The Texas Longhorns gave No. 1 ranked Alabama everything the Crimson Tide could handle on Saturday but in they end the fell just a point shy of pulling off the biggest upset of this young college football season, losing 20-19 at home on a field goal in the final seconds.
This game had a bunch of big plays but the biggest moment might have been a horrible call made by the refs that ended up taking away a safety for Texas.
Check out this roughing the passer call in the third quarter that would have given Texas a 12-10 lead, which would have been pretty darn big.
Roughing The Passer on Texas takes away this safety pic.twitter.com/3IUthD02ye
— Mr Matthew CFB (@MrMatthewCFB) September 10, 2022
Not great! I don’t know how you make that call. Roughing the passer on a sack attempt? Come on, man.
Twitter had reactions.
Somebody told the Referee in his ear you better say there wasn’t a roughing the passer call or we ain’t getting out of Austin alive. https://t.co/GxK38PqNfe
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) September 10, 2022
That was a horrible call against Texas. They go from getting a safety and the lead to a phantom roughing the passer call. Young wasn’t even down when arm contact was made. They somehow end up calling this a forward pass without grounding. As bad as it gets. https://t.co/0eR1jENhuT
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) September 10, 2022
College football refs are a joke. This is not targeting nor roughing the passer https://t.co/JTrS9fYOFS
— Chris Wiggins (@iamchriswigg) September 10, 2022
QB wasn’t even down and they also miss the hold from the T https://t.co/qRSYIxhSPp
— Nick (@nick309912) September 10, 2022
This roughing the passer penalty wouldn’t even be a foul in basketball pic.twitter.com/kZcOHTF6X5
— Korked Bats (@korkedbats) September 10, 2022
Young is not down and still has the ball when Overshown touches him. How can that be roughing the passer?
— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) September 10, 2022
The Refs in the Texas vs Bama game explaining the roughing the passer call. pic.twitter.com/wOCkOLcZoI
— Wanderson (@wonderfulwill) September 10, 2022
This looks like a safety right?
Wrong, Alabama is involved so it was called roughing the passer pic.twitter.com/WASarb75zw
— Bad Sports Refs (@BadSportsRefs) September 10, 2022
The ref called THIS roughing the passer AND targeting… if anything It should be intentional grounding on Bama. #Texas #Bama pic.twitter.com/ASvROvL2uD
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) September 10, 2022
So in 2022 they call roughing the passer just for playing defense.
Good to know.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) September 10, 2022
