No. 1/1 Texas Football's (5-0) Week 8 home contest vs. No. 5/4 Georgia (4-1) on Saturday, Oct. 19, will kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT on air on ABC.
Texas and Georgia have met five times with the Longhorns holding a 4-1 series advantage with the most recent meeting in the Allstate Sugar Bowl following the 2018 season. The Longhorns defeated Georgia, 28-21. The Bulldogs won the previous matchup, 10-9, in the 1984 Cotton Bowl, which was the Longhorns' lone defeat of the 1983 season. Texas also prevailed, 26-7, in 1957, and 13-8 in 1958, in a home-and-home series played in Athens and Austin, respectively. The Longhorns won the first-ever meeting, 41-38, in the 1949 Orange Bowl to conclude the 1948 season. Oct. 19 will mark the second time Texas and Georgia have played in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and the first since 1958.
This week, the Longhorns clash with No. 18/16 Oklahoma in this year's edition of the Allstate Red River Rivalry at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The game will broadcast on ABC with Chris Fowler (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) and Holly Rowe (reporter) on the call.