A pair of heavyweight college football programs are set to meet when the No. 1 Texas Longhorns (6-0, 2-0) host the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs (5-1, 3-1) at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. ET. The Longhorns are coming off a dominant 34-3 win over Oklahoma in the 2024 Red River Rivalry. The Bulldogs are coming off a 41-31 win over Mississippi State. Texas leads the all-time series 4-1, including a 28-21 win in the most recent meeting at the 2019 Sugar Bowl. 

The Longhorns are 4.5-point favorites in the latest Texas vs. Georgia odds via SportsLine consensus, while the over/under for total points scored is 56.5. Texas is a -190 (risk $190 to win $100) favorite on the money line, with Georgia listed as a +157 underdog (see up-to-date odds for every game this week on our college football odds page). 

Before you make any Texas vs. Georgia picks or any other college football predictions, you NEED to see which side proven SportsLine expert Jimmie Kaylor is on. 

Kaylor is a NFL, college football and DFS expert for SportsLine, who has covered the NFL and college football for close to a decade as a member of the Pro Football Writers of America. His background as a former college football All-American and NFL player gives him a unique perspective when building his fantasy lineups and locking in his betting picks. He has his finger on the pulse of the college football landscape and has been cashing in big for the last two years. 

Kaylor has destroyed the books in college football the last two seasons, netting a whopping 53.9 units while posting a 163-102-2 record since Week 1 of the 2023 season. Anyone who followed his picks finished the season WAY UP!

Now, Kaylor has locked in a confident against-the-spread pick for Georgia vs. Texas in their Week 8 matchup in Austin. We can tell you he's leaning Under on the point total, but he knows a crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK! You ABSOLUTELY need to see what it is before locking in any picks of your own.

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