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.
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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