The Longhorns and Crimson Tide met in bowl games six times between 19, but did not play a regular season game again until last year’s 20-19 win by Alabama in Austin. Texas later hosted Alabama a pair of times in 19, winning both times. The two schools first met on a football field in 1902 in a game that Texas won 10-0.
(Later in this post you’ll learn about a player who was a member of the first teams at both schools.) Now in their 131st seasons of playing football (Alabama started a year earlier but did not have a team in 1918), the two schools rank second (Alabama) and fifth (Texas) in all-time wins by a college football program, and they have claimed a combined 22 national titles. The shared football history between Texas and Alabama includes, among other things, several high-profile bowl game matchups, a fateful national championship game in 2010, eight long-ago seasons in which they were both members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1896-1903), at least six players who have suited up for both schools, more than a dozen coaches who have worked for both schools, and the wishbone triple-option offense that both schools employed for most of the 1970s.Īlabama fielded its first football team in 1892, and Texas did so a year later. Most of those past matchups have been in bowl games, and today’s game will be UT’s first-ever visit to Bryant-Denny Stadium and its first road game at Alabama since 1902.
When the Texas Longhorns and the Alabama Crimson Tide kick off on Saturday in Tuscaloosa it will begin the 11th all-time football meeting between the schools.
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