The past five years I've been here, I've never seen a team just grind as hard throughout the whole game and early in the season.”įrom a loss to UCLA in 2010 to last year’s forgettable road trip to Arkansas with humbling defeats suffered at the hands of BYU, Notre Dame, Cal and Maryland along the way, the Longhorns’ annual Power Five non-conference game since their last gridiron meeting with Alabama has by and large been a reminder of how distant the 110 wins, two Big 12 titles and national championship claimed under Mack Brown in the 2000s appeared to reside in the rearview mirror.
“At the end of the day, you’re always going to be frustrated with a loss,” defensive tackle Keondre Coburn said. Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian’s charges dealt with a wave of emotions while fielding questions from reporters inside the team meeting room of the Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletic Center when it was over, namely the struggle between being proud of an effort good enough to push head coach Nick Saban’s squad to the brink of what would’ve been a monumental upset and counting up the missed opportunities that left them painfully close to a program-altering victory.
1 Alabama before an electric, record crowd of 105,213 rabid fans on a sun-soaked, swampy afternoon at Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium where the Longhorns left everything they had on the searing-hot turf in a gritty, empty-the-tank performance before succumbing to the Crimson Tide, 20-19. AUSTIN, Texas - Make no mistake about it: Texas wanted to be declared the winner of Saturday's slugfest in which it went the distance with No.
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