{"id":187800,"date":"2025-08-30T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187800\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:18:14","slug":"arch-manning-has-awful-first-half-as-texas-starting-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187800\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Manning has awful first half as Texas’ starting QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world waited for two years to see Arch Manning start for Texas.<\/p>\n

And in the first half against Ohio State, the\u00a0world got an explanation for why Arch Manning was sitting for the last two years.<\/p>\n

Manning short-armed throws, threw into coverage and failed to get any traction at all on offense in the first 30 minutes at The Shoe.<\/p>\n

The highly touted QB went into the half just 5-for-10 for 26 yards, with the Longhorns failing to make it past the Ohio State 40-yard-line as the Buckeyes claimed a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the Buckeyes do have a highly touted defense and Columbus is a tough place to play.<\/p>\n

\"ArchTexas and Arch Manning did not score in the first half Saturday. Kyle Robertson\/USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

But Manning, a five-star quarterback hyped as a potential No. 1 overall pick, was expected to do much more than this with Texas the preseason No. 1 based in no small part on him being under center.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still the second half to try to turn things around, and luckily for Texas, Ohio State and its quarterback, Julian Sayin, didn\u2019t look much better.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes did get down the field for a touchdown, but otherwise, this was a defensive slugfest where neither team ran the ball well or had great quarterback play.<\/p>\n

A game that was hyped as a pair of offensive juggernauts instead has the feel of Purdue-Iowa in a November gale.<\/p>\n

\"TexasArch Manning had a rough first half. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Manning and the Longhorns will need to change that in the second half, though Ohio State will start with the ball and a chance to extend its lead.<\/p>\n

In any case, Manning should look better against lighter competition \u2014 the Longhorns face San Jose State and UTEP the next two weeks \u2014 but NFL evaluators will have to grapple with some less-than-ideal tape from this one.<\/p>\n

And come SEC play \u2014 or, preferably, come the second half \u2014 there will need to be significant improvement, otherwise Texas could be in trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world waited for two years to see Arch Manning start for Texas. And in the first half…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23603,1428,4733,62,9662,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-187800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arch-manning","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-texas-longhorns","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115119332045423581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187800","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=187800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}