{"id":421375,"date":"2026-08-31T00:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421375\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:04:15","slug":"no-5-texas-is-a-30-5-point-favorite-over-texas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421375\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 5 Texas is a 30.5-point favorite over Texas State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Saturday, GJ Kinne makes his return to the Forty Acres as the head coach of the Texas State Bobcats in the season opener for the Texas Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, a game in which head coach Steve Sarkisian\u2019s program is favored by 30.5 points, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/ncaaf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to FanDuel\u2019s odds on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kinne spent one season at Texas as a back up to Colt McCoy before going on to a successful career at Tulsa and several seasons in the NFL. Now in his fourth year with the Bobcats, Kinne helms a potent offense led by redshirt sophomore quarterback Brad Jackson while hoping that his hire of Will Windham from South Alabama will lead to an improved defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The only previous matchup between the two schools was a 36-0 win by Texas in 1930 over what was then known as the Southwest Texas State Teachers College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kick is at 2:30 p.m. Central on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, GJ Kinne makes his return to the Forty Acres as the head coach of the Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":["post-421375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}