ARLINGTON and AUSTIN, Texas — The coaches for the No. 10 Texas Longhorns have something of a conundrum — the need to come out of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium with a win against a Louisiana Tech Bulldogs team with some legitimate talent and the need to get repetitions for redshirt freshman quarterback Casey Thompson.
Following the departures of graduate transfer Shane Buechele and Thompson’s classmate Cameron Rising, Thompson went from competing with Rising for the third-string role to finding himself as a back up to junior starter Sam Ehlinger.