When Texas and Alabama kick off this evening it will begin the 11th al-time football meeting between the schools. Most of those past matchups have been in bowl games, and today’s game will be UT’s first-ever visit to Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, and its first road game at Alabama since 1902.
The shared football history between Texas and Alabama includes, among other things, several high-profile bowl game matchups, a fateful national championship game in 2010, eight long-ago seasons in which they were both members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1896-1903), at least six players who have suited up for both schools, more than a dozen coaches who have worked for both schools, and the wishbone triple-option offense that both schools employed for most of the 1970s.