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Texas Football By The Numbers, Week 3

0 -- Second half points allowed by the Texas defense through two games.

14 -- Minutes longer than Texas the Miners had possession of the ball.

2 -- Weeks in a row Texas' opponent has converted just 2 of 4 trips to the red zone into points.

12 -- Scores in 13 trips to the red zone for Texas.

0 -- Fumbles by Texas this season.

14 -- Team high number of tackles by Roddrick Muckelroy Satuday against UTEP.

7 -- Tackles by Texas' second leading tackler, Blake Gideon.

19 -- Official Quarterback Hurries applied by Texas' defense.

2 -- Number of same by UTEP.

4 -- Number of times in the last three years the Longhorns have drawn an opponent's largest-ever home crowd: UTEP 53,415 (2008),  Texas A&M 88,253 (2007),  Nebraska, 85,187 (2006),  Texas Tech 56,158 (2006).

9 -- Consecutive non-conference road wins for Texas, a school record (UTEP '08, UCF '07, Rice '06, Ohio State '05, Arkansas '04, Rice '03, UNC '02, Tulane '02, Houston '01)

2 -- Punts partially blocked by freshman DB Aaron Williams at UTEP Saturday.

50 -- Blocked punts kicks by Texas since 2000, tops in the nation.

8 -- Receptions by Quan Cosby at UTEP.

131 -- Career receptions by Cosby after Saturday, moving him to fifth all time at Texas, ahead of Limas Sweed (124) and Eric Metcalf (125).

17.1 -- Yards per reception by Cosby in '08, up from 11.3 in 2006.

185.2 -- Quarterback Rating of Colt McCoy after two games.

4 -- Big 12 quarterbacks with an even higher QB Rating than McCoy (Freeman, KSU 209.3,  Bradford, OU 189.4,  Arnaud, ISU, 187.6, Griffin, BU 187.1)

82 -- Wins for Texas under Mack Brown, against 2 losses, when accumulating 400 or more yards of total offense.

0 -- Turnovers forced by the Arkansas defense in 2008.

3 -- Turnovers lost by the Razorbacks' offense.

2.5 -- Average Arkansas margin of victory in two games over W. Illinois and LA-Monroe.

7.14 -- Yards per rush for Arkansas' junior tailback Michael Smith.

37.5 -- Pass attempts per game in 2008 for Arkansas quarterback Casey Dick, up from 20.2 per game in 2007.