Texas’ Quinn Ewers threw for 288 yards and three touchdowns and the defense held Vanderbilt to 269 total yards, as the No. 5 Longhorns knocked off the 25th-ranked Commodores 27-24, in Southeastern Conference play at Nashville on Saturday. The Longhorns entered the day ranked No. 1 in scoring defense (9.7 points per game) and total defense (237.3 yards per game) and it showed as Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia had a season-worst day (16-of-29, 143 yards, two touchdowns, two interceptions). Vanderbilt, which had turned it over just twice all season, coughed it up three times on Saturday. Wide receiver DeAndre Moore Jr. caught two first-half touchdowns for Texas (7-1, 3-1 SEC), which never trailed after the first quarter. Texas’s Bert Auburn hit a 40-yard field goal to extend the Longhorns’ lead to 24-10 with 8:54 left in the third quarter. Vanderbilt (5-3, 2-2) then went three-and-out for the fourth time in its first eight drives but Randon Fontenette tipped a Ewers pass and Miles Capers…..