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.
The Tide ended the game with 15 penalties, all of which took place in the first three quarters, resulting in 100 total penalty yards. According to ESPN Stats & Info, that’s the most penalties committed and accepted by an Alabama team in the Saban era.
