Texas superfan Glen Powell talks Longhorn football, the CFP and being Matthew McConaughey’s deputy

If you desire to get star Glen Powell to light up in an instantaneous, ask him about his football group. Powell, who had a breakout function in 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick and is starring alongwith Sydney Sweeney in this month’s romcom Anyone But You, is a Texas native and a self-proclaimed diehard Longhorns fan.

And he’s pumped to watch No. 3 Texas take on No. 2 Washington in the 2nd College Football Playoff semifinal videogame at the Sugar Bowl on Monday.

Powell’s grandparents, momsanddads, aunties, uncles and sis all went to the University of Texas, so the burnt orange is in his blood. Last season, Powell made an welcome on the set of ESPN’s College GameDay when the long-running program stopped in Austin. He puton a mullet wig in honor of quarterback Quinn Ewers and made Bijan Robinson mustard jokes. It was excellence.

This season, he’s preserved that interest and been in presence for anumberof Longhorn videogames regardlessof having a hugely hectic schedule. Being a Texas superfan indicates he’s likewise gotten a possibility to satisfy that other Texas superfan, star Matthew McConaughey.

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“To be along on this trip this season hasactually been quite remarkable, and lastly career-wise being at a location where I get to be welcomed on the sidelines as like McConaughey’s deputy,” Powell stated with a laugh in a current interview with For The Win. “McConaughey is constantly going to be the constable; I’ll be his deputy.”