AUSTIN, Texas -- Arch Manning arrived in rather modest style.
Texas' team buses pulled up right on schedule outside Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium at 4:40 p.m. Saturday. Manning stepped out and onto San Jacinto Boulevard in a navy suit paired with a white shirt and a brown striped tie. On his shoulders, he carried a black backpack as well as the modest weight of Texas fans' hopes and dreams.
Unlike most Longhorn teammates, though, Manning did not wear headphones. On the team's traditional Stadium Stampede walk into the stadium, lined with fans cheering while holding phones and horns up, the young quarterback took it all in.