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No. 10/10 Football preview: No. 6/6 LSU
09.02.2019 | Football
The Longhorns continue the 2019 season with a top-10 matchup in Austin.
No. 10/10 Texas (1-0) vs. No. 6/6 LSU (1-0)
September 7, 2019
Where: Austin, Texas
Stadium: Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium
Time: 6:30 p.m. CT
TV: ABC (Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Maria Taylor)
Radio: Longhorn IMG Radio Network (Craig Way, Roger Wallace, Quan Cosby)
Spanish Radio: Longhorn IMG Radio Network (Dr. Rubén Pizarro-Silva, Jesus Mendoza)
All-time Series: Texas leads, 9-7-1
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COMPLETE GAME NOTES
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THE OPENING KICKOFF
• The University of Texas continues its 127th season of football on Saturday when the Longhorns take on No. 6 LSU at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas.
• Texas currently boasts 909 all-time wins, the third-most in college football history. UT holds an all-time record of 909-370-33 (.705).
• Saturday will mark the 502nd game played at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. UT owns a 377-114-10 (.762) record in games contested inside the stadium.
• Two of college football's winningest programs square off Saturday night under the lights inside Darrell K Royal Texas-Memorial Stadium. The Longhorns own the third-most wins in college football history with 909, while LSU has the 12th-most with 798.
• This weekend's contest will mark the first time Texas and LSU have met on the gridiron since the Horns bested the Tigers, 35-20, in the 2003 SBC Cotton Bowl Classic.
• ESPN's College GameDay will be in Austin for the first time since 2009 on Saturday. It will be the 17th time that College Gameday has been on hand for a Longhorn Football game, and the seventh time the hit morning show has been hosted on the Forty Acres.
• Ten of Texas' 12 regular-season games will be contested inside the state of Texas, continuing with Saturday's matchup against the Tigers. UT will only leave the Lone Star State to face West Virginia (Oct. 5) and Iowa State (Nov. 16).
• Eight of UT's 2019 opponents played in a bowl game in 2018, with five of those teams winning their postseason matchups. LSU defeated UCF, 40-32, in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl last season.
• The Longhorns are scheduled to play 10 Power Five Conference opponents during the 2019 regular season, with Saturday marking the Horns' first Power Five game of the year. UT was the only program in college football to play 11 Power Five Conference opponents in each regular season from 2015-18.
• Texas played in 10 one-possession games in 2018, going 7-3 in such games. Prior to the loss in the Big 12 title game, UT's three regular season losses had come by a combined nine points.
• The Horns beat five ranked teams in 2018, their most since also besting five teams ranked in at least one of the national polls back in 2004.
THE ALL-TIME SERIES
• Saturday's game marks the 18th all-time meeting between the two storied programs, but the first since the 2003 SBC Cotton Bowl Classic and the first in Austin since 1954.
• Texas holds a 9-7-1 advantage in the all-time series and has won six of its last eight meetings with LSU.
• UT is 7-1-1 all-time against LSU in Austin.
• The Longhorns are 30-8-2 all-time against teams from the state of Louisiana. Texas has previously faced Tulane (17-1-1), LSU (9-7-1), Louisiana-Lafayette (2-0), Louisiana-Monroe (1-0) and Louisiana Tech (1-0).
A TEXAS WIN WOULD...
• Be Texas' 910th victory all-time, keeping UT as the third-winningest program in college football history.
• Mark Tom Herman's 41st victory as a head coach and his 19th at The University of Texas.
• Push Tom Herman's career record to 4-0 against current members of the SEC.
• Make the Longhorns 3-0 against SEC schools during Tom Herman's tenure as head coach.
• Improve UT's ledger to 192-91-9 all-time against current members of the Southeastern Conference.
• Push the Longhorns' record to 94-18 as a top-10 team since the start of the 2000 season.
• Be Texas' fifth consecutive regular-season victory, dating back to a win over Texas Tech on Nov. 10, 2018.
• Mark UT's fifth-straight win over a non-conference opponent, dating back to a 28-21 victory over Tulsa on Sept. 8, 2018.
THE 2019 SCHEDULE
• Texas faces a challenging slate in 2019 that features three new non-conference opponents from last season. Similar to last year, those games are the first three of the season.
• The first two will feature a pair of 2018 bowl winners with Louisiana Tech, which Texas defeated 45-14 to open the season, followed by the week two highlight of the national schedule as last season's Fiesta Bowl champion LSU comes to Austin. The final non-conference game will be the renewal of the series against former Southwest Conference foe Rice at NRG Stadium in Houston.
• The final nine weeks of the regular season will all be in Big 12 Conference play, with six of the nine opponents coming off of bowl appearances a season ago.
HEAD COACH TOM HERMAN
• Tom Herman is in his fifth season overall as a head coach with a career record of 40-14 (.741) entering the 2019 season opener. He is in his third season at Texas with a mark of 18-10 (.643).
• Including the 2019 season, Herman has spent 16 of his 22 seasons as a coach in the state of Texas on the collegiate level.
• Herman graduated from Cal Lutheran and received his master's degree in education from The University of Texas.
• He owns a career mark of 12-6 against Top 25 opponents, 5-4 against Top 10 foes and 3-2 versus teams in the Top 5.
CAPTAINS
The Longhorns announced their 2018 captains on Tuesday, August 20. The five captains are:
Sam Ehlinger (Austin, Texas, third-year QB)
Collin Johnson (San Jose, Calif., fourth-year WR)
Brandon Jones (Nacogdoches, Texas, fourth-year DB)
Malcolm Roach (Baton Rouge, La., fourth-year DL)
Zach Shackelford (Belton, Texas, fourth-year OL)
All five Longhorn Captains are first-time selections, marking the second time during Tom Herman's three seasons at the helm that all captains are first-time selections (2017).
