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What if Quinn Ewers wasn’t injured in the first half? The former five-star with all the hype looked every bit like a rising star until he was knocked out with a shoulder injury. The Longhorns missed a lot of opportunities, and just like that championship game in the Rose Bowl, they left an Alabama loss with a what if? “I think we’re moving in the right direction with the roster, the style of play and the mentality of the type of opponents week in and week out,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian told reporters. Texas played with a grit and toughness it has rarely displayed during the program’s decade in the wilderness since losing the 2009 BCS title game to the Crimson Tide. In the end, if it did, that might not be the worst thing. Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian said in the week leading up to the matchup against his former boss, Saban, this game would not define his team. The game in Austin produced a result few expected and played out in a way that nobody would have imagined. With all the midafternoon carnage in the Top 25, one might have forgotten all Alabama had to do to beat Texas.

18 Wisconsin in Madison, and it was a difficult day for double-digit favorites. Throw on top of that Washington State knocking off No. 6 Texas A&M, upsetting the Aggies with a master class of keep-away football. Marshall’s upset was only the opening act for the Sun Belt Conference.Īppalachian State, conjuring up memories of 2007 against Michigan at the Big House, squeezed the breath out of No. In South Bend, Ind., the honeymoon for coach Marcus Freeman came to a resounding and stunning end when Marshall not only beat the eighth-ranked Fighting Irish, but pushed them around right in front of Touchdown Jesus. The Aggies and Fighting Irish were Sun Belted. “We made a lot of mental errors,” Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said.

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1 (though maybe not for much longer) Alabama needed every little bit of misfortune that conspired against Texas, plus a Heisman-worthy performance by its Heisman Trophy winner, to avoid its first regular-season nonconference loss since 2007 in Austin.

Then in Week 2 we realize just how much we didn’t know - and that’s when the fun starts. The college football offseason is mostly spent trying to figure what’s going to happen when the games start.

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