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发布时间：2025-09-11 14:45:23 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：娱乐

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Deep within Ohio Stadium, where they were temporarily shielded from a raucous crowd of more than 107,000 fans still delirious with post-national championship delight, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian and his polarizing quarterback, Arch Manning, sat in the visitor’s locker room studying film. 

It was halftime of college football’s most anticipated season opener in ages, a game that pitted the top-ranked Longhorns against third-ranked Ohio State in a rematch of last year’s College Football Playoff semifinal, and the two leading figures in the burnt orange brain trust were in disarray. 

Manning, making the first road start of his highly scrutinized career, had labored through the opening few possessions against the freshly unveiled defense of coordinator Matt Patricia, the former head coach of the Detroit Lions and noteworthy disciple of Bill Belichick after more than a decade with the New England Patriots. Patricia had employed certain wrinkles, Sarkisian would later explain, that confounded Manning in his attempts to diagnose what he was seeing after each snap. The statistics seemed to bear that out: By halftime, Manning only connected on five of his first 10 passes for 26 yards — with the 50% completion rate reflecting his repeated bouts with indecision. 

So inside the Texas locker room, coach and quarterback spent a good chunk of their allotted break analyzing clips of what Patricia had thrown at them, from the pinwheel-like rotations on the back end to the locational deployment of certain personnel for a unit replacing eight starters. They went so far as reconfiguring the way Manning would identify certain schemes for the remainder of the game. 

"I thought their ability to disguise coverages in the first half was at an elite level," Sarkisian said in his postgame news conference. "I wouldn’t say a goodlevel — an elite level. And I think it starts with [the fact that] they’ve got Caleb Downs."



Safety Caleb Downs #2 of Ohio State celebrates a play with Linebacker C.J. Hicks #11 during the third quarter against Texas. (Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images)

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