In shades of 2021, the No. 7 Texas Longhorns built up a big early lead but found itself in a tight game with the No. 23 Kansas State Wildcats late, coming away with a narrow overtime win at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
It wasn’t pretty, and Texas may have more gaps than previously thought, but in a survive-and-advance mode, the Longhorns got the job done — Steve Sarkisian’s team is still in control of its destiny in the Big 12 and the College Football Playoff.
1. Texas needs an answer at quarterback
When Quinn Ewers went down against the Houston Cougars, Maalik Murphy wasn’t asked to do much, so the last two weeks have been his baptism into the world of starting quarterbacks.