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KNOXVILLE, TN – Texas is the No. 1 team in college football? You've got to be kidding me.
\n\nSeriously, I find it hard to believe after watching this 3½-hour sack-fest.
\n\nIf that’s the best team in the nation, then every challenger from Georgia to Mississippi to Miami to Notre Dame must be licking their chops for a chance to play Texas.
\n\nTexas looks glitchy. Shaky. Beatable. Just because No. 13 Tennessee couldn’t pull it off, don’t think that means a loss (or, more than one) isn’t coming.
\n\nWill Muschamp’s defense refused to let No. 1 Texas lose to a quarterback making his first career SEC start.
\n\nSteve Sarkisian’s offense kept giving way to the punter.
\n\nTexas survived, 20-17, in a game it tried to give away.
\n\nThe Longhorns won despite six three-and-outs, seven punts, and one 15-yard penalty after a star player pretended to urinate on the field.
\n\nTennessee was inside Texas territory after recovering an onside kick with a chance to win the game, before the Longhorns sacked Faizon Brandon for a 10th time to prevent a white-knuckle game from becoming a shocking collapse.
\n\n"All respect to our skill guys, but games like this are won in the trenches,"…
Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/
