Saturday’s Texas-Tennessee football game in Knoxville is scheduled to include a visit from President Donald Trump.
Clay Travis of Fox News Radio was the first to report Wednesday afternoon that the 45th and 47th U.S. president will be attending the anticipated contest between the No. 1 Longhorns and the No. 14 Volunteers at Neyland Stadium.
The Southeastern Conference opener for both 3-0 teams has a noon kickoff on ABC, with ESPN’s “College GameDay” show broadcasting from campus as well.
Saturday’s showdown has been sold out for months, with the cheapest tickets going Wednesday evening for $352, according to ESPN. This is the fourth matchup between Tennessee and Texas and the first at a campus site, with the first three having taken place in the Cotton Bowl.
“It’s a big game,” Mike Keith, the “Voice of the Vols,” said Wednesday afternoon. “It has implications towards the SEC. It has implications potentially towards the College Football Playoff. Texas is No. 1, and I get all of that, but these are two of the 10 best-known college programs in the history of the game who have never played on campus.