Young has done this again and again in his brilliant career, saving Alabama against Florida and LSU and Auburn last year, and again Saturday, with one unflappable late drive after another. "When his best was needed," Saban said after the game, "he was really good." Then, after the Longhorns took a two-point lead with 1:29 play, Young delivered again, a Houdini-esque escape from a sack turning into a 20-yard gain that set up the game-winning field goal. Young accounted for 68 yards on Alabama's gotta-have-it 11-play touchdown drive with 8:29 to go, a merciless shredding of a Texas defense that had been dominant to that point. Please plan accordingly! Turn Around, Don't Play Bama #atxwx /NMR1d8zXKT- Avery Tomasco September 8, 2022
Mostly though, Texas might've won if it had Bryce Young, who proved once again that he's the best player in college football (and saved this weatherman a very embarrassing apology during Sunday's weather report).īREAKING: I know it's early, but I'm expecting a flash flood warning to go into effect at 11 AM on Saturday in Austin.Ī mix of longhorn sweat and tears will lead to rapidly rising water levels in DKR. Texas might've won if it simply wasn't Texas, wasn't the team that had been on the wrong side of things for so long that the universe simply couldn't allow such a massive upset to occur so early in the season. Texas might've won if its kicker hadn't flubbed a 20-yard field goal. Texas might've won with Ewers, who left the game with a shoulder injury in the first half (or, perhaps, because he only had enough quarters to feed the meter through halftime). No, as the Gen Z kids would say, Saturday felt like a genuine vibe shift. But the feeling in the aftermath isn't the familiar aura of malaise. Instead, it was still a loss, the seventh in the past nine games for Texas. It was a team that, with Ewers - or, perhaps, a properly called safety in the end zone in the third quarter - might've pulled the miracle.Īlabama escapes safety with roughing the passer callĪlabama escapes a safety after DeMarvion Overshown is penalized with a roughing the passer call on Bryce Young. It was a worthy competitor for a team many expect to win the national title. It has been a wild decade.) And yet, Texas was no joke Saturday. Hook 'em" to multiple losses to Kansas to an attack monkey trained to steal Halloween candy. (Though, credit to Texas for providing plenty of other material, from "OK, cool. It was a needed respite for the Pac-12.Īnd yet, despite all of it, perhaps nothing rattled the sport's hierarchy more than the action in Austin.įor much of the 12 years since Texas last played Alabama - another game in which it lost its starting quarterback - the Longhorns have served as a national punchline, with "Texas is back!" the easiest joke in college football. Washington State went on the road and beat Wisconsin, and USC's offense looked every bit as dangerous as the best of Lincoln Riley's Oklahoma teams. Then there was Kentucky, which ended the Anthony Richardson's Heisman Trophy campaign before Florida even had a chance to print up a batch of promotional Jorts. It was such an impressive performance by the Sun Belt that Kevin Warren has already expressed interest in adding six of its teams. Georgia Southern may have delivered the final dagger to Scott Frost at Nebraska. It was, it turns out, a fitting appetizer for a day of utter chaos - much of it delivered by the Sun Belt. Not on Nick Saban's watch.īut for 59 minutes against Alabama, Texas seemed astonishingly close to turning the page on a decade of heartbreak, embarrassment and jokes before falling to the Tide 20-19.
Not without its burgeoning star QB, Quinn Ewers.
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