Inside the Numbers: All-timer on the ground for Texas against Kansas

The recipe for a win against the Kansas Jayhawks has been to run the ball and Texas Longhorns head coach and playcaller Steve Sarkisian got the message after under-using the playmaker a week ago.

It was feeding Bijan that got Texas the lead, but it was the team performance in the ground game on both sides of the ball that secured the win for the Longhorns and kept them alive in the conference race.

Texas rushing: 427 total rushing yards (7.5 yards per carry), 6 rushing touchdowns

It was nearly an all-timer for the Longhorns on the ground, finishing just five yards shy of the top 20 rushing performances in school history. It also, coincidentally, marks the second time in the last two years that…