The Flagship: Reacting to Texas' dominant win over Rice

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4.8 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Longhorns rebounded in a big way Saturday night in Austin when Texas dominated Rice 58-0. After a humbling Week 2 loss to Arkansas, the Longhorns made a statement at all three phases of the game in the final non-conference regular-season matchup of Year 1 of the Steve Sarkisian era.

On this week's episode of The Flagship Podcast, Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes react to the Longhorns' performance against the Owls starting with the production of the Texas offense. Junior quarterback Casey Thompson logged his first career start at Texas and made his first college start one to remember as Thompson led the Texas offense on seven of eight scoring drives, all of which ended with touchdowns, before he hung it up midway through the third quarter.

The Flagship also weighs in on the electric performance from the Texas running back room against the Rice defense, which has been a recent strength for the Owls under Mike Bloomgren, and rushed for a total 427 yards and six touchdowns in the ball game. Four different RBs found the end zone against Rice, led by sophomore RB Bijan Robinson with 127 yards and three touchdowns, while Roschon Johnson, Keilan Robinson and Jonathon Brooks all added a touchdown of their own.

The Flagship then shifts focus to the defensive side of the ball in the shutout of Rice, which marked the first shutout win for Texas since 2017. The Longhorns enforced their will early and often against the Owls, and held the Rice offense to less than 300 total yards and no points.

Texas fans won't want to miss this loaded game reaction edition of The Flagship Podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome in everybody to the flagship podcast.
0:13.7	I am Chip Brown columnist at Horns247.com, joined as always by our fearless leader, the managing editor of Horns 247,
0:25.8	the one and only Taylor Estes. Taylor, how you doing after a 58-0-0 beatdown of rice by Texas Saturday
0:35.6	night? Yeah, I'm doing I'm doing well personally. I would imagine
0:39.8	most Texas fans are waking up on a Sunday here after that game, pretty happy with what they
0:44.8	saw from, you know, their longhorns. But overall, I'm doing well. Just running on, you know,
0:50.2	minimal hours of sleep right now. So apologies, if we look tired because we are. How are you doing,
0:56.0	Chip? Yeah. I mean, you and I were just talking about last, well, Arkansas, we did the podcast right
1:03.3	after the game and tonight's game was a little bit later than that one. And so we waited until
1:10.5	Sunday morning to do it. But I'm
1:12.0	wondering if now we should just do them all right after the game because my eyes reflect how
1:19.7	little sleep I got last night. But enough about us. Let's get into what happened Saturday night
1:27.2	because I think I look at what happened
1:29.9	Saturday night as a monumental shift in the Texas football season. And I think a lot of fans are
1:38.2	like, oh, we beat rice. This is so boring. And we learned nothing. And I'm sitting here saying, okay, this is so boring and we learned nothing.
1:45.0	And I'm sitting here saying, okay, you found your quarterback.
1:49.8	It's Casey Thompson.
1:52.0	He's led Texas to points on 16 of his last 18 drives.
1:58.5	14 of those 16 went for touchdowns, including all seven of his touch, all seven of his
2:08.6	drives to points last night. He led them to points on seven of eight drives, all for touchdowns,
2:17.2	converted a fourth and three, converted a third
2:21.0	and 14 from his own seven, was even a lead blocker on a 27-yard run by Rochon Johnson,
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