Will Muschamp, who has been at Georgia since 2021 and served in an unspecified role this season, has been hired as defensive coordinator at Texas.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/texas as Will Muschamp Set to Bring Georgia Bulldogs Style to Texas Defense.

The Georgia Bulldogs are losing a key assistant to a major SEC rival next year. Former defensive analyst Will Muschamp was hired by the Texas Longhorns as their defensive coordinator. Texas fired defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski to make way for Muschamp.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian hopes that hiring Will Muschamp, who spent the last four seasons with Georgia, will help the Longhorns figure out how to beat the Bulldogs.

The hiring of Muschamp as the Longhorns' defensive coordinator could have a ripple effect throughout the program.

Will Muschamp is back running an SEC defense, and it will be back at Texas, where his head coaching career was originally supposed to begin.

Texas has hired former Florida and South Carolina coach Will Muschamp as defensive coordinator. Coach Steve Sarkisian announced the staff shakeup on Thursday.

Muschamp harkens back to Texas' glory days on defense, but the Longhorns won't take the next step until offensive problems are addressed