Texas outlasts Kentucky in OT despite sub-par night from Arch Manning

LEXINGTON, Ky.— Mason Shipley kicked a 45-yard field goal in overtime and No.

21 Texas beat Kentucky 16-13 on Saturday night, despite a sub-par outing from Arch Manning and the Longhorns defense.“Once a year, you have a culture win, where the game’s not pretty, but because the team is so close, finds a way to win the game,” Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said.“These guys found a way to win when the game was sliding in the wrong direction.”Texas quarterback Arch Manning threw for 132 yards, while running back Quintrevion Wisner ran for Texas’ lone touchdown in the second quarter.Sarkisian, who reiterated that he is not considering making a quarterback change, said Manning had his moments, but was inconsistent and wasn’t helped by his offensive line at times. “We need to play better up front to protect him.

It’s not fun when you’re at quarterback and you’re getting hit.It was way too leaky for him, and in turn that can create some uneasiness when you have opportunities to make throws and you don’t,” Sarkisian said.

“I do think there was a couple of critical passes that he didn’t make.The third down conversion to DeAndre Moore was a huge play for us, that play to DeAndre that we hit out of the backdoor.

But we’ve got to find ways to get him more completions.“That’s our job as a staff to find that comfort level for him because there were some really good plays in there.That ball to Emmett (Mosley) across the middle for an explosive.

There are good things there, but there are some layups that we’ve got to hit for him too, that he needs to hit, but we need to find more of those opportunities.”As for Shipley, he also kicked a 39-yard field goal with a minute remaining to give the Longhorns (5-2, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) a 13-10 lead.Kentucky (2-4, 0-4) tied the score at 13-all on Jacob Kauwe’s 45-yard field goal with 9 seconds remaining to send the game into overtime.The Longhorns managed just 179 total yards, but use...