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AUSTIN, Texas — Maybe it wasn't as comfortable as some Texas football fans had hoped, but the Longhorns moved to 3-0 with a 30-6 win over UTSA on Saturday night.  Cam Coleman caught a pair of touchdown passes, and running back Derrek Cooper found the end zone, too.  Here's how we graded the win.  (Photo: Getty)   OFFENSE: C- Very few things about the Texas offense on Saturday night passed the eye test.  Playing against what was a bottom-third defense in college football a season ago, the Longhorns rolled early, then labored painfully.  Arch Manning missed open receivers and made questionable decisions. The Texas run game failed to show the explosive dynamism that it demonstrated at points throughout the first two weeks of the season.  Texas managed only 4.8 yards per play against the Roadrunners. Texas State, for reference, posted 6.0 yards per play in a losing effort against UTSA last week. UTRGV had 5.2 yards per play in Week 1.  That's not a healthy transitive property comparison with SEC play looming.  One of the few positives: No turnovers.  DEFENSE: A The Texas defense had done what it needed to in order to win, through two weeks. The Longhorns wrecked Texas State's offensive approach with takeaways and used a stiff red-zone resistance to set the Longhorns up for a comeback against Ohio State.  This, though, was the kind of suffocating effort that elite defenses provide.  The Roadrunners posted exactly one good drive, when they racked up 59 yards on 13 plays and kicked a field goal midway through the first quarter. Afterward, UTSA managed two first downs on the next eight drives.  What had been a top-20 rushing offense in college football was limited to 3.2 yards per rush, with no sign of the explosive ability that made the Roadrunners look like a dangerous proposition on offense coming into the game.  Oh, and the Longhorns came away with a takeaway, too. That's five on the year through three weeks.  SPECIAL TEAMS: D+ Gianni Spetic connected on a 52-yard field goal, which got the Longhorns off to a positive start in the game's third phase.  But penalties soured what could have been a strong night for this unit. The Longhorns took four penalties on special teams alone, including one that erased a big Ryan Niblett return. That's not an acceptable number.  COACHING: C-  This whole endeavor felt a little bit like a sleepwalking exercise. Texas took eight penalties. Its offense looked sloppy at best.  It's not entirely on the coaching staff to inspire a team to put a vastly inferior opponent to the sword — some of that has to come from the players themselves. But, especially after a week that included several off-the-field mishaps, it doesn't feel like the best version of the Longhorns showed up Saturday night.  OVERALL: C  This was a comfortable win for the Longhorns over a UTSA team that will go to a bowl game and compete to win the American Athletic Conference.  All of the issues discussed above are champagne problems to some degree. And it's important to highlight that.  Still, this is the No. 1 team in the country. Grades are issued on a curve for these Longhorns. They'll have to be better if they want to retain that ranking for the rest of the season.