Texas Blows Past Arkansas in 4th Quarter, 49-17

Texas handled a strong wind, Arkansas didn’t and that was a major difference Saturday as the 19th-ranked Longhorns blew away the Razorbacks, 49-17.

Quarterback Peter Gardere guided Texas to four touchdowns, throwing for one score and running for another, to cap two 80-yard drives into a wind that gusted as high as 38 m.p.h.

The victory before 72,657 and a regional television audience raised Texas’ record to 4-1, 2-0 in the Southwest Conference.

Arkansas, which will switch to the Southeastern Conference for the 1992 football season, fell to 2-4 and 0-3 in the SWC.

“We moved the ball pretty well against the wind. That was a turning point,” Texas Coach David McWilliams said.

Leading 20-17 after three quarters, the Longhorns rolled up 29 points with the wind at their backs for their largest point total against Arkansas since they defeated the Razorbacks, 52-0, in 1916.

“A lot of things went wrong and they went wrong late. Our plan was to win the game in the fourth quarter,” said Arkansas Coach Jack Crowe, the first-year coach at Arkansas who has yet to win a conference game.

Adrian Walker’s two-yard scoring run climaxed a 48-yard touchdown march as Texas widened its lead to 27-17 in the fourth quarter, and a four-yard run by freshman Butch Hadnot with 10:20 to go sealed the victory.