AUSTIN, Texas — Georgia football hadn’t looked much the part of a team to be feared this season on its way to a Saturday night trip into a venue filled with fans in burnt orange in a city that became the world capital of sports this weekend with a Formula 1 race here, too.

They certainly were in a dominant first half Saturday night.

The No. 4 Bulldogs showed against No. 1 Texas that they still may be the kings of the SEC and are still very much a CFP national championship contender.

Georgia dominated the Longhorns in the first half and rolled to a 30-15 win.

Georgia fans had reason to channel Texas superfan Matthew McConaughey and let out an “Alright, Alright, Alright,” after the Bulldogs ran out to a 23-0 halftime lead.

The Bulldogs went into Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium and upset the Longhorns before 105,215 in the first ever game for Georgia against a top-ranked team in a true road game.

Georgia withstood three Carson Beck interceptions including one that came after a pass interference call was wiped out. Beck (24 for 41 for 175 yards) hit tight end Oscar Delp for 43-yard on a flea-flicker and Trevor Etienne scored his third rushing touchdown of the game on a fourth-and-inches with 12:04 to play.

The win puts Georgia (6-1, 4-1 SEC) in great position to make the 12-team College Football Playoff with two wins over top 10 teams including Clemson.

Here are three things we learned:

Georgia football came out on short end of bottles delay game PI call change

The Bulldogs benefitted from a pass interference call on Jahdae Barron that wiped out a third-quarter interception until they didn’t and Texas scored a touchdown to close to within 23-15 with 2:12 to go in the third quarter.

Barron was called for pass interference for having hands on Arian Smith. That wiped out a return all the way to the Georgia 9.

Debris including bottles were thrown onto the field by Texas students.

That delayed the game and when the field was cleared officials overturned the pass interference. Texas got a 17-yard Quinn Ewers to Jaydon Blue touchdown to move one score down.

Coach Kirby Smart  was in the face of official Matt Loeffler on the sideline.

That followed a livid Steve Sarkisian after the initial call.

“That is about as bad as I’ve ever seen,” former Georgia quarterback and radio analyst Eric Zeier said of the reversal on the Bulldog network. “Oh my goodness, that is unbelievable.”

Georgia’s defense showed it can still be a handful

Georgia’s defense smothered and covered Texas which entered the game seventh in the nation in scoring at 43.2 and total offense at 495.7 yards per game.

Texas was held to a measly 38 yards on 34 plays in the first half.

The Bulldogs rang up seven sacks including three from linebacker Jalon Walker in the first half when the Bulldogs had seven tackles for loss and forced three turnovers. Mykel Williams added two sacks.

Opponents had averaged 28.3 points the previous three games against Georgia, a far cry from the 6.0 in the first three games this season and 15.6 last season when it ranked fifth in the nation in scoring defense.

Former Alabama coach Nick Saban on College GameDay said missed tackles and explosive plays allowed “was something you never saw before in Georgia’s defense.”

Georgia did give up an explosive pass play in the third quarter on a 34-yard pass play from Quinn Ewers to Matthew Golden, but Julian Humphrey had a fourth down pass breakup to give Georgia the ball at its 32,

Smart credited defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann in a halftime ABC interview “putting some packages together that helped us a little bit to disguise things…”

After six unproductive possessions with Quinn Ewers at quarterback, Texas summoned Arch Manning into the game in the second quarter. The Longhorns punted after gaining 15 yards.

Texas had 28 yards of total offense when Manning rushed for 21. Ewers returned in the second half.

The Texas cannon went off with Georgia adding its final points to a 23-0 halftime lead on Peyton Woodring’s 44-yard field goal, his third of the game.

Daylen Everette had career-defining game

No matter what else happens in Daylen Everette’s Georgia career, it will be hard to top the impactful first half he had to help the Bulldogs build a 17-0 lead.

The junior cornerback from Norfolk knocked the ball loose on a sack of Ewers with a hit in the back on a corner blitz.

The Georgia cornerback then won a mad scramble for the loose ball to set Georgia up for its first touchdown, a 2-yard run by Trevor Etienne.

He later stepped in for pass intended for Golden on the right side for his second career interception to set up a second Georgia touchdown on a 15-yard Etienne run.

Etienne rushed for 62 yards on 8 carries in the first half.

This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Georgia football jumps all over No. 1 Texas and holds on for upset win