 1: Relique Brown for 47, Michael Terry for another first down,
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  Speaker 1: another carry down to the one, quarterback keeper touchdown, a
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  Speaker 1: handful of plays, ground and pound, lean on people. That's
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  Speaker 1: the version of this offense that Texas fans have been
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  Speaker 1: begging for. It's not complicated. It's not always pretty. It's
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  Speaker 1: just physical football when the building is nervous and everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows what's coming. If that drive becomes the blueprint and
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  Speaker 1: not the exception, this team will be dangerous again. Because
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  Speaker 1: if Texas loses that game after blowing a 21-point lead
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  Speaker 1: for the third week straight at home, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what the buyout number is, the conversation in Austin becomes
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  Speaker 1: impossible to stop this week. But that didn't happen. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: Texas is 5-2. They're back to 2-2 in the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: They're still breathing. And there's a playoff path, but there's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of margin. Every Saturday from here on
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  Speaker 1: out is this Saturday. And here's the thing about the
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  Speaker 1: SEC right now. It is chaos. Ole Miss came in
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  Speaker 1: at 5-1 and 3-1 in league play and now has
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  Speaker 1: two losses. The middle of this conference is a traffic
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  Speaker 1: jam of teams with two losses all looking at each other.
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  Speaker 1: A team that wins out from here, even with two losses,
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  Speaker 1: is going to have the best argument. Can this Texas
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  Speaker 1: team win out? I have no idea. Saturday night, I
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  Speaker 1: watched them look like one of the best teams in
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  Speaker 1: the country for 30 minutes and then the most fragile
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  Speaker 1: team in the country for the next 25. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the first time in three weeks they got to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game, and the answer was yes. Sark survives,
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  Speaker 1: Arch survives, and most importantly, the season survives. But surviving
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  Speaker 1: is not the same thing as being fixed. And everybody
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  Speaker 1: in Austin knows that. Because for three straight weeks, this
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  Speaker 1: team has proven it can build a lead on anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night, it was the first time that it proved
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  Speaker 1: it could keep on. Barely. Let me know your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: down in the comments. Texas gets a huge win, a
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  Speaker 1: season-saving win. You'd have been unranked, I think, if you
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  Speaker 1: lose this one. Huge win for Texas and Arch Manning
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  Speaker 1: and Steve Sarkeesian. Love to hear what your thoughts are
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  Speaker 1: down in the comments. We'll see you next time on
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  Speaker 1: College Football Addiction.