Former Texas coach Mack Brown and former Longhorns quarterback Vince Young are taking their podcast on the road to Baton Rouge this Friday, setting up shop at a bar best known as LSU gameday headquarters ahead of the Texas-LSU game. The live taping of The Stampede, a Texas Longhorns podcast, is scheduled for Friday, November 13, 2026, at Fred's Bar & Grill.
According to CBS Austin, Brown, Young and CBS Austin presenter Bob Ballou will take The Stampede on the road for the live show, which runs from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at Fred's Bar and Grill, located at 1184 Bob Pettit Blvd. in Baton Rouge. The event is part of the Athletes First Tailgate, presented by Las Vegas, and is scheduled before the Texas-LSU game.
The gathering is open to guests 19 and older, and the event will feature a live episode taping. Fans hoping to attend can RSVP at tailgatetourlsu.rsvpify.com. CBS Austin's reporting lists Athletes First, AMP Sports, Pledge to Drive Sober and Olukai as sponsors of the event.
Fred's Is Tigerland Territory
The choice of venue carries its own local significance. Fred's in Tigerland is a big part of the LSU football gameday experience for many Tiger fans, according to WAFB, making it a notable spot for a Texas-branded podcast to set up shop just before kickoff against the host Tigers.
The Baton Rouge stop fits into a larger schedule for the Athletes First Tailgate Tour, which lists The Stampede's live show for the Texas-at-LSU matchup as one of its stops, according to a release from sbgi.net. That release describes 2026 as the tour's fourth season and its largest yet, with 12 stops total, and the first time the tour has included two College Football Playoff games, one of them the National Championship. Visit Las Vegas is serving as the presenting partner for this year's tour, per the same release, and AMP Sports is slated to host live, original video podcasts recorded at eight stops across the schedule.
Not The Tour's First Texas Stop
This isn't the first time The Stampede has hit the road as part of the tour. A year earlier, AMP Media and KEYE announced their participation in an Athletes First Tailgate Tour stop in Austin on November 21, 2025, ahead of the Arkansas-Texas game, with plans for a live show at 7 p.m. Central Time, according to sbgi.net's earlier announcement. Friday's Baton Rouge taping will be held at Fred's Bar and Grill ahead of Texas's game against LSU.
