Inside the Numbers: The Texas offense found a winning recipe

The No. 7 Texas Longhorns continue to improve late in the season and look closer to the team we expected them to be preseason for the first time this year. They played complementary football in Saturday’s 34-20 win over the No. 18 Missouri Tigers, led by an offense that played within itself, while the defense continued to stymie what opponents wanted to do. The Longhorns went on the road and played a great game against the Tigers, with room to improve ahead of their penultimate road test of the regular season.

Texas offense: 373 total yards (76 rushing, 297 passing)

It wasn’t perfect, but the offense looked better than it has for most of the season, finding ways to compensate for their…