National Championship

National Championship Game Texas vs. Alabama


The stage was set for the National Championship to be great and a lot of excitement between Alabama vs. Texas on Thursday night. Alabama was favored the whole time after blowing out Florida in the SEC championship game. Texas on the other hand played a tough one against Nebraska in the big 12 championship after a controversial call with one second left on the clock after Colt McCoy threw the ball out of bounce, and Texas kicking a game winning field goal. Colt McCoy and the longhorns offense look to prove to Alabama that their offense could get on a run and do damage against the Tide defense. But who knew we would never get a chance to see Colt McCoy in the National Championship except for 3 plays. After Alabama failed to convert on their first drive of the game the tide decided to punt the ball away to Texas. Instead the tide ran a fake punt and the longhorns caught them off guard had they got an interception. After the interception takes took the ball down to the tide 9 yard line in 2 plays look to take a quick lead in the game, but all that change on the 3rd play of the game as the horns ran an option play that didn’t work and McCoy was hit on the shoulder and took himself out of the game. McCoy ended up having a nerve injury in his shoulder and was not able to feel his shoulder and arm at all. The longhorns ended up losing the game 37-21 but the score was closer than it seems in the 4th quarter the horns maybe the game a 24-21 game with only 3:00 minutes left in the game. The question that everyone is asking right now is if Colt McCoy was able to play the whole game would the horns have won the game. Now being a longhorn fan I’m just saying this as a fan of college football I feel the game would have been closer or Texas would of blown the tide out of the game. The horns ran 2 quick plays that took them to the tides 9 yard line and easily could of took a 7-0 lead instead of a 3-0 lead. Then the horns regained the ball in the tides 30 yard line and easily could took of took a 14-0 lead instead of a 6-0 lead. The horns took it to the tide in the early minutes of the game as the tide looked confused and felt the horns were going to blow them away, but with the injury to McCoy we will never know. Greg McElroy QB for the tide was 5-11 with only 69 yards passing. Now what if McElroy had to pass the ball the whole game it would have been a long day for the tide. So another thing that you want to ask is is the tides national championship tainted knowing that fact McCoy didn’t play at all, and it wasn’t the game we wanted to see. 20 years from now all we will know is that McCoy didn’t play in the national championship and Alabama almost lost the game to a true freshman quarter Garret Gilbert.