Texas Football: 3 takeaways from excruciating 3-point loss to Iowa St

2) Texas football takeaways from Iowa St loss

It wasn’t turnovers and special teams that lost this game

A common theme in past weeks for the Longhorns this season was the fact that special teams and turnovers cost them in the end. Ehlinger at times had bad interceptions, or other skill position players could fumble the ball away. There were also rampant problems in certain games on special teams early in the season, namely in the close overtime win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Dicker himself is assuming a lot of the duties on the special teams unit at this point of the regular season. He took over the punting duties after the news dropped that junior punter Ryan Bujcevski was to miss the rest of the season with a lower-body injury. Dicker didn’t do too bad in his first game of his career to date taking on the punting duties.

There were two punts that Dicker had in this game, for a combined 81 yards (40.5 yards per punt). He also had one punt pinning the Clones inside their own 20-yard line.

Dicker was also pretty good in the kicking game. He did miss that 57-yard field goal attempt at the end of the game, but you can’t blame him for that all the time. That’s not a realistic kick to expect him to make on a consistent basis. Dicker did make his other two field goal attempts in this game, including a long of 42 yards.

As it pertains to the other phases of the game, the Texas defense looked pretty good most of the way. And Ehlinger didn’t have a single turnover on the day. Texas did have on fumble lost here. But you tell me that the Longhorns have less than 60 penalty yards and just on turnover in a game, I would think they could easily get the win.