Arch Manning and the No. 21 Texas Longhorns narrowly escaped with a 16-13 overtime road win over Kentucky on Saturday, capped by a game-winning field goal.

Giving each position group a letter grade for the Texas Longhorns after their game against the Kentucky Wildcats.

For the first time ever, the No. 21 Texas Longhorns are in Lexington playing the Kentucky Wildcats trying to keep the team’s College Football Playoff hopes alive in a tough environment against a team that has lost three straight SEC games to open the season.

The Texas Longhorns beat the Kentucky Wildcats 16-13 in overtime during a college football SEC game at Kroger Field in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025.

The Kentucky Wildcats faced the Texas Longhorns in a Week 8 college football game. Here's the UK football score and highlights from the SEC game.

First off, you know it's bad when members of the Charlie Strong teams are talking. But at least the 2016 Texas team had running back D'Onta Foreman with over 2,000 yards rushing and quarterback Shane Buechele with nearly 3,000 yards passing in a 5-7 season.

Texas looked hapless on offense until the very end, nearly blowing a sure thing in overtime after needing just a field goal to win the game in the extra period. The passing game was out of sync, and the run game was something even worse than failure-to-launch.

Kentucky football couldn't upset Texas in an SEC clash in Lexington. Here's what we learned from UK's three-point overtime loss Saturday.