AUSTIN, Texas -— Things seemingly couldn’t get much worse when Arkansas backup quarterback Tyler Wilson threw a pass across the middle and then immediately got hit.

By that point, starting quarterback Casey Dick and kicker Alex Tejada had been benched. The offensive line was in disarray. And the Razorbacks had gone more than 30 minutes without scoring a point.

But the worst offensive showing of the Bobby Petrino era hit its low point Saturday afternoon when Texas cornerback Aaron Williams intercepted Wilson’s pass intended for wide receiver Jarius Wright and returned it 81 yards for a touchdown.

It was the only touchdown pass thrown by an Arkansas quarterback during a long and unproductive day that ended in a 52-10 loss to the seventh-ranked Longhorns in front of a crowd of 97,833 in Texas-Memorial Stadium.

“We got our butts kicked. I haven’t been involved in a whole lot of those,” Arkansas offensive coordinator Paul Petrino said. “We just kind of got whooped and didn’t execute good enough and didn’t move the ball well enough.”

As a result, Bobby Petrino suffered the worst loss of his career, surpassing last Saturday’s 49-14 defeat to No. 8 Alabama.

And Arkansas’ players will be forced to do some soul searching after suffering the third-biggest loss in the team’s longstanding rivalry with Texas (4-0).

“That’s a beating,” Bobby Petrino said, looking exhausted and dejected afterward. “They beat us in every way.”

In particular, the Razorbacks (2-2, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) must come up with answers after Dick and Wilson were sacked seven times, the running game managed only 11 yards rushing and the offense finished with just 191 yards total.

It was a stark contrast from Texas’ offense, which seemed to do everything right as quarterback Colt McCoy put together a performance that should vault him into the Heisman Trophy discussion.

He completed 17-of-19 passes for 185 yards and three touchdowns, rushed for 84 yards and another two scores and helped illustrate just how dominant an offense can be while building a 31-3 halftime lead.

“We didn’t get anything going the entire game and that’s extremely frustrating because you go out to practice every day and you can move the ball and execute like you’re supposed to,” Arkansas running back Michael Smith said. “But then when times come, you don’t do what you’re supposed to.”

Despite Petrino’s repeated attempts to get off to a fast start, Arkansas was shut out in the first quarter for the fourth consecutive game to open the season. And the offensive line folded when Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp mixed up blitzes and threw different looks at the Razorbacks.

In a sign of how bad things got, Arkansas’ defense outscored the offense 6-3, thanks to a late 80-yard fumble return for a touchdown by defensive end Antwain Robinson.

“We dominated the line of scrimmage, played real physical. We stopped the run and made them one-dimensional,” Muschamp said. “When you do that, it opens up the pass rush and makes it an easier game to call.”

Missed blocks put the Razorbacks in the uncomfortable position of facing too many third-and-longs, and they came up empty even when the offense clicked temporarily.

Dick completed an 18-yard pass to wide receiver Joe Adams on Arkansas’ first play of its second drive, giving the team a first down at Texas’ 45.

And after a pass interference penalty moved the ball to the 30, Smith managed only a 3-yard run and Dick threw a pair of incomplete passes to force struggling kicker Alex Tejada to take the field.

But Tejada pushed his 44-yard field-goal attempt wide right. The former Springdale High kicker was benched after the miss, one of many things to go wrong on the day.

“I just think we got out-executed in everything we did,” said Dick, who finished 7-of-13 for 138 yards before getting benched in the fourth quarter.

“We’ve got to be able to come out, execute and just get better at the basic fundamentals.”