Injuries happen in college football games

Fifteen years later, and it still gets mentioned.

In the 2009-10 BCS national championship game, SEC champion Alabama defeated Big 12 champion Texas, 37–21. An unfortunate event happened for the Longhorns in that game when starting quarterback Colt McCoy suffered an injury in the first quarter that knocked him out of the game.

Almost every Texas fan I talk to swears the Longhorns would’ve won that game if McCoy hadn’t gotten hurt. That’s not much different than someone saying they would’ve won the lottery if they had just bought a ticket.