4 takeaways from Texas's messy win over Vanderbilt

Penalties and other miscues continue to limit Texas's ceiling on offense

For the second time this season, the Longhorns had over 50 penalty yards on offense, which ultimately cost Texas on multiple potential scoring drives that resulted in punts or a turnover on downs.

While the Longhorns have had some bad weeks penalty-wise this season, this game against Vanderbilt was especially concerning for Sarkisian's squad. For the first time this season, the Longhorns had double-digit penalties for over 100 penalty yards. And the net result of those penalties was well over 150 yards lost for Texas, affecting both sides of the ball late against Vandy.

There were a bunch of penalties called against Longhorns players who haven't had issues with flags thus far for Texas. Sophomore cornerback Malik Muhammad was flagged for defensive pass interference for the first time in his collegiate career on a key second-half money down.

And for the first time in his career, junior offensive tackle Kelvin Banks Jr. had multiple holding flags called against him.

The costliest penalty against the Longhorns in this game came late in the fourth quarter, on what could've been a possible game-sealing pick-six by freshman defensive back Kobe Black. Texas's first-year corner had a pick-six called back on a roughing the passer flag on senior defensive tackle Vernon Broughton with a little over one minute to go in the fourth quarter.

Had that pick-six by Black not been called back by the roughing the passer penalty, the Longhorns would've taken a commanding 34-17 lead over Vanderbilt which would've effectively sealed the victory.

Had it not been for Texas shooting itself in the foot multiple times late in this game, the contest would've been over much sooner than it was in the fourth quarter.

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