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Unforgettable plays from the Texas Longhorns’ 2024 football season

by:RT Young•01/28/25
Jahdae Barron
Jahdae Barron (Will Gallagher/Inside Texas)

College football seasons and memories age over time in two ways. I think they’re either stored in buckets of sentiment or bitterness. After thinking on it for a few weeks, I know how I’ll remember this past season. Though meat was surely left on the bone in the Longhorns’ 2024 campaign, I’ll still think back on it with fondness. Rather than serve as a season that wakes me up in the middle of the night with cold sweats and screams, not Maryland, not Taysom Hill! It’ll be one that I’ll enjoy telling my grandkids about as they bounce on my lap and we watch Arch Manning Jr. win Super Bowls. Here are the plays from each game I’ll never forget.

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Colorado State

Jahdae Barron turns into Willie Mays. Much was made over the summer about Barron’s move to cornerback and his number change to Michael Huff’s No. 7. In the Longhorns’ first game, it was obvious the Jim Thorpe Award was on the Austin native’s mind.

Michigan

Quinn Ewers steps up to find Gunner Helm and the rout is on. The Big House became big and quiet, real quick, thanks to Ewers’ performance in Ann Arbor. His showing against the Wolverine defense will be something NFL proponents of Ewers point to when advocating that the Southlake Carroll native can put it all together in the pros.

UTSA

Arch Manning’s touchdown run. Any thought that the next generation of Manning was a pocket stiff like his uncles was erased when he put UTSA defenders on ice with this touchdown run.

ULM

Anthony Hill’s interception. Alongside Manning and Colin Simmons, Texas will go into next season with three of the five most talented players in college football.

Mississippi State

Manning to DeAndre Moore. Dear God. What a throw, what a catch, what a celebration.

Oklahoma

Silas Bolden’s Johnny-on-the-spot touchdown. I’ve talked and written a bunch about this play already, but Bolden’s winning hustle play was the type of legendary Red River moment that will immortalize him to Longhorn fans forever.

Georgia

Woof. I guess Barron’s second interception, which briefly gave Texas hope, but was almost not a thing thanks to the referees, but the Longhorns benefitted from home field advantage after a bottle-throwing riot was started by the students.

Vanderbilt

Quinn Ewers to Matthew Golden. It wasn’t their best throw and catch of the year, that will come later. But, No. 3 finding No. 2 in front of the pylon was unstoppable all season.

Florida

The stomping of the Gators was Texas’ best performance on offense in SEC play and there are a lot to choose from. But, I’d have to go with Quintrevion Wisner’s rumble for six. Thankfully Smokey the Cannon didn’t cause the sophomore star to go deaf when it went off in his ear.

Arkansas

Quinn keeps it. Ewers seals the game himself on a first-down run.

Kentucky

Anthony Hill drives Cutter Boley north all the way back to Wildcat country. 

Texas A&M

Ethan Burke stuffs the Aggies at the goal line. There were a lot of moments from this game—Manning’s touchdown, Ewers finding Jaydon Blue somehow, and Trey Moore’s strip sack of Marcel Reed—but the stuff is what I’ll remember the longest.

SEC Championship

The what-ifs are what I’ll remember the most and this loss will always hurt. Barron’s should-be pick six is chief among them.

Clemson

Michael Taafe’s PBU. I’m so glad the Westlake native is coming back for 2025.

Arizona State

Ewers to Golden on 4th and 13. One of the best plays in Texas football history.

Ohio State

The Longhorns being unable to convert from the one-yard line will always sting, but I’ll never forget the euphoria I felt from Ewers to Blue, times two.

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What plays did I leave out that you’ll never forget?

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