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Arch Manning rallies Texas as Missouri's overturned catches draw scrutiny

ESPN College Football's highlights drew more than 600,000 views in seven hours, with replay decisions becoming a major talking point.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,450,916 views a day, 70 times a normal first day on this channel (20,710).

Texas Longhorns vs. Missouri Tigers | Full Game Highlights | ESPN College Football

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2:54Austin Simmons finds Brett Norfleet for Missouri's opening touchdown.
5:51An apparent Missouri touchdown is overturned on review, and the Tigers settle for a field goal.
10:55Cayden Lee's diving catch is overturned, prompting Eli Drinkwitz to question the referee.
13:17Naeshaun Montgomery breaks free for a long touchdown reception.
16:04Manning finds Jermaine Bishop Jr. as Texas answers Missouri's touchdown.
18:23The fourth-quarter touchdown that changes the lead comes here.

A fourth-quarter throw to Raleek Brown finally gave the Longhorns their first lead in Columbia. Texas went on to beat Missouri 34-20, keeping its College Football Playoff hopes alive, but the route there was considerably less comfortable than that final margin suggests.

ESPN College Football's highlights had more than 600,000 views in seven hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for regular uploads. The comments were unusually busy too, with much of the discussion focused on what counted as a catch.

Missouri twice saw apparent completions overturned. An early touchdown pass to Naeshaun Montgomery became an incompletion after review, leaving the Tigers to settle for a field goal. Later, Cayden Lee's diving catch was overturned because he had not maintained possession through the ground. Viewers repeatedly question that second decision, while others debate a fumble ruling.

Eli Drinkwitz supplies the thread connecting those moments. "We're playing to win. We just got to get some of these reviews to go our way," the Missouri coach says during the broadcast.

There is plenty of football between the reviews. Montgomery breaks away for a long touchdown reception, before Manning finds Jermaine Bishop Jr. for the tying score and then Brown in the back corner of the end zone to put Texas ahead.

The Texas-Missouri upload was not ESPN's only fast-starting game package: Utah's win over BYU and Arizona's narrow victory over TCU also drew unusually large audiences. Alongside the TCU highlights, a separate Short isolates a dropped kickoff that put Arizona in field-goal range.

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What viewers say

I remember our coach used to hammer us that if that ball is on the field you pick it up he didn’t care if the play was called dead an hour ago the ball doesn’t sit on the field without us getting on it or you are running.
@JakeMurray-b3eSee it on YouTube
Raleek did his thing
@joemama-j6rSee it on YouTube
Longhorns need to do a better job of ball security.... They looked a little sloppy on offense
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That diving catch was a completion.
@lightsout6552See it on YouTube
I'm a UT fan and that diving catch was a catch
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The big hit to cause the interception and seal the win was epic.
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That hit at the end is pure football
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The facts

Channel: ESPN College Football
Subscribers: 1,430,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 21,704,622
Channel views, pace per day: 3,151,354 (on a normal day: 3,114,363)
Video published: November 7, 2026
Video views so far: 603,144 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 1,450,916

The numbers

Texas-Missouri passed ESPN College Football's usual full-day views within its opening seven hours. The comment section was also much busier than a typical regular upload.

the video's first day

usual first day here

20,710

this video

1,450,916

subscribers

1,430,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,685,652,209

views per day

3,151,354