{"id":872693,"date":"2026-10-06T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872693\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:10:28","slug":"game-time-set-for-no-1-texas-vs-no-16-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872693\/","title":{"rendered":"Game time set for No. 1 Texas vs. No. 16 Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The No. 1 Texas Longhorns are set for an early start when head coach Steve Sarkisian\u2019s team returns to Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on October 17 when the No. 16 Florida Gators come to Austin with the SEC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secsports.com\/news\/2026\/10\/sec-football-on-tv-oct-17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcing<\/a> an 11 a.m. Central kickoff on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">ABC or ESPN will televise the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burntorangenation.com\/post\/V3ERxFbMwEqp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ranked No. 1 in both polls for the four straight week<\/a>, the program\u2019s longest stretch atop the AP Poll since 1977, Texas heads to Dallas for the Red River Rivalry against a reeling Oklahoma team that sits at 2-2 with road losses to Michigan and Georgia this season, putting offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle on the hot seat as quarterback John Mateer has struggled with game-changing turnovers. The Horns are a 7.5-point favorite over the Sooners, according to FanDuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Under first-year head coach Jon Sumrall, Florida is one of the surprise teams nationally, rising to No. 8 in the AP Poll after a 52-28 rout of then-No. 4 Ole Miss in Week 5. But winning on the road in the SEC is hard, as the Gators found out in Columbia over the weekend in a 45-17 defeat by the Tigers, who were able to stifle the prolific Florida rush attack that stars Jadan Baugh. Sumrall\u2019s team enters Week 6 ranked No. 16 heading into a home game against South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 1 Texas Longhorns are set for an early start when head coach Steve Sarkisian\u2019s team returns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,41661],"class_list":["post-872693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-texas-longhorns-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}