r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 13 '26

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Texas Defeats Ohio State 24-23

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Ohio State 10 10 3 0 23
Texas 0 3 0 21 24
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u/Squishy_20 Kansas State Wildcats • Big 12 Sep 13 '26

Props to Texas for never quitting. They could’ve easily folded after being down 23-3

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u/manabanana21 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

For real. Some real coaching criticisms for Texas but you can’t argue their fight. The boys gave it all tonight.

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u/emoney_gotnomoney Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

As soon as y’all muffed a punt inside the 10, recovered it, converted a 4th and 9 in your own territory a few plays later, fumbled it again a few plays later and recovered it again, then finally scored your first touchdown to cut it to 13 (all in the same drive), I knew y’all were 100% going to win.

You just can’t make this shit up.

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u/ATXBeermaker Texas Longhorns • Stanford Cardinal Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

Well when you put it that way …

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u/No-Builder-1038 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Fail upwards!

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u/Unofficial_Salt_Dan Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

In the Navy, we called it "rising to your level of incompetency" lol

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u/d-nihl Sep 13 '26

As soon as ya'lls scored, scored again, again and again, I knew it was over.

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u/NecessaryMoons UCLA Bruins • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26

Really?  I was still on the edge of my seat until that last penalty on Ohio State’s final drive.

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u/PepsiRacer4 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

It's a Ryan Day team in the regular season, he's fantastic at shitting the bed and throwing high profile games like this

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u/LiveNvanByRiver Texas Longhorns • Texas State Bobcats Sep 13 '26

Except the last two times we played

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u/PepsiRacer4 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

Those are very small and insignificant at the end of the day when you look at his whole body of work outside of the NT season and even that was marred by the horiffic Michigan loss

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u/cjgozdor Michigan • Eastern Michigan Sep 13 '26

It makes me feel so happy to hear you say that ❤️

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u/brucewayneaustin Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

omg!!!

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u/Dr_Findro Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

When I saw us fumble the first snap on a throw to the flat and the ball bounce off of Cam Coleman for an interception I thought there was divine energy against us

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u/TheFlyingBoat Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Sep 13 '26

I literally threw up my hands, said it was the Ted Cruz Curse and gave up. Thankfully a more powerful force came in to save us

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u/TempSpee Jackson State Tigers Sep 13 '26

I'll say this. The longhorns and running flat outside passes or (check downs) is so exhausting and funny. Coach Steve didn't have any 10+ post routes for us lol despite the recovery the defense made.

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u/Dr_Findro Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

I am so tired of horizontal passes haha. They work when our team is vastly more talented that our opponent. But not elite competition

I like to think that our fans Boo’d Steve in to stop calling those plays

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u/_Football_Cream_ Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Idk man Arch also was not seeing some wide open stuff. I know it's easy to armchair coach as I watch from the upper level, and it's a great defense, but lots of instances the play developing correctly but holding it too long and missing the windows.

Sark is one of the absolute best at drawing up screens, they're not as problematic as people make them out to be and a huge part of our offense. Most of the bad behind the line throws last night were Arch taking too long and settling for a bad check down rather than a designed horizontal throw (though there were some of those).

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u/CowApprehensive9459 SMU Mustangs Sep 13 '26

I knew it too haha. I was like yeah they gonna win from behind aren’t they? And the beginning felt scripted too, first play being a fumble.

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u/LiveNvanByRiver Texas Longhorns • Texas State Bobcats Sep 13 '26

The energy blew that missed field goal in our favor

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u/Treskelion2021 Texas Longhorns • India National Team Sep 13 '26

Especially the insanity of the first two turnovers in the first quarter.

The dropped TD by Wingo add 4 more points too.

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u/TeeDeeTeeEcks Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Man, that's the sort of thing that would sound fucking ridiculous in a movie script. What a bizarre win to cap off a wonderful day of college football. I love this sport

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u/Lonetrek Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors • Aloha Bowl Sep 13 '26

Hawaii kicks off in 15. You can catch us potentially embarrassing ourselves.

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u/Doc_McPuffins_ Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Do you guys have Dr. Pepper in your vending machines yet?

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u/mutingantiwork Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Against who

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u/Iernt Sep 13 '26

The Aggies! The New Mexico State chapter

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u/LiveNvanByRiver Texas Longhorns • Texas State Bobcats Sep 13 '26

As I tell my son “this is why we play the game. You never know what will actually happen.”

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u/GuidanceMaleficent82 Sep 13 '26

It goes both ways. Wingo dropped a sure fire TD for us, Cam drops that bomb at the beginning as well..

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u/love_that_fishing Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Reminded me of the A&M / USC game last year down 27 and once they scored that 2nd TD you knew it was over.

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u/Jackson3125 Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout Sep 13 '26

I think that was two years ago in a bowl game.

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u/love_that_fishing Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

No it was last year A&M was down 27 to South Carolina. They’re called USC as well.

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u/Jackson3125 Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout 29d ago

Ah. You’re right. I guess when I hear “Aggies” and “blown lead” I revert to the usual suspect…

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u/Fountain_Of_Euth Sep 13 '26

That's football. If the defender doesn't luck out on the first play of the game and backheel the ball for a fumble; if coleman's deflection didnt go straight to the DB; if wingo doesn't drop an easy TD. That's football.

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u/Bank_Gothic Sewanee Tigers • Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

You were infinitely more confident than I was then

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u/the_jobernaut Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Lucky breaks go both ways. They got theirs in the first half with the weird fumble on the first play and the fluky interception off Coleman. Football is weird man

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u/Artistic-Spirit-8516 Sep 13 '26

Almost makes up for the first two turnover flukes imo

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u/philleferg Arkansas Razorbacks • Oklahoma Sooners Sep 13 '26

It was like watching the Razorbacks....except they won. God damn it, I can't wait for basketball season.

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u/Fountain_Of_Euth Sep 13 '26

Maybe try for a TD this year!

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u/philleferg Arkansas Razorbacks • Oklahoma Sooners Sep 13 '26

Nah, not getting my hopes up on a long shot.

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u/meatmacho Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

At the beginning of that drive, I looked at my FIL and said, "This is it. If they can't get a touchdown on this drive, then the whole season is in question."

Then they gave themselves every opportunity to fail to score a TD. But damn if they didn't turn the train completely around after that.

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u/Waste-Bodybuilder981 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Its all to counter-balance thr crazy bounce on the interception 

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u/Beautiful_Idea6200 Georgia Bulldogs • William & Mary Tribe Sep 13 '26

Yeah I took some flak for saying both teams were poor in the second half, but this drive is exactly what started my line of thinking.

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u/TheFlyingBoat Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Sep 13 '26

I need to figure out who buttered our team’s gloves

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u/Pogball_so_hard Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

To be fair that interception Arch threw in the first quarter which squirted right into the CB’s hands made me feel like Texas was just cursed

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u/badlydrawnzombie Notre Dame • Jeweled Shillelagh Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

Exactly. Because that's the type of bullshit that haunts you as an opposing fan. College football is cursed like the monkey paw and it will fucking wrap it's stupid little fingers on you. But if you get too close to it and think oh shit, we converted this 4th and 16, we're gonna win! Then you lose. It's a fine line of stupid shit that needs to be tread and I can guarantee that it's probably all due to some Ohio State fan that finally switched his underwear after they got too itchy.

Edit. I don't need to prove this, these messages are sent through Saint Francis. He says shut up.

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u/jgregers Michigan Wolverines • Oregon Ducks Sep 13 '26

Whattheeverlivingfuck. I watched the Iowa game from this point!???

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u/bro69 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

i’m sorry what did you say? A ball just bounced off of my hands and into yours

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u/HoustonTrashcans Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Pretty much everything had to go right in the 2nd half for Texas, but it did.

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u/Brimstone11 Sep 13 '26

And the game opened with a fumble, and the luckiest INT I’ve laid my eyes on in a long time

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u/EpiphyticOrchid8927 Sickos • Hateful 8 Sep 13 '26

damn missed an insane quarter

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u/TempSpee Jackson State Tigers Sep 13 '26

That's why I said pray and look at the stat sheets. Sure enough the longhorns are rank 4 with plenty time to play at the half. And exactly what you would think really happened. Besides what coach Steve Sarkisian has been known to do when bringing in new players with a pretty solid quarterback.

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u/FalseSearch3873 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Looks like you chose the wrong school. Or the other way around…

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u/ozymandais13 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26

After yall won I knew you were gonna win