No. 1 Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian open SEC play next weekend at home against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Texas went through non-conference play unscathed, cruising to four convincing double-digit wins during the month of September thus far.
Non-conference play concluded for Sarkisian and the Longhorns this weekend, with a dominant 51-3 win over the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks at home on Sep. 21. Texas defeated ULM on Saturday night at DKR behind the first start of redshirt freshman quarterback Arch Manning’s college career.
The Longhorns enter conference play as the No. 1 ranked team in the AP Poll for the first time since 1981, when Texas was part of the Southwest Conference…