Roam the burgeoning burg this week, and it’s plausible to come across zero mentions of the No. 1 Crimson Tide coming to town.
Austin as a college football town has grown more like Los Angeles as a college football town, even if it’s not as indifferent during the down years and not just because about half of Los Angeles up and moved to Austin. It has gotten far too big, varied and authentic to have any football game engulf it. Losing can’t consume it, even if losing can start to gobble up hope.
In a signal of the name, image and likeness era, Chip Brown of 247Sports asked Ewers which of his cars got towed, bringing Ewers to a momentary pause.
Austin FC, of Major League Soccer, the first pro team in what used to be the biggest city in the country without one, won’t be home this weekend: It will play in Seattle. But there’s everything else: poetry readings, a block party with Houston hip-hop artist Fat Tony and many others, art everywhere, the preview of Bruce Munro’s “Field of Light” at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, with its 28,000 solar-powered fiber-optic light pods.
For another thing, it’s a rare posture for Texas and its customary haughtiness occasionally earned. It has been a long time since Alabama beat Texas, 37-21, for Saban’s first Alabama national title, a game ruined when quarterback Colt McCoy got hurt on Texas’s fifth offensive play, and Texas has had four head coaches since then — and Alabama, well, one.
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