Texas' Quinn Ewers and Jake Majors earn SEC weekly honors after Michigan win
Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers and center Jake Majors were big in No. 2 Texas’ 31-12 win over Michigan on Saturday. Today, the Southeastern Conference rewarded them for their effort.
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Ewers, who earned Offensive Player of the Week honors, was simply fantastic, completing 24-of-36 passes for 246 yards and three touchdowns. It was Texas’ second consecutive top-10 road win, following their triumph over No. 3 Alabama last season. Ewers has won eight straight true road games since 2022, throwing 15 touchdowns with just one interception. Notably, three of these wins were against top-15 opponents, where he completed 63% of his passes for 792 yards and eight touchdowns with no interceptions.
Against Michigan, Ewers guided the Longhorns to scoring on all five first-half possessions—three touchdowns and a field goal—with the only miss being a field goal attempt after a penalty nullified a touchdown. He led Texas to 8-of-10 third-down conversions in the first half, going 6-of-7 passing with a touchdown and rushing for another on a 3rd-and-7. Ewers has thrown at least one touchdown pass in each of his last 15 starts, dating back to 2022. The win snapped Michigan’s notable win streaks, including 16 overall victories, a Big Ten-record 29 regular-season wins, and 23 home wins. Texas’ 19-point win was its largest margin of victory against a top-10 team on the road since 1979 and the biggest against a top-10 team overall since 2005.
Majors was named Co-Offensive Lineman Player of the Week after being Texas’ highest-graded offensive lineman in their 31-12 road victory over Michigan. Majors faced two of the best defensive tackles in college football, All-American Mason Graham and All-Big 10 honoree Kenneth Grant, and did not allow a sack, while the pair managed only four tackles and no quarterback pressures. Majors was instrumental in Texas rushing for 143 yards (4.5 yards per carry) against a Michigan defense that ranked fifth nationally in rush defense last season, allowing only 90.0 yards per game. Under his leadership, the Texas offense accumulated 389 total yards and 31 points.
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The victory snapped several Michigan win streaks, including 16 overall victories, a Big Ten-record 29 regular-season wins, and 23 home wins. Texas’ 19-point win was its largest road margin against a top-10 team since 1979 and the biggest against any top-10 team overall since 2005.
