Austin, Texas \u2014 <\/p>\n
Texas will play the first Halloween night football game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium when it hosts Mississippi State at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Texas Athletics. <\/p>\n
The Longhorns have played at home on Halloween eight times before, winning seven. <\/p>\n
Before kickoff, Texas will host a Halloween edition of Longhorn City Limits on the LBJ Lawn, featuring performances by Julianna Rankin and Uncle Kracker.<\/p>\n
\u201c Halloween night at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium is going to be something special,\u201d Texas Athletics Director Chris Del Conte said in a university release. <\/p>\n
Texas is coming off a 34-27 win over No. 7 Ole Miss, snapping a two-game losing streak. The Longhorns had fallen to Oklahoma and Florida by identical 27-24 scores. <\/p>\n
Texas led Ole Miss 24-3 at halftime, scoring 10 points in the first quarter and 14 in the second. The Rebels scored 14 in the third quarter, and both teams added 10 in the fourth. <\/p>\n
Texas finished with 419 yards of offense. Raleek Brown rushed for 157 yards, Arch Manning passed for 212 yards and Ryan Wingo had 111 receiving yards. <\/p>\n
The Longhorns converted 3 of 13 third-down attempts and were penalized 14 times for 134 yards. <\/p>\n
Mississippi State is looking to end a three-game losing streak after falling to Oklahoma, 23-15, last week. <\/p>\n
The Bulldogs trailed 10-0 at halftime, then scored seven points in the third quarter and eight in the fourth. They finished with 352 yards. Fluff Bothwell rushed for 111 yards, while Parker Puckett threw for 158 yards, one touchdown and one interception. <\/p>\n
Texas leads the all-time series 4-2 and has won the past two meetings, 35-13 in 2024 and 45-38 in overtime in 2025. The Longhorns are seeking a second consecutive win and a third straight victory over Mississippi State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin, Texas \u2014 Texas will play the first Halloween night football game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-482685","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\/482685","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=482685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}