It may not have been rock bottom, but it was pretty close to the nadir of Arch Manning’s collegiate career just three weeks ago. The week prior, Manning sank the Longhorns with two fourth-quarter interceptions in the Red River Rivalry game against Oklahoma and was coming off of quarterbacking the Texas offense to a second-half collapse vs. Florida.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Manning. His struggles as a first-year starter could be shrugged away as growing pains, but this? His struggles as a second-year starter and fourth-year college quarterback could no longer be downplayed. Not by coach Steve Sarkisian, whose seat temperature has been rapidly increasing, nor by Manning, whose play was beginning to point to the marriage with the Longhorns being a poor decision.
