Texas’s Quinn Ewers threw for 288 yards and three touchdowns and the defense held Vanderbilt to 269 total yards, as the No. 5 Longhorns knocked off the 25th-ranked Commodores 27-24, in Southeastern Conference play at Nashville on Saturday.The Longhorns entered the day ranked No. 1 in scoring defense (9.7 points per game) and total defense (237.3 yards per game) and it showed as Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia had a season-worst day (16-of-29, 143 yards, two touchdowns, two interceptions).Vanderbilt, which had turned it over just twice all season, coughed it up three times on Saturday.Wide receiver DeAndre Moore Jr. caught two first-half touchdowns for Texas (7-1, 3-1 SEC), which never trailed after the first quarter.Texas’s Bert Auburn hit a 40-yard field goal to extend the Longhorns’ lead to 24-10 with 8:54 left in the third quarter.Vanderbilt (5-3, 2-2) then went three-and-out for fifth time in its eighth drive but Randon Fontenette tipped a Ewers pass and Miles Capers corralled it at the Longhorn 38.On fourth-and-goal from the 3, Pavia threaded a throw through several Longhorns into the hands of Junior Sherrill for a touchdown that got the Commodores within seven.A Khordae Sydnor sack forced a Longhorn punt, but Texas’s Liona Lefau picked Pavia and returned it six yards to the Vandy 29 on fourth-and-2 on the Commodores’ ensuing possession.Auburn’s 23-yard field goal with 1:57 left extended the lead to 10.Vandy’s Pavia connected with Eli Stowers on an 8-yard score with 46 seconds left but the onside kick failed.Texas led 21-10 at the half thanks to forcing two turnovers and Ewers hitting 19-of-21 throws for 211 yards and three scores.