Texas is looking to win potentially its biggest game of the regular season under head coach Steve Sarkisian at home this weekend against No. 5 Georgia.
The No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs could easily be the biggest challenge No. 1 Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian faces for the remainder of the regular season in the SEC. Outside of a couple of tough contests against rivals Texas A&M and Arkansas in November, Texas’s schedule won’t get much more difficult than facing a Georgia squad under head coach Kirby Smart that has gone 41-2 in regular season contests since 2021 (per Sports Reference).
No. 1 Texas football has the tall task on offense of dealing with all of Georgia’s NFL talent at different levels of the defense
Texas is looking to pull off something that hasn’t been done in quite a while. The only team the Dawgs have lost to in its last 50 games is the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Sarkisian and the Longhorns are favored to defeat Smart and the Dawgs at home at DKR under the lights in primetime on Saturday night. But the Longhorns will be tested in multiple facets in ways that they haven’t seen so far this regular season on each side of the ball.
Georgia senior Carson Beck is easily the best quarterback the Longhorns have faced this season. It is also very realistic to say that Georgia’s offensive line, barring injuries, is the best Texas has faced so far this fall.
For Texas’s offense, it is encouraging to know that this isn’t the Georgia defense of year’s past. Georgia hasn’t been as dominant on the defensive side of the ball as many college football fans have become accustomed to.
That said, this will still be a big challenge for the Longhorns and Sarkisian to scheme something up and execute at the level required to beat a really talented Georgia squad.
Here are three ways Sarkisian and the Longhorns’ offense can attack Georgia’s defense in this top-five Week 8 battle at DKR in Austin on Saturday night.
