CASEY THOMPSON

Oklahoma visited Lincoln, Nebraska, for the first time since 2009 and dominated the Cornhuskers, beating Nebraska 49-14 to move to 3-0 for the season.

Nebraska interim head coach Mickey Joseph said things will be a little different with him leading the team, days after the Cornhuskers parted ways with Scott Frost.

Ryan Hilinski threw for 314 yards and two touchdowns to help Northwestern rally for a 31-28 victory over Nebraska in Saturday’s season opener in Ireland.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian says freshman Quinn Ewers was named the Longhorns' starting quarterback because he’s a talent who can “make all the throws.”.

Prep quarterback Arch Manning has tweeted that he plans to play at Texas.

The biggest position battle in the Big 12 is Texas quarterback.

Nebraska has not officially named its starting quarterback but all indications point to it being Texas transfer Casey Thompson.

Casey Thompson, who started 10 games and passed for 24 touchdowns for Texas last season, opened Nebraska's spring practice Monday as its No. 1 quarterback. “I think he's the best one right now,” new offensive coordinator Mark Whipple said. Among the Cornhuskers' priorities is sorting out the quarterback situation following Adrian Martinez's transfer to Kansas State.

Texas hosts Kansas State on Friday.

Suddenly, Texas has just a week left in a stunningly bad season under first-year coach Steve Sarkisian. West Virginia will get one more chance to avoid joining the Longhorns in ending the year in late November. Jared Doege threw three touchdown passes and Leddie Brown rushed for 158 yards and a score to lead West Virginia to a 31-23 victory over Texas on Saturday, handing the Longhorns their sixth straight loss and eliminating them from bowl consideration.

Jalon Daniel hit Jared Casey on a scrambling pass for a 2-point conversion in overtime and Kansas stunned Texas 57-56 Saturday night to snap their eight-game losing streak this season and a 56-game losing streak in Big 12 road games over the past 13 years.

Ben Sims and Abram Smith had TD runs in the fourth quarter and No. 16 Baylor beat Texas 31-24.

Second-year Baylor coach Dave Aranda has the No. 16 Bears fighting for the top of the Big 12 standings.

Kennedy Brooks ran for 217 yards and two go-ahead touchdowns in the fourth quarter as sixth-ranked Oklahoma beat No. 21 Texas 55-48.

This is how the second Saturday of October is supposed to be for sixth-ranked Oklahoma and No. 21 Texas.

Bijan Robinson spent far too much of last season watching others play football.

Bijan Robinson ran for a career-high 216 yards with two go-ahead touchdowns and Texas beat TCU 32-27.

The Texas Longhorns got run over by a future SEC foe in their only other road game this season.

Casey Thompson threw five touchdowns and ran for another as Texas continued its offensive explosion since naming him the starting quarterback with a 70-35 rout of Texas Tech on Saturday.

A roundup of major college football games from Texas and the Big 12.

Bijan Robinson ran for three touchdowns in the first half and Texas rebounded from a humiliating loss a week earlier by pounding Rice 58-0.

Texas turned to a punishing run game to wipe out any lingering bad taste of a bad loss. Bijan Robinson ran for three touchdowns in the first half and the Longhorns rolled up 427 yards on the ground in pounding Rice 58-0 Saturday night, a week after a loss a humiliating loss at Arkansas knocked the Longhorns out of the Top 25. Texas quarterback Casey Thompson got his first career start, but it was the smashing running game behind Robinson and Roschon Johnson that had the game quickly out of hand.

Two games into the season and Texas is making a quarterback change this week against Rice.

Arkansas piled up 333 rushing yards and got touchdowns from four different players on the ground in a 40-21 win over No. 15 Texas.

Bijan Robinson scored twice and Hudson Card threw two touchdown passes in his first career start, leading No. 21 Texas to a 38-18 victory over No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday in coach Steve Sarkisian’s Longhorns debut.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian has picked Hudson Card as his No. 1 quarterback for the season-opener against No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette.

The Associated Press preseason college football poll has been released and Alabama is No. 1.

Steve Sarkisian has yet to make his debut in the Big 12, but the new Texas coach was asked on Thursday to ponder life in his next league, the Southeastern Conference.

Casey Thompson's Alamo Bowl performance made him look like an easy pick to be starting quarterback at Texas in 2021.

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)SAN ANTONIO – Texas has been tested all year, but losing senior quarterback Sam Ehlinger to a shoulder injury was an obstacle the Longhorns never anticipated. 20 Texas overcame Ehlinger’s injury to beat Colorado 55-23 in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Tuesday night. Ehlinger missed the second half after sustaining a shoulder injury in the second quarter. Thompson started the second half in place of Ehlinger and led Texas to a touchdown on its opening possession. Texas: The Longhorns found a capable replacement for Ehlinger in Thompson.