Texas this season was a stranger on the road in the Southeastern Conference — an eyebrow-raising outsider to the nation’s most powerful football league. “Away games are a little harder for sure,” UT quarterback Quinn Ewers said Monday with a slight grin of comparing life in the SEC to the Longhorns’ recent life in the Big 12.

Kickoff between the Texas Longhorns and Arizona State Sun Devils in the CFP quarterfinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl is just under 48 hours away, yet the trash talk has already begun to heat up. Recently,

Leavitt may not be trying to stoke that fire with his comments but it certainly can be interpreted as prime bulletin board material for Ewers and Co. in the Texas locker room. In

Joel Klatt previewed the Texas Longhorns vs. Arizona State Sun Devils. He examined how Texas’s run game dominated Clemson in the first round of the CFP. Joel analyzed if Arizona State could stop Texas’s offense like Georgia could.

If there’s one word that might define Quinn Ewers in his three years at Texas it might be ‘maturity’. Ewers arrived in Austin from Columbus with his, at the time, trademark mullet and scruffy beard. There was also a hint of ‘extra’ weight not conducive to athletic pursuits.

The starting quarterback reflected on his opportunity to continue playing football while others have already finished out their season.