Texas coach Steve Sarkisian told ESPN in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cGranted, there were some great moments. He threw nine touchdowns and almost a thousand yards. There was a couple of bad picks in there, too. And in the end, I think he understands he is not riding the emotional roller coaster of the opinions of others and staying [with a] level of consistency in his approach, in his play, in his ability to pick people up. Easier said than done when you\u2019re not in the real fire of it all. But we are fortunate that he got exposed to some of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arch now has the opportunity to become the third generation of a full-fledged dynasty. But in an interesting twist, this era of the Manning legacy may owe as much to a matriarch as to any of the men.<\/p>\n
No one would ever confuse Peyton or Eli for dual-threat quarterbacks, each capping his SEC career with more than 100 yards lost on the ground. In the few sneak previews Sarkisian offered of Arch a season ago, the prince demonstrated mobility that, at SEC media days, he credited to his mother, Ellen, a track and volleyball standout in high school.<\/p>\n
And, indeed, Arch rushed for 108 yards and four touchdowns in 2024, the last of which came in a 17\u20137 win over rival Texas A&M on the Longhorns\u2019 way to a berth in the College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s the Manning name that has placed Arch squarely in the spotlight, it will be his ability to do some things in his own way that earns him a seat on the throne.<\/p>\n
The test begins Aug. 30 in Columbus, Ohio, when Texas \u2014 No. 1 in the preseason coaches poll \u2014 meets No. 2 Ohio State in the season opener. With a Texas win that day, the coronation would begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College football\u2019s prince doesn\u2019t wear a jeweled crown. Instead, Arch Manning dons luxury athletic shorts. Ahead of his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-123933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114982563706379977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}