4 takeaways as Texas's rally falls short of No. 5 Georgia

Money downs cost Texas

One of the major factors that ultimately doomed the Longhorns in this game against Georgia was their ineffectiveness on money downs. Texas left plenty of meat on the bone regarding their opportunities to keep drives alive and potentially get points up on the board at critical moments before the game really starting getting away from them in the first half.

While Texas did get its only third and fourth down conversions of the game in the second half, the offense still wasn't much better in the final 30 minutes.

It wasn't just Texas's offense that missed opportunities with a lack of third and fourth-down conversions at key points of this game, the defense also allowed the chains to move for the Georgia offense late in the second half. I will say, though, that Texas's defense was much more effective at holding Georgia's offense on money downs than the offense was at converting on third and fourth down.

Georgia converted on 6-of-17 third downs and also scored a touchdown on its only fourth-down conversion to pull ahead by two possessions in the fourth quarter.

Texas, meanwhile, was under 10 percent converting on third down and struggled more than any other game this season on fourth down. The Georgia defense was very well-prepared from the outset of the first quarter of play.

The Longhorns inability to come up with crucial conversions when it mattered most really cost them in this game.

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