Is the perfect storm for Arch Manning to flip from Texas brewing?

Arch Manning could be a lock to stay committed to Texas, but surging programs like Georgia, and now Tennessee, may have what it takes to pick the lock to land the five-star quarterback.

Although flipping Arch Manning from Texas at this point seems like essentially an impossibility, what if I told you an SEC East storm was brewing, one involving Georgia, and now Tennessee?

Manning committed to Texas on June 23 over the likes of Alabama and Georgia. While it essentially became a two-team race after Eli Holstein committed to the Crimson Tide, so much has changed over the first half of the 2022 college football season. Quinn Ewers is thriving in Austin, Georgia looks every bit of a national title contender and Uncle Peyton’s Vols are back!

Admittedly, it is going to take a series of unfortunate events for Manning to flip from Texas, but let’s discuss the highly improbable possibility that it could happen.

Arch Manning recruitment: Could QB flip from Texas to Georgia or Tennessee?

Look. Even if Ewers continues to ball out in Austin, Manning will stay committed to Texas. The Mannings would prefer he redshirt his first year at school wherever he goes. This would create a two-year gap between him and Ewers in the Longhorns quarterback room. In an ideal situation, Ewers will have put enough good film out there to merit being a first-round pick after next season.

With Texas being 5-2 on the year and the No. 20 team in the country, the Longhorns would need to lose out to not go bowling, something they were unable to achieve a year ago. For Manning to bail on Texas, more unnecessary monkey business would have to envelop the program. After how things turned out for the Longhorns at Red River, #AllGasNoBrakes will not be running out of gas.

Even if things go southward in the home of South by Southwest, there are two reasons why it will be challenging for either Georgia or now Tennessee to flip Manning, regardless of them being elite teams on the field: Nico Iamaleava and now Ryan Puglisi. Iamaleava is the No. 3 prospect in the same recruiting cycle at Manning. While UGA does not have a guy in 2023, Puglisi is that in 2024.

Although the opportunity to start right away at places like Georgia and Tennessee could be appealing with this being the last year of Stetson Bennett IV in Athens and Hendon Hooker in Knoxville, Carson Beck and Brock Vandagriff will be ready for the challenge next year at Georgia and Iamaleava has a real shot at being the Week 1 starter next year after enrolling early at UTK.

Ultimately, we are going to need quite literally a perfect college football storm to rip Manning out of Austin and send him to either Athens or Knoxville. Not to say it is an impossibility, but Lloyd Christmas did technically have a chance with Mary

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Swanson. One in a million seems like a long shot, but you never know when and where lighting is going to strike. Let the sparks fly!

The best shot Georgia or Tennessee have at flipping Manning is for them to win all of their games.

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