Texas will face Texas State for the first time since 1930, facing off during Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n
For Austin businesses, that means more food, more staff and more decorations.<\/p>\n
Kenneth Hooper, Koko’s Bavarian general manager, said the bar takes gameday very seriously, with televisions positioned at every angle throughout the space, including a massive screen made up of multiple TVs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is 9 TVs put together,” Hooper said. “We have some of the biggest screens in the city.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said gameday details also cover the bar, from UT banners to old newspaper articles and even a giant Bevo.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s taller than me even though I don\u2019t want to admit it,\u201d Hooper said about the display.<\/p>\n
At Cain and Abel\u2019s, a West Campus sports bar, general manager Jaxen Bailey said staff have been preparing for Saturday for months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur kitchen is really, really good,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping that people get to enjoy the burgers. That\u2019s a new thing that we\u2019ve added over the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not everyone coming to Austin for the game calls Texas home.<\/p>\n
Matthew Mardini traveled from Canada for his bachelor trip and said seeing the Longhorns play was part of the plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Longhorns have a great team this year,\u201d Mardini said. \u201cWe wanted to come see Arch Manning in his last year. I thought it would be a good experience for 12 guys from Toronto.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for who will walk away with the win, Longhorn fans did not need much time to make their predictions.<\/p>\n
\u201cHorns by 100, easily,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll probably be like 30 to 0 by half,\u201d UT senior Sanjan Kondaparthi said.<\/p>\n
Kickoff between Texas and Texas State is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin businesses said they\u2019re stocking up and increasing staffing as the Texas Longhorns prepare to face Texas State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-428645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428645","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=428645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}