A few accomplished starting quarterbacks return in the SEC next season, but Arch Manning's skills give him a case for being No. 1 in SEC quarterback rankings.

Manning's first game as the unquestioned face of Texas football will be against the same team Ewers faced in his last: Ohio State in Week 1.

Texas has reached consecutive College Football Playoff semifinals and posted 25 wins over two years. You have to go all the way back to when Colt McCoy was playing quarterback during coach Mack Brown's heyday more than 15 years ago to find a better stretch.

The Texas Longhorns will have high expectations going into 2025 after finishing two consecutive seasons in the College Football Playoff semifinals. Quinn Ewers has not officially announced his intentions for 2025, but the junior quarterback said before the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday that he expects to enter April's draft.

Texas QB Arch Manning is expected to get the Longhorns back into the College Football Playoff next year, and more, regardless of who's around him in Austin.

While much of the attention in the immediate aftermath of Texas's 28-14 loss to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl, may have gone to whether or not this was indeed s

Something that Ewers' time in Austin will also be remembered for despite leading Texas to its first Big 12 title since 2009, and two College Football Playoff appearances. The Manning name is simply too big to ignore, and fans are ready for the youngest Manning quarterback to step in.

The bulk of football fandom wants to see the highly touted Arch Manning against the Buckeyes, but the Longhorns have a plan in place

No one played a bigger role in rebuilding the Texas Longhorns than three-year starting quarterback Quinn Ewers, and now his days in the Burnt Orange are over