Texas 34, Wyoming 7
When: 7:00 PM ET, Saturday, September 11, 2010
Where: Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas
Temperature:
94°
Head Official:
Cooper Castleberry
Attendance:
101339
By SportsDirect Inc.
The Texas Longhorns spent most of the first half of Saturday’s game against the Wyoming Cowboys doing their best to not impress the 100,000-plus fans on hand for the Horns’ home opener.
Before the fourth-ranked Longhorns finally subdued the Cowboys from the Mountain West Conference 34-7, they endured some of the same inconsistent play that dogged them in the ugly win over Rice last week.
The Horns (2-0) led 3-0 after the first quarter. But before building a 20-7 halftime, the Horns trailed 7-6 midway through the second quarter.
Texas opened up a comfortable cushion after running back Cody Johnson rumbled in from 2 yards out to make it 27-7 at 12:58 in the third and were never seriously challenged. Johnson added a second rushing TD in the fourth quarter.
Wyoming (1-1) was playing less than a week after freshman linebacker Ruben Narcisse was killed in a crash near the Wyoming-Colorado border that also injured three teammates.
UT quarterback Garrett Gilbert (22-of-35, 222 yards, TD), struggled with the deep ball, but managed the offense without any major mistakes.
Top Game Performances
Receiving
| Wyoming |
|
Texas |
|
Zach Bolger
| Player |
Mike Davis
|
|
2 |
Receptions |
7 |
|
39 |
Yards |
104 |
|
19.5 |
Avg Yards |
14.9 |
|
0 |
Touchdowns |
1 |
|
0 |
Long |
0 |
Team Stats Summary
| |
Yards |
Scoring |
Defense |
| Team |
Tot |
Rus |
Pas |
TD |
FG |
INT |
Sacks |
FF |
| Wyoming
|
257 |
58 |
199 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
0 |
| Texas
|
389 |
167 |
222 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
3.0 |
1 |