No. 5 Texas gets past No. 25 Vanderbilt 27-24

No. 5 Texas avoided a second straight loss with a 27-24 win at No. 25 Vanderbilt.

The Longhorns took a 10-point lead right after the 2-minute warning on a short field goal by Bert Auburn. Vanderbilt scored a TD with 46 seconds left to pull within three, but the onside kick didn’t trouble the Longhorns and Texas ended the game with two kneel downs.

Texas QB Quinn Ewers starred in the first half as he was 19-of-21 passing and threw three TDs. Two of those came to DeAndre Moore Jr. and both were over 20 yards.

Ewers finished the game 27-of-37 passing for 288 yards and three scores, though he threw two interceptions on tipped passes.

“I thought he showed great composure and I really thought he played well,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian Sid after the game on SEC Network. “Sometimes you can’t control getting tipped in the air in the right place at the right time for them. At the end of the day I thought he played really well. He was efficient, got the ball to our playmakers when we needed it.”