{"id":139501,"date":"2022-11-26T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/in-perhaps-his-final-home-game-bijan-robinson-texas-to-38-27-win-over-baylor-carries\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:40:00","slug":"in-perhaps-his-final-home-game-bijan-robinson-texas-to-38-27-win-over-baylor-carries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/in-perhaps-his-final-home-game-bijan-robinson-texas-to-38-27-win-over-baylor-carries\/","title":{"rendered":"In perhaps his final home game, Bijan Robinson Texas to 38-27 win over Baylor carries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AUSTIN, Texas \u2014<\/strong> Of <\/b>perhaps his final home game as a Texas Longhorn, Bijan Robinson<\/b> dominated the fourth quarter with 115 of his 179 yards rushing, drawing chants from the Texas crowd of “Bijan! Bijan! Bijan!” in the final minute of a 38-27 victory over Baylor on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After Texas’ offense flopped around like a fish on a boat deck for much of the afternoon, including a strip-sack of quarterback Quinn Ewers<\/b> that resulted in a 16-yard scoop-and-score by Baylor that gave the Bears a 27-24 lead with 13:30 left to play, Texas ran the ball 25 straight times, with 17 of those going to Robinson, including a 1-yard touchdown run with 8:25 left that put Texas up for good, 31-27.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robinson, a junior who will likely declare for the NFL Draft after this season, finished the game with 29 carries for 179 yards (6.2 ypc) and two touchdowns, giving him 54 carries for 422 yards and six touchdowns the last two games when you factor in Robinson’s 25 carries for 243 yards and four touchdowns last week in a 55-14 win at Kansas. <\/span><\/p>\n

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“I just realized that we need to run the ball on them to win this game, and we needed to keep going downhill on them because if they get tired and get out of their gaps, then we’ll start doing everything the right way for the offense,” said Robinson, who moved past Jamaal Charles (3,328 yards) to No. 4 on UT’s all-time rushing list with 3,410 yards, behind only Ricky Williams (6,279), Cedric Benson (5,540) and Earl Campbell (4,443). Williams, Benson and Campbell all played four years. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Now, Robinson and the Longhorns have to wait and see if Kansas can knock off Kansas State on Saturday night, which would send Texas to the Big 12 title game on Dec. 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Robinson was asked for a timeline on his decision on whether to turn pro, and he said, “Hopefully, Kansas wins (against Kansas State) tomorrow. I’m trying to have an opportunity to play for a Big 12 championship.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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After a comedy of errors on offense, including an intentional grounding call on Ewers in the end zone in the first quarter, resulting in a safety as well as the strip-sack and Baylor scoop-and-score, Texas ran 26 plays in the fourth quarter with 25 of them runs: 17 carries by Robinson for 115 yards and seven carries by Roschon Johnson<\/b><\/b> for 33 yards and a spectacular, 11-yard TD run in which Johnson hurdled a Baylor defender at the 3 before getting into the end zone for UT’s final score of the game.<\/p>\n

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Johnson-time decision with an injury with injury last week at Kansas and finished 13 carries for 77 yards (5.9) and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

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After running it 25 straight times to end the game, Steve Sarkisian was asked if he no longer felt comfortable throwing the football with Ewers, who finished 12-of-16 passing for 194 yards but was sacked five times.<\/p>\n

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“No, it was more about what we were doing good,” Sarkisian said. “You know, I’m mad at myself for the one sack-fumble we got. You know, it’s like there were things I thought we could do down the field. But we just didn’t protect great today. So, as good as we were in one aspect of the game, we were not great in the other. And then it was, ‘OK, let’s go do what we need to do.’<\/span><\/p>\n

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“If you guys noticed there was very minimal motion going on. We literally just lined up. For whatever reason, we were a little jittery at the line of scrimmage today. We like to motion and do different things to create advantageous looks, but it wasn’t an advantage for us today. We were jumping offsides. We were just antsy. So it was like, OK, let’s line up in a formation we’re comfortable in, and let’s go run plays that we literally installed on day one of training camp, and, ultimately, we operated them the best tonight.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robinson said of Sarkisian: “I just appreciate Coach Sark for trusting it (the run) and not going away from it and understanding that what works is going to work, and when you go away from something, then that’s when some things get screwed up . So I just appreciate him for sticking with it and letting us have an opportunity to get loose.”<\/span><\/p>\n


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The Texas defense suffered game in some busted coverages, including a 47-yard touchdown pass that gave Baylor a 9-0 lead in the first quarter. But the Texas defense completely shut down Baylor’s offense in the second half. Longhorns’ star junior linebacker Jaylan Ford<\/b><\/b> grabbed his team-leading fourth interception of the season and returned it 18 yards to the Baylor 42 with 6:28 left. That just gave Robinson and Johnson more opportunity to help put the game away. The Texas offense was able to convert that interception into Johnson’s 11-yard touchdown run that put Texas up 38-27 with 3:48 left.<\/p>\n

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Texas held Baylor to 56 yards in the second half, led by DeMarvion Overshown<\/b>who had 14 tackles, two tackles for loss and two pass breakups as well as Jaylan Ford<\/b>who had 13 tackles, two tackles for loss, one pass breakup and one quarterback hurry in addition to his huge interception (fourth of the season).<\/p>\n

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Texas had three sacks by Overshow, Jahdae Barron<\/b> and Alfred Collins<\/b>.<\/p>\n


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