AUSTIN, Texas – Previous to a 3-hour, 11-minute window on Saturday afternoon, the Colorado State offense wished to crash the celebration surrounding Texas’ season-opening recreation. However the Longhorns’ defensive unit had different concepts as UT held the Rams to simply 192 yards of complete offense all through the course of its’ 52-0 win over CSU.
“I believe we achieved loads of the issues I hoped we might right now,” stated Texas soccer head coach Steve Sarkisian. “We performed 51 totally different gamers within the first half, so from that side, it was good to have loads of guys get into the sport and become involved within the recreation. I assumed we did a pleasant job of taking part in complimentary soccer.
“Though we did not quiet discover the rhythm in the course of the first quarter, we had been capable of finding that rhythm within the second quarter. After which to come back out after halftime and proceed to play that approach all through the third quarter — on each side of the ball — was huge.”
Because the solar was beating down on the 99, 171 seated inside Darrell Okay. Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium, the Texas protection gave these already of their seats at kickoff one thing to cheer about proper off the bat because the Longhorn defensive unit allowed only one yard to Colorado State after three offensive performs because the Rams had been backed up towards their purpose line following a 39-yard punt Michael Kern punt.
The offense carried the momentum over to the opposite facet of the road of scrimmage simply minutes later as redshirt-junior quarterback Quinn Ewers orchestrated a four-play, 64-yard drive that took only one minute, 43 seconds off the clock and was capped by a 3-yard speeding landing by Quintrevion Wisner, the second rating within the final 4 video games for the sophomore again.
On the next offensive sequence, Colorado State labored its approach to the Texas 44-yard line following a 1-yard rush by operating again Justin Marshall. It was the final time the Rams crossed the midfield stripe till backup quarterback Jackson Brousseau and Jordan Ross related for a 7-yard completion that took CSU from its 49-yard line to the Texas 44 with lower than two minutes to play within the fourth quarter.
“From a defensive standpoint, I used to be pleased with our secondary to essentially reduce their offensive performs,” Sarkisian stated. “These guys have actually been listening to about themselves all offseason, so for them to come back out and shutdown that passing recreation the way in which that they did was good.”
In between Colorado State’s first and second occasions crossing the 50-yard line, the Texas offense was doing it on a constant foundation.
Following the primary 15-minute phase that noticed the Longhorns take a 7-0 lead into the second quarter, Ewers related with first-year Longhorns Matthew Golden and Isaiah Bond for 3 second half passing touchdowns. The three passing touchdowns — mixed with a 45-yard area purpose off the foot of Bert Auburn — ballooned the Longhorn lead from 7-0 to 31-0 by halftime and gave UT its largest halftime lead since Nov. 19, 2022, when Texas led Kansas, 31-0, at intermission.
Ewers accomplished 10-of-13 passes for 121 yards and three touchdowns in the course of the second quarter because the Texas offense compiled 155 yards on 20 performs because the protection held Colorado State to simply 44 on 16 performs from the road of scrimmage.
Texas backup quarterback Arch Manning picked up proper the place Ewers left off when the New Orleans native entered the sport with 4:04 remaining within the third quarter with the Longhorns main 38-0 following the primary profession speeding landing by freshman Jerrick Gibson three minutes earlier.
On his play, Manning related with Johntay Prepare dinner II for a 40-yard reception to spark a four-play, 49-yard drive that concluded one minute and 41 seconds after it began with a 5-yard passing landing from Manning to Silas Bolden, the primary profession passing and receiving landing for Manning and Bolden, respectively, at Texas.
Manning put the ending touchdowns on Texas’ first shutout in a season-opening recreation since 2004 when the redshirt-freshman discovered the top zone from one yard away on a fourth-down play lower than 5 minutes into the sport’s fourth quarter.
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With its home-opening recreation now within the rearview mirror following Saturday’s motion, Texas (1-0) will hit the street for the primary time in the course of the 2024 season subsequent trip when the Longhorns journey to Ann Arbor, Mich., the place it’s going to play Michigan at 11 a.m. CT on Saturday, Sept. 7 on FOX.
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