Georgia eyes Texas Tech boycott after judge clears Brendan Sorsby to play

Georgia’s athletic department moved swiftly after a Lubbock County judge granted Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby a temporary injunction against the NCAA, a ruling that made him eligible to play in the 2026 season. Josh Brooks, Georgia’s athletic director, reportedly told coaches not to schedule Texas Tech, and his comments were said to go further, urging schools to consider not playing the Red Raiders in any sport if Sorsby was on the field.

The legal step that triggered the backlash came from Judge Ken Curry of the 99th District Court in Lubbock County, Texas. The injunction overruled the NCAA’s lifetime gambling ban as applied to Sorsby and came after he had already served a two-game suspension. The result was more than a personnel ruling for Texas Tech. It became, almost immediately, a flashpoint in the broader fight over who sets the rules in college football.

That reaction has been unusually harsh even by the sport’s standards. ESPN’s Pete Thamel described the mood around college athletics as one of disgust, while reports said Big 12 athletic directors were discussing whether to boycott games against Texas Tech. If that talk advances, it would amount to a rare escalation in which scheduling itself becomes leverage in a governance dispute, not just an ordinary response to a roster decision.

Cody Campbell sharpened the confrontation by going public on X and questioning Georgia’s discipline. DawgNation reported that Georgia has had eight players arrested in the past year, a number Campbell invoked as he pushed back on Brooks and the Georgia football program. The exchange turned the argument from a single injunction into a referendum on accountability, discipline and which schools get to claim the moral high ground while pressing their own competitive interests.

Texas Tech enters the dispute as the reigning Big 12 champion, which makes any boycott talk carry real weight beyond one season. The Red Raiders already had two nonconference games canceled for 2027, leaving open slots that could become harder to fill if other programs follow Georgia’s lead. For now, the ruling in Lubbock has done more than clear Sorsby to play. It has exposed how court decisions and conference politics are now shaping who shows up on college football schedules at all.