{"id":443110,"date":"2026-09-21T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443110\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:54:09","slug":"no-1-texas-is-a-5-5-point-favorite-over-no-14-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443110\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Texas is a 5.5-point favorite over No. 14 Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Texas football is preparing to head to Knoxville this coming weekend, where the Longhorns will open SEC play as a road favorite in what experts predict will be a key test for the program during the 2026 college football season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Consensus No. 1 Texas is <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/ncaaf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently a 5.5-point favorite<\/a> versus No. 14 Tennessee, with the over\/under listed at 55.5 points, according to the latest odds available online at FanDuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Those numbers are anticipated to move before kickoff this Saturday. Odds trackers elsewhere are already showing the total at 57.5 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Both Texas and Tennessee enter the matchup undefeated at 3-0. Texas is coming off a 30-6 win over UTSA over the weekend. Meanwhile, Tennessee notched their latest win in a 42-9 victory over Kennesaw State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s safe to say that the Longhorns have survived their most sizable early season challenge when Texas erased a 20-point deficit against then-top ranked Ohio State going on two weeks ago. The Longhorns scored 21 fourth-quarter points to outscore the Buckeyes 24-23 at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Looking ahead to this weekend, the Tennessee game will be Texas\u2019 first SEC road game of the 2026 regular season, as well as the program\u2019s first trip to Neyland Stadium after joining the league in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tennessee\u2019s offense will be led by freshman quarterback Faizon Brandon, who threw for 178 yards and a passing touchdown, while also adding a rushing touchdown, versus Kennesaw State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Meanwhile, Texas will also seek to hold its consensus top-ranking as the nation\u2019s No. 1 team, all while also avoiding yet another slow start, such as what the team experienced versus UTSA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">FanDuel\u2019s 5.5-point spread suggests fans can expect to catch a hyper-competitive matchup, and the 55.5-point total is a hint that both teams will arrive ready for an offensive showdown. Texas and Tennessee kicks off at 11 a.m. Central on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas football is preparing to head to Knoxville this coming weekend, where the Longhorns will open SEC play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":["post-443110","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\/443110","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=443110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}