Texas Football: Lou Holtz dead wrong thinking Bama is 2019’s best team
Alabama rounded out the 2019 season in more impressive fashion than Texas football, but Lou Holtz had a wrong opinion recently about the Crimson Tide.
The Texas football program was by no means a national title contender throughout most of the 2019 season. But neither were the Alabama Crimson Tide after they fell short against the LSU Tigers and the Auburn Tigers in SEC play during the regular season.
The SEC West was a very crowded division in 2019. Any division, even among the Power Five conferences, that manages to leave a good Alabama team out of the conference title game is going to be tough to find any wiggle room. And the Crimson Tide could very well have fallen short against the eventual College Football Playoff National Champions, with LSU getting the best of them two months back.
What the Texas Longhorns football program and the Crimson Tide had in common this season was that both held top 10 preseason rankings in each major poll. But Alabama hung onto their top 10 ranking for a lot longer than the Longhorns did. It wasn’t until Alabama lost to LSU in early November that they started to fall out of the top 10.
Alabama should quickly work their way back into the top 10 too with their dominant second half showing against the Michigan Wolverines in the Citrus Bowl by the final score of 35-16.
However, there was an ESPN college football media personality that had a pretty bad take on who he thought was the best team in 2019. TMZ Sports caught up with ESPN’s Lou Holtz last weekend, and caught him saying that he thought LSU “got lucky” and that Alabama was the nation’s best team in 2019.
All you have to do is revisit the LSU-Alabama game that took place in Tuscaloosa back on Nov. 9 that wound up going in favor of the Tigers by the final score of 46-41 to find out why one is better than the other. LSU also beat Auburn during the regular season. That is a feat that Alabama was not able to pull off.
The point Holtz was trying to make there just wasn’t valid and proves the bias that can exist in the national media. Sometime a well known college football name like Lou Holtz can just be downright wrong, objectively-speaking, when he has a strong opinion about certain teams in the modern game.
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Alabama did finish up their 2019 season in more successful fashion than Texas. The Crimson Tide held a record of 11-2 (6-2 SEC) after beating Michigan in the Citrus Bowl. And Texas finished up with a record of 8-5 (5-4 Big 12) after knocking off the Utah Utes in the Alamo Bowl.