Slow starts and big finishes. The No. 3 Texas Longhorns have been quite the second half team this season.
And that is a big change. Texas was just as likely to surrender a late lead than stretch one in Sarkisian’s first two seasons.
Texas finished off Alabama in emphatic fashion. The Tide had taken the lead late in the third quarter when the Longhorns immediately answered with a touchdown drive to go back ahead, stretched the lead to 10, and then put the game away with a clock-killing drive that consumed the final seven minutes.
“Sark said in camp, ‘We need to start winning games in the fourth quarter.’ We’d been losing that lately. He put that into our head,” Worthy said.Texas’ first drive against Rice went four plays and got stuffed on fourth down. Alabama forced a punt. So did Wyoming as Texas lost 5 yards in its first three plays.
“We gotta get back to being a team that starts fast, that starts well,” Sarkisian said. “That’s something that was a trademark of ours for a couple years.”
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