Alabama was backed up to their own end zone and Texas made a play that was made into a roller-coaster of emotion for fans because of the refs.
The Texas Longhorns delivered fans a massive shock to the college football world to start Week 2 as they were giving Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide everything they could handle. But in a 10-10 game midway through the third quarter, the fans at Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium were almost completely screwed by the refs.
Bama was backed up right to its own end zone when quarterback Bryce Young dropped back to pass. He felt immediate pressure and tried to get rid of the ball and it looked like it might be a safety, intentional grounding or, at worst, an incompletely pass.
Then the laundry hit the turf.
The refs threw a flag for targeting with roughing the passer that would’ve gifted Alabama a first down. And when you watch the play, you see what an awful call that would’ve been.
Texas football fans go through emotional ringer after refs try to gift Alabama a roughing the passer penalty
After review, though, the ref essentially said that he misspoke and that the call was targeting and not roughing the passer, meaning the ruling was an incomplete pass and that it would be fourth down.
Texas and college football fans were going through it over the controversial call, though.
Ultimately, Longhorns fans were still unhappy with the end result as they thought it should’ve been grounding and a safety — even though the refs actually made the right call with that with the ball being tipped and Jahmyr Gibbs being in the vicinity.
Still, it’s not a potential Alabama upset until there’s a controversy involving the officials. A tradition as old as football itself.
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