Arch Manning is in line to become the starting quarterback at Texas in 2025, after two years behind the NFL-bound Quinn Ewers. Manning impressed in limited time under center this fall, but the pressure will ramp up dramatically as he takes over an offense for a program with national title aspirations.

Although fans seemingly have grown tired of all of the player movement, an overwhelming amount wanted Manning to transfer before the 2024 season. He chose to stick it out, which his father, Cooper Manning, revealed on the "Dan Patrick Show" ahead of Super Bowl LIX, felt was a necessary lesson.

Texas has high expectations going into the 2025 college football season. The program has gotten to the semifinals of the College Football Playoff two seasons in a row but still hasn't gotten the chance to play in a National Championship Game.

The Manning family is known as a factory for great football talents and minds, especially at the quarterback spot, but it takes time for them to rise into stardom. Arch Manning may be getting all these NIL deals and fame but his father posits that the real challenge has yet to come.

Sure, it's February and fall football feels as if it's a long, long way away. But it's not. Here are some burning questions about Texas football.

Manning understands the level of attention and scrutiny that comes with his family’s last name, but says he hasn’t done enough to earn his current stardom.

Incoming redshirt sophomore quarterback Arch Manning is undoubtedly faster than both of his uncles—Peyton and Eli. At the end of the 2024 college football season, he scored a momentum-changing rushing touchdown in Texas’ renewed football rivalry versus Texas A&M.