Sitting in Morgantown following the program’s sixth-straight loss, Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian made a big claim.
“We’ve got a lot of Texas fight left in us — we’ll continue to battle, we’ll continue to compete,” he said.
But with a losing record secured in the midst of the program’s worst losing streak since 1956, Sarkisian’s statement seemed worthy of skepticism.
On Friday, however, a scrappy team riddled with injuries backed up their head coach, using a career game from junior running back Roschon Johnson and two fourth-down stops in an impressive second-half defensive performance to edge the Kansas State Wildcats, 22-17, at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.