AUSTIN, Texas — As the higher seed, the No. 3 Texas Longhorns are technically the home team for Saturday’s SEC Championship game against the No. 7 Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday in Atlanta, so the initial belief was that the Horns would wear the burnt orange jerseys they don for home games in Austin.
But the conference confirmed on Monday that Texas will instead wear its famous icy white road uniforms in what head coach Steve Sarkisian expects to be a hostile environment with Mercedes-Benz Stadium only 70 miles from Athens and in a city that around 90,000 Georgia alums call home.