Pizza’s ready. Updating after first score…
Saban’s hubris results in a 3-0 Texas lead, but McCoy is hurt after taking his first hit from an Alabama linebacker.
After Arenas’s fail, McCoy was reported in x-ray. Texas scored a field goal, got pinned deep by Alabama defense, and Ingram was unstoppable. 7-6 AL
49-yard touchdown run by Richardson; Alabama leads 14-6. McCoy escorted out of pads to the locker room where his father was summoned. #McCoyFail in one hit!
(For the uninitiated, #McCoyFail is a hashtag. I’m Tweeting the game as I watch.)
Saban finally takes a field goal and then Texas’s freshmen backup quarterback throws an interception on a shovel pass. An Alabama linebacker rumbles for a touchdown and it’s 24-6 at the half.
Okay, I admire Texas for emerging from the locker room at the half with its A-game. A 44-yard touchdown pass and then a successful onside kick. Alabama used up the first four minutes of the fourth quarter and Van Tiffin missed a field goal attempt.
Garret was doing quite well when he was blindsided by an Alabama linebacker and fumbled in front of his own goal line. Mark Ingram scored his second TD, Alabama leads 31-21 with 2:01 left — it’s 29 degrees outside and I heard a bottle rocket.
Alabama finally intercepted Garret and got the chance to run out the clock, but couldn’t help themselves. The only disappointment was to see Van Tiffin end a stellar college career with a missed PAT.
Final: Alabama 37, Texas 21.
