Press release via UT Athletics
AUSTIN, Texas – ESPN’s College GameDay will broadcast live from the University of Texas campus on Saturday, Oct. 19, before No. 1/1 Texas’ home game against No. 5/4 Georgia, ESPN announced Saturday morning. The show will air for three hours from 8 to 11 a.m. CT, hosted by Rece Davis, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, Nick Saban, Kirk Herbstreit and other ESPN personalities.
The Longhorns and Bulldogs will kick off at 6:30 p.m. and air on ABC from inside Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.
It will be the seventh time in the last four seasons that Texas will be appearing on ESPN’s College GameDay. It will also be the second time this season UT has appeared on the show after it broadcast live from Ann Arbor, Mich., on Sept. 7 ahead of Texas’ 31-12 win over No. 10/9 Michigan at Michigan Stadium. It will be the 24th time overall the GameDay set and its show will be a prominent fixture at a Texas game.
UT is 12-11 all-time when the Horns are one of the teams in College GameDay’s featured matchup, highlighted by a 5-4 mark when the show comes to the Forty Acres.
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 be just the second time Texas and Georgia have played in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and the first since 1958.
