Despite not joining the SEC until the beginning of the 2024 season, the Texas Longhorns will travel to Tuscaloosa on Sept. 9 this year to take on Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide as the second game in a home-and-home series between the two sides. The Crimson Tide outlasted the Longhorns, 20-19, in Austin last year in what was one of the games of the year.
Today, Alabama football announced that its matchup with the Longhorns in Week 2 will be called the Allstate Crossbar Classic with the game obviously sponsored by Allstate. Each year, the Crossbar Classic will move to a new city and a new matchup, but what a cool place to start the tradition. The 2023 matchup will likely be a top-10 matchup with playoff implications.
The announcement caught a lot of fans by surprise, and here were the top reactions to the news.