This is why individuals can’t give up Texas. They have all of the expertise to hold with and beat the perfect groups in the nation even with a backup QB, and like Mikey with a quantity in Swingers, fuck it up. The remainder of the SEC watching needs that model of Alabama exhibits as much as convention play, however nonetheless somebody has to cease their working game and harass Bryce Young all game. Well, 59-ish minutes of the game.
With the offensive line struggling to guard him or constantly open holes, and receivers dropping passes for many of the game, Young drove the Crimson Tide down the sphere with relative ease, culminating in him Houdini-ing his means out of a sack and into area aim vary.
Alabama would go on to make the sphere aim and win the game, 20-19.
Texas No. 2 quarterback Hudson Card made simply sufficient throws to earn a lead late, and it’s cheap to say that had Quinn Ewers not gotten harm, Texas would’ve gained this game. At the half, Steve Sarkisian stated he was going to maintain working his stuff, and if enjoying for area targets as an alternative of touchdowns is his stuff, then possibly they nonetheless lose if Ewers doesn’t get roughed up.
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Texas bought contained in the Bama 20-yard line 5 instances, and walked away with one landing and three area targets on 4 makes an attempt. One drive early in the fourth quarter was significantly egregious, working for all intents and functions a fullback dive on second and 5 earlier than kicking a area aim to go up 16-10. Young answered to make it 17-16 with the Tide’s first actual sustained drive of the game. It was their first of three, the second of which ended on fourth and one and gave Texas the possibility to kick a go-ahead area aim with a minute and alter left, and the ultimate was for the game-winning area aim.
The complete afternoon in Austin was drunk and sweaty, and it’s laborious to be ok with Nick Saban’s unit after they escaped Austin regardless of 100 yards in penalties. I’m fairly certain the refs both had warmth stroke, or a few Shiners themselves. It was poorly officiated all through with prolonged critiques, and Longhorns’ followers have a official gripe with an incomplete cross name that ought to’ve been at the least intentional grounding for a security if not only a security.
Instead, that was known as roughing the passer with focusing on, however the ref misspoke and needed to retract it earlier than delivering the ultimate verdict that you just couldn’t hear as a result of the group was booing so loudly. (In the occasion of focusing on with roughing the passer, the roughing would stand no matter if it was focusing on. Had the Tide been given 15 yards and a primary down for that, the group would have rioted.)
Advice to anybody doing something in Austin tonight apart from hiding beneath the covers and ready for Sunday, don’t. Go dwelling. Ruminating on that loss will solely make you mad, and Sweet Home Alabama goes to be caught in your head at the least by way of brunch should you go wherever close to celebrating Tide followers.
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