Texas 30-6 UTSA (Sep 19, 2026) Final Score

Team pages: UTSA · Texas

UTSA2-16

No. 1 Texas3-030Final

Sat, Sep 19 · DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas · Crowd 103,753SECN+

No. 1 Texas beat UTSA 30-6.

We had Texas favored. It won.

Next: UTSA beat Colorado State 59-45, Sat Sep 26

Next: Texas beat Tennessee 20-17, Sat Sep 26

Top comment in the game thread

These commentators are so anti Texas it’s insane lmao. “Great coverage” and it’s literally UTSA tackling Coleman while the ball is in the air

Q3 8:05 · r/CFB game thread · Sat, Sep 19

How it swung

Before kickoff, our ratings gave Texas a 72% chance, and the closing betting line (Texas was a 29.5-point favorite) put it at 99%.

Texas led by 7 after the first quarter and by 17 at the half.

Favored the whole way: Texas never fell below 98%.

UTSA never had better than a 2% chance.

FinalTexas 30-6 UTSATexas wonMove across the chart, or tap a numbered swing, to see any play.

No single play moved the chance by 20 points.

What fans said, play by play

The line in bold above each quote is written by our model from the thread’s comments and the play-by-play.

Q2 11:26Manning throws touchdown pass to Coleman as Texas extends lead to 17-3I love Cam Coleman.r/CFB game thread
Q3 8:05Texas fans argue commentators are biased after no pass interference call on Manning pass to ColemanQuoted at the top of the page.Being a Texas fan is absolutely exhausting.. lmaor/CFB game thread
Q3 4:39Fans mock officials for throwing excessive flags during Texas driveHonestly I wouldn't mind if Texas got bumped in the rankings, they haven't looked good and I feel like the longhorns play better when they feel disrespected.r/CFB game threadUTSA is so good they’re making Texas look bad, can we all just agree to that narrative? Please!r/CFB game thread
Q3 0:12Texas fans criticize Manning's incomplete pass and uncalled pass interferenceback in my day they threw flags for pass interferencer/CFB game threadAm I dumb and not understand pass interference?r/CFB game thread
Q4 11:55Fans call a roughing penalty on Texas soft and terribleI’m with Traylor. Wtf was that roughing call? Soft af.r/CFB game threadAbsolutely awful flagr/CFB game thread
Q4 8:57Texas fans worry about Arch Manning's health after a hitThat TD felt dirty considering the penalty that aided Texas.r/CFB game thread

Texas’s chance to win after every play.

How to read this chart

Starts from the pregame line (Texas -29.5), at 98% for Texas (the play-by-play feed's kickoff number, moved to match the line; our model's and the betting line's own numbers are in “The betting line, and the fans”). Dots are the biggest swings; ticks under the chart are scores. Under the scores, r/CFB comments per minute from fans with a Texas or UTSA flair (678 and 144); both sides share one scale, regulation only. A gold diamond marks a play fans were reacting to.

Watch the plays

The bar and the arrow show Texas’s chance to win after each play; the logo is the team the play helped.

Every drive

Texas scored on 6 of its 13 drives; UTSA on 2 of its 11.

Texas’s drives are teal, UTSA’s amber. A line runs from where a drive started to where it ended; a filled dot means it scored.

“Arch completely rattled against UTSA.”

A Texas fan

When fans got loud

Busy

The loudest stretch came in the fourth quarter.

Jump to the loudest stretch

The jump was busy; the crowd was steady.

A large share of the loudest stretch was about the officiating.

What it cost

Texas’s chance to make the playoff rose from 70% to 73%.

Make the playoff

UTSA · lost0% → 0%

Texas · won70% → ▲73%

Before the game (September 19, 2026) → after this result, in our model.

Box score

Texas 30, UTSA 6

UTSA covered +29.5 by 5.5. The total, 36, stayed under 58.5.

Team totals	UTSA	Texas
Total yards	142	400
Passing	14 of 23, 70 yds	18 of 35, 172 yds
Rushing	24 for 72 yds	48 for 228 yds
First downs	9	27
Third down	1 of 11	7 of 17
Fourth down	0 of 0	0 of 2
Turnovers	1	0
Penalties	12 for 115 yds	8 for 88 yds
Time of possession	23:09	36:51

UTSA leaders

Passing Owen McCown 14 of 23, 70 yds, 1 INT
Rushing Will Henderson III 10 for 38 yds; Brandon High 5 for 16 yds
Receiving Brandon High 3 for 20 yds; DJ Allen 2 for 15 yds

Texas leaders

Passing Arch Manning 17 of 33, 164 yds, 2 TD
Rushing Daylan Smothers 10 for 54 yds; Arch Manning 9 for 50 yds
Receiving Cam Coleman 4 for 59 yds, 2 TD; Emmett Mosley V 3 for 28 yds

No rain and calm

93° at kickoff · no rain recorded · wind 5 mph from the southeast, gusts to 14

September game-day temperatures at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium

Drag along the chart, or step through the game.

First quarter, 14:51 left7:03 p.m.

UTSA 0, Texas 0 · Texas 98% to win

no rain · wind 7 mph from the south-southeast, gusts to 14 · 92°

McCown intercepted by Biles at the UTSA 30, unsportsmanlike conduct on Texas

Where this weather comes from

Measured at Austin - City/camp Mabry airport, 3.1 miles away. Rain is NOAA's radar-and-gauge estimate at the stadium and wind is an airport reading; neither is measured on the field. Game times come from the play-by-play, good to a minute or two. Source: National Weather Service, through the Iowa Environmental Mesonet; rain radar from NOAA MRMS, through Iowa State University. Field direction from OpenStreetMap contributors.

Before kickoff

Recent games, the series and the betting line below are as they stood going in; the season profile is the season so far.

Recent games

Last two games

UTSA · 2-0

Rated 18th in our preseason ratings, 14th now.

Two straight wins, capped by a 5-point win over Texas State as a 1.5-point underdog.

W 31-26 @ Texas State #32 of 668

won by 5 as a 1.5-point underdog

W 45-16 vs UT Rio Grande Valley #139 of 668

won by 29 as a 28.5-point favorite

Last two games

Texas · 2-0

Rated 5th in our preseason ratings, 4th now.

Two straight wins, 2 over ranked or top-40 competition.

W 24-23 vs Ohio StateTop 25 #1 of 668

won by 1 as a 2.5-point favorite

W 59-7 vs Texas State #31 of 668

won by 52 as a 29.5-point favorite

Week by week

Texas

Wk 1Wvs Texas State59-7
Wk 2Wvs Ohio State24-23

UTSA

Wk 1Wvs UT Rio Grande Valley45-16
Wk 2Wat Texas State31-26

Power rating by week

Texas is rated 5.8 points ahead as of week 2. Our power rating by week; higher is better.

Matchups

Biggest mismatch: UTSA’s explosive plays against Texas, 82 points

Each row ranks the two sides among all teams. The longer the line, the bigger the mismatch.

UTSA’s explosive plays against Texas’s defense
UTSA offense, 16th percentile · Texas defense, 98th
UTSA’s passing EPA against Texas’s defense
UTSA offense, 47th percentile · Texas defense, 74th
UTSA’s success rate against Texas’s defense
UTSA offense, 71st percentile · Texas defense, 87th

Season profile, all the rows

Season profile

UTSATexas

EPA/play, offense

EPA/play, defense

Success rate, offense

Success rate, defense

Explosive-play rate, offense

Explosive-play rate, defense

Rush EPA, offense

Rush EPA, defense

Pass EPA, offense

Pass EPA, defense

The series

Texas leads the series 2-0

2 meetings since 2022 · Texas has won the last 2

2024Texas 56-7
2022Texas 41-20

Each line is Texas’s chance to win through that meeting.

Line, fans and home field

The betting line, and the fans

UTSA fans are in a better mood than Texas fans (73rd vs 37th among FBS fanbases), even with Texas favored.

Texas favored by 29.5 · Total 58.5

How games like this usually go

Texas by 29.5, and it went to form

Half of games8 in 10 gamesThis game

The band is where a favorite’s chance ran in the 411 games since 2025 with a favorite of 21.5 points or more.

The market

The total rose 1 point.

The books’ cut: 3.3%, the margin built into the odds

Weather at kickoff

Hot and dry. Feels like 92° at kickoff.

UTSA at Texas · Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026 · DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin

92°feels like at kickoff
Dryno rain at kickoff
74weather score, Rough
Tiedfor the best of the day's 8 kickoff times

At kickoff, Sept. 19, 2026.

Weather score: 0 to 100, higher is better, for the first 3 hours and 20 minutes of the game. Ideal is 100, Comfortable 90 to 99, Mixed 75 to 89, Rough 50 to 74, Harsh under 50.

Kickoff times that Saturday

Games in this time zone used 8 kickoff times that day, local time (kickoffs within 30 minutes of each other count as one). This game, ringed, was tied for the best of the day's eight kickoff times. At DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium that day, a 2:30 pm kickoff would have scored 49, against 74 at 7 pm.

11 am: 57, Rough
11:45 am: 53, Rough
1 pm: 52, Rough
2:30 pm: 49, Harsh
3:30 pm: 51, Rough
6 pm: 66, Rough
6:30 pm: 72, Rough
7 pm: 74, Rough (this game)

Weather score at each kickoff time.

Tap a dot to read that kickoff time.

At kickoff, Sept. 19, 2026. Wind is not drawn here; gusts are in each score.

Home field

Texas is worth +7.3 points (±3.5) more at home than on the road since 2018 — top tenth of FBS, 95th percentile.

81% at home, 63% on the road against FBS opponents (44-10 home, 22-13 away).

Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge (why); the books use about 3. Against the closing line this stadium reads +4.4 at home vs. away over 89 games — inside the ±5.6 noise, so the flat number is the honest one here.

Night kickoff — historically worth about half a point more to the home side against the number, and not much more than that. The visitors travel about 75 miles to get here.

No. 1 Texas beats UTSA 30-6