Top-ranked Alabama narrowly outlasted Texas in Austin on Saturday, claiming a 20–19 victory and staving off an upset bid thanks to a heroic final drive by Bryce Young.
The Week 2 game was tightly contested throughout as Crimson Tide struggled to move the ball for much of the afternoon against a reinvigorated Longhorns defense and Texas’s offense grew stagnant following an apparent arm injury to starting quarterback Quinn Ewers in the first quarter. However, a major reason that the outcome hung in the balance for so long was the uncharacteristic number of penalties committed by Nick Saban’s program.