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.

According to Archie, Howard and Leonard were roommates at the Manning Passing Academy last summer, adding another roommate narrative to the college football postseason (after Ohio State’s Jack Sawyer sealed his team’s win with a play against his former roommate, Quinn Ewers).

If anyone can relate to what Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning will experience next season, it’s former Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel. Like Manning,

But Manning has done everything his way through his recruitment and since he got to Texas. And now, finally, with Ewers announcing for the NFL Draft on Wednesday, the keys are in Manning’s hands to run the Longhorns’ offense. He’s being handed a Lamborghini and Manning should make it purr.

The stage for the College Football Playoff national title game is set after Notre Dame took down Penn State in the Orange Bowl and Ohio State knocked off Texas

Smith and Manning are among the rising superstars who not only helped their teams get to the 2024 postseason but also figure to define the race to the 2025 national championship. They will be household names next fall as two of the biggest figures in the entire sport.

"Arch is very good," Klatt said. "There were points in the season that I thought they should have put Arch in the game. He's more mobile. I think that he drives the football into

Texas junior quarterback Quinn Ewers declared for the NFL draft on Wednesday, ending a Longhorns career in which he led the program to a Big 12 championship and twice to the College Football Playoff but was not always embraced by a fan base eagerly waiting for Arch Manning to take over.

The Texas junior QB started an interesting public debate after he rejected alleged lucrative NIL deals to be on the NFL Draft for potentially less money.

Just more than a week after its season ended in the College Football Playoff with a semifinal loss to Ohio State, Texas has agreed to a new contract with Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian, a source told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Saturday,

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