100
In the box score, it simply reads:
2nd & 11 at TEX 49
(0:14 - 3rd) Jalen Milroe pass complete to Jermaine Burton for 49 yds for a TD (Will Reichard KICK)
ALA 16 TEX 13
But it might as well of been the epitaph on the tombstone of a valiant effort from the Texas Longhorns.
Bryant Denny Stadium erupted for the first time all night — it all of the sudden got very lonely where we were sitting high up in Section NN-4.
Reichard kicked it through the end zone, and Texas trotted out to the 25-yard line looking to gain the momentum that just went down the drain.
Instead, all they could muster on first down was a 3-yard pass to Keilan Robinson.
Quarter, as the great Wally Pryor used to boom.
Well, it was a valiant effort, I told myself as we sat down for the television timeout.
Then…..this:
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The stadium was coming apart at the seams. The students were going nuts, and they blurb the audio here but they were definitely telling Auburn and Tennessee and LSU what they could do with themselves.
Alabama hadn’t lost in 21-straight games at home, and they surely weren’t going to lose a game to a team from the piss ant Big 12.
But towards the end of the light show, in the darkened stadium aglow in crimson, I looked down and noticed something.
Adonai Mitchell dancing along to the song.
Oh. Shit.
2nd and 7 at the TEX 28
(14:55 - 4th ) Ewers, Quinn pass incomplete, PENALTY ALABAMA pass interference (Arnold, Terrion) 15 yards to the TEXAS 43, 1ST DOWN TEXAS
1st and 10 at the TEX 43
(14:20 - 4th) Quinn Ewers pass complete to Ja’Tavion Sanders for 50 yards to the ALA 7 for a 1ST Down
(14:05 - 4th) Quinn Ewers pass complete to Adonai Mitchell for 7 yds for a TD (Bert Auburn KICK)
A little more than a minute.
Texas lost the lead, had the stadium setting off the Richter scale across campus.
And then, less than seventy seconds later, they had the lead again.
THAT is when I knew that team was special.
In 100 days, Texas walks into the Horseshoe. And the Arch Manning era begins.