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Fans react to Texas vs. Alabama being dubbed inaugural Allstate Crossbar Classic

Allstate raising the stakes of the Texas and Alabama showdown

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.

Alabama vs. Texas to be the inaugural Allstate ‘Crossbar Classic’

From now on, one high-profile contest every season will earn the title of that year’s Crossbar Classic. The first one is Alabama vs. Texas in 2023.

A new annual event highlighting one high-profile game every season is beginning in 2023. The Allstate Crossbar Classic will feature one marquee regular-season matchup every year and it starts with the Week 2 meeting between Alabama and Texas.

The showdown is the second installment of a home-and-home series. In 2022, the game took place in Austin, Texas where the Crimson Tide escaped with a one-point win.

Though the 2023 contest between two of the biggest brands in college football was already highly anticipated, this just adds an extra layer of excitement for fans. Not to mention, there may be some serious College Football Playoff implications depending on the outcome.

The game takes place on Sept. 9, 2023, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Roll Tide Wire will notice to follow Alabama football as the 2023 season approaches.

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