Texas wins the college recruiting lottery by getting Arch Manning to commit to the Longhorns.
Arch Manning comes from a football family. Archie’s grandfather was a renowned QB for Ole’ Miss and then the New Orleans Saints. His uncles Peyton and Eli played in the NFL, and they both have Super Bowl rings, Eli with the New York Giants and Peyton with the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos. Now, the next generation brings us Arch Manning, son of Cooper Manning, who is Arch’s son and brother to Eli and Peyton.
Cooper was a Lousiana high school star who went on to play receiver for Ole’ Miss. Spinal stenosis cut short a very promising career, and now his son has an opportunity to do what he physically could not. Grandpa Arch Manning says his grandson “Could be the best of all of them!”
Arch Manning is the star quarterback of Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans. He threw for 5,731 yards and 72 touchdowns in his first three years of high school football.
Many thought Arch would follow his grandfather, dad, and Uncle Eli and enroll at Ole Miss. In the end, though, four schools made Arch’s shortlist and Mississippi wasn’t one of them. Finalists Georgia, LSU, Alabama, and Texas were in contention to get the biggest prize of the recruiting year. Then, Manning’s close friend and teammate, three-star tight end Will Randle, committed to Texas. That may have been the deciding factor.
ESPN has Arch as the #1 prospect in the 2023 class, but that headline doesn’t seem to phase him much. Arch remains pretty low-key. He is not public on Instagram or into press/photo shoots.
Manning’s signing is a big boost for the Longhorns, a team that has not been able to regain its national championship mojo since winning the title in 2005. Manning’s signing could bolster a recruiting class ranked #17 currently by Rivals.com.
Now in the Big 12, the Longhorns will shift to the SEC in 2025, which means Arch will be playing against some of the best players in the nation. But there’s plenty of football–and keen competition, too–between now and then.
Congrats, UT, for nabbing the player everybody wanted.
