Alabama will never be able to erase its 34-24 loss to Texas inside Bryant-Denny Stadium on Sept. 9, or the statistics that came with it.
The Longhorns racked up 454 total yards that evening, with quarterback Quinn Ewers accounting for 349 through the air with three touchdowns. Yet there is one stat in particular that continues to haunt the Crimson Tide defensive front.
Zero sacks.
“We looked at that game as a lesson,” Alabama fifth-year senior defensive lineman Justin Eboigbe said this week in a news conference. “Hopefully there are no more lessons to be learned this season, and each and every week we’re just looking to get better and become a more dominant defense. Whether it’s our pass rush or stopping the run, we’re just looking to get better, and that’s something we showed on Saturday.
“Our goal is to continue to show that.”