Overview
- The University of Texas announced the Bevo Lab on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, as a 25,000-square-foot AI and analytics center housed in Innovation Tower.
- Founding partners Google Cloud, Dell Technologies and SHI will provide cloud AI, infrastructure and integration with Google’s Gemini named as the lab’s AI engine.
- UT says pilots with Google Public Sector already cut coaches' game-prep time by about 15 hours per week through automated film, data and scouting reports.
- Bevo Lab begins with 24 undergraduates, plans to support 40 student researchers in year one and aims to scale to roughly 200 students annually as part of a hands-on training pipeline.
- Reports that the lab influenced a fourth-and-2 call vs. Florida prompted public scrutiny and Athletic Director Chris Del Conte later clarified his comment was an illustrative example, leaving questions about in-game AI use and data governance to be resolved.