Texas Football: Game-by-game predictions for the Longhorns in 2019
Week 9
Opponent: Kansas State Wildcats
Date: Nov. 9
Location: DKR
Texas football returns to the place where Herman won one of the biggest games of his first season on campus. The Kansas State Wildcats were still a season-and-a-half away from losing legendary head coach Bill Snyder to retirement when Herman and the Longhorns beat them in Austin in 2017.
However, Kansas State is fighting for bowl eligibility in the first-year under former North Dakoka State Bisons head coach Chris Klieman. Redshirt junior quarterback Skylar Thompson gets the starting reigns for the Kansas State offense and does fairly well under Klieman’s direction. Thompson has 20 total touchdowns heading into this showdown with the Longhorns.
Ehlinger and Thompson go back and forth in the first half, with two total touchdowns going each way. But it’s the 375 total yards from Ehlinger that allows the Texas offense to pull ahead when it matters most. Kansas State took a 17-14 lead into halftime, but Ehlinger expands the offense in the third quarter.
Texas gets on a 17-0 run in the third quarter and doesn’t look back. Ehlinger finishes the game with 375 total yards and four scores. Ingram racks up a career-best 200 total yards from scrimmage to really spark the ground game. The Kansas State defense has little to no answer for the explosive Longhorns offense in the second half.