Alabama vs.Texas football score, highlights from Week 2 game.

Alabama Football: Studs and Duds in victory over Longhorns.

One point separated what could have been the upset of the college football season between Texas and Alabama.

A tough back-and-forth game between the Longhorns and Crimson Tide ended on a frantic game-winning drive capped off by a Will Reichard field goal that gave Alabama the 20-19 win over Texas.

Last Minute Field Goal Lifts No. 1/1 Alabama Football to a 20-19 Victory Over Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas - The No. 1/1 Alabama football team pulled out a 20-19 win over Texas Saturday at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, on the strength of a 33-yard field goal by kicker Will Reichard with 10 seconds left on the game clock. With the win, the Crimson Tide goes to 2-0 on the season while the Longhorns drop to 1-1.

Reichard's effort as time wound down marked the first game-winning field goal in the last 30-seconds of a game for Alabama during the Nick Saban era - and first such win since the 2006 campaign. Reichard opened the scoring in the first quarter with a 52-yard field goal, which matched his career long.

After trading scores in the first half, resulting in a 10-10 tie going into the break, Texas hit three field goals in the second half, while the Tide responded with a touchdown and Reichard's game winner, both in the fourth quarter.  

Running back Jase McClellan led all rushers with 97 yards on six carries, including an electrifying 81-yard touchdown in the first quarter. Running back Jahmyr Gibbs led the Tide with 74 receiving yards on nine catches, including a seven-yard touchdown catch from quarterback Bryce Young in the middle of the fourth quarter. Young went 27-of-39 for 213 yards and a touchdown while adding 38 rushing yards on seven carries.

How It Happened

First Quarter

  • 08:47 - UA | Will Reichard matched his career-long field goal when he converted a 52-yard attempt to cap off a seven-play, 44-yard drive that lasted 2:52.
  • 02:51 - UT | Texas scored the first points on Alabama this season when Bert Auburn booted a 26-yard field goal to even the score and cap off a 15-play, 67-yard drive that lasted 5:56.
  • 02:34 - UA | Jase McClellan took the Tide's next offensive touch and raced 81 yards to the house to cap the first quarter scoring

Second Quarter

  • 14:55 - UT | Bijan Robinson scampered from a yard out on the first play of the second quarter to even the score and cap a six-play, 75-yard drive that lasted 2:39

Third Quarter

  • 06:27 - UT | A 33-yard field goal by kicker Bert Auburn staked UT to a 13-10 lead and finished off a six-play, 25-yard drive that took 3:12 off the clock.

Fourth Quarter

  • 12:55 - UT | Auburn connected on his third field goal of the game, this one coming from 24 yards away to cap a 12-play, 65-yard drive that lasted 5:47
  • 08:29 - UA | Young hit Jahmyr Gibbs with a seven-yard touchdown pass to stake the Tide to a 17-16 lead and cap an 11-play, 75-yard drive that took 4:26 off the clock
  • 01:29 - UT | Auburn put the Longhorns back in the lead with a 49-yard field goal, finishing off an eight-play, 44-yard drive that took 2:26
  • 00:10 - UA | Reichard hit a 33-yard field goal to clinch the game for Alabama after a nine-place, 61-yard drive that took just 1:19
The legacy of this game will be determined long from now. But in the short term, Alabama's road toward the place they've earned atop the sport looks more perilous than normal.
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