Georgia vs. Texas

Georgia and Texas have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1948; the series is tied 4–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s even at 4–⁠4, and Georgia has won the last 3.

Scheduled 2027 at Texas; 2029 at Georgia. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Georgia wins
4
Texas wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1948
Longest streak
3 Texas
Current streak
3 Georgia
Last 10 meetings
even at 4–⁠4
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠1
1950s0–⁠2
1980s1–⁠0
2010s0–⁠1
2020s3–⁠0
Both ranked
5 meetings: Georgia 4, Texas 1; 4 both in the top 10
Average margin
11 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Georgia
1–⁠1 Georgia’s record at home
At Texas
1–⁠1 Texas’s record at home
Neutral sites
2–⁠2 Georgia first
Overtime
1 game went to overtime

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in. Overtime games from the games’ Wikipedia articles.

Games that tell the story

  1. Georgia’s biggest win2025: Georgia 35, Texas 10by 25 points
  2. Texas’s biggest win1957: Texas 26, Georgia 7by 19 points
  3. Upset2018: Texas 28, Georgia 21Texas had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Ranked showdown2024: Georgia 30, Texas 15No. 5 Georgia at No. 1 Texas
  5. Ranked showdown2024: Georgia 22, Texas 19No. 5 Georgia at No. 2 Texas
  6. Ranked showdown1983: Georgia 10, Texas 9No. 2 Texas at No. 7 Georgia
  7. Ranked showdown2025: Georgia 35, Texas 10No. 10 Texas at No. 5 Georgia

Coach against coach

YearsGeorgiaSeriesTexas
2024–⁠2025Kirby Smart3–⁠0Steve Sarkisian

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Georgia’s side (Smart 3–⁠0 against Sarkisian). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Georgia and Texas, 1948 on130015001700190019501960197019801990200020102020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Quinn Ewers Texas27 of 46, 358 yards, 1 TD, 2 INT2024 Passing
Matthew Golden Texas8 catches, 162 yards2024 Receiving

Named most valuable

Daylen Everette2024
Sam Ehlinger Texas2018
John Lastinger Georgia1983
Jeff Leiding Texas1983

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1948 game: .LonghornsP|ay Reckless Game To Win, 41.28 Lead Changes Hands Five Times, Score Sets Orange Mark

    1948 · Evening star, Jan 2, 1949

  • The Evening star's story of the 1957 game: Fondren Leads ! exos Over Georgia, 26-7

    1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 22, 1957

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

On television

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game twice: 2024, 2024.

2025ABC10.4 million viewers

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA). Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Nov 15, 20255Georgia 35, 10Texas 10at Georgia
Dec 7, 20245Georgia 22, 2Texas 19overtimeMercedes-Benz StadiumSEC Championship
Oct 19, 20245Georgia 30, 1Texas 15at Texas
Jan 1, 201914Texas 28, 6Georgia 21Caesars SuperdomeSugar Bowl
Jan 2, 19847Georgia 10, 2Texas 9Neutral siteCotton Bowl
Sep 20, 195811Texas 13, Georgia 8at Texas
Sep 21, 1957Texas 26, Georgia 7at Georgia
Jan 1, 1949Texas 41, 12Georgia 28Neutral siteOrange Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.