There was no repeat of last week's wrist scare — Manning played every snap and threw the ball 32 times, a workload that says whatever he dealt with against Ohio State wasn't a lingering issue. Kickoff temperatures ran hotter than forecast, with conditions at DKR settling into the mid-90s and cloud cover instead of the clear skies expected, not that it slowed a Texas team that scored in three of the four quarters.
The story was really on the other side of the ball. Texas held UTSA out of the end zone for the first time since October 2020, snapping a 74-game streak of finding paydirt that had survived every opponent Jeff Traylor's program had faced in six seasons. The Roadrunners managed only 143 total yards, and their best answer was a pair of field goals sandwiched around long defensive stretches that limited Texas to nothing more than a field goal itself in the third quarter.
Traylor's record against ranked opponents now sits at 1-12, with the program's lone win in that stretch still coming against a team nowhere near this caliber. Texas, meanwhile, moves to 3-0 and heads into SEC play having answered the only real question left over from the Ohio State win — whether last week's slow start was a warning sign. It mostly wasn't, even if 161 passing yards against a team this overmatched is not the kind of number that will silence every doubt before conference play starts.