The Texas Longhorns Are Back, Folks. (This Time It’s Not a Joke.)

ESPN’s College GameDay comes to Austin Saturday, and once Lee Corso, Pat McAfee, and guest prognosticator Scottie Scheffler finish their morning of sports infotainment, the evening contest between the top-ranked Texas Longhorns and number five Georgia will be called on ABC and ESPN+ by Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Holly Rowe, and Katie George. That’s the network’s usual big-game broadcast team, but it sure would have been fitting to have Joe Tessitore at the play-by-play mic.It was Tessitore who called the Texas–Notre Dame game for ABC on September 4, 2016, in which the unranked Longhorns, coming off a second losing season under Charlie Strong, knocked off the tenth-ranked Fighting Irish in a 50–47 double-overtime thriller.“Texas is back, folks!” Tessitore boomed after UT quarterback Tyrone Swoopes dived…

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