And he is ready to take over the Texas offense in 2025. "I wanted to be the quarterback at the University of Texas," quarterback Arch Manning told reporters Thursday when discussing why he didn't transfer when he was behind Quinn Ewers on the depth chart. "Sometimes things are worth the wait."

Ewers is now headed to try his luck in the NFL, and Manning will be the de facto leader of Steve Sarkisian's Texas Longhorns.

Arguably the biggest quarterback controversy of the past decade in the eyes of college football fans was the situation that Texas had with Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning last season.