VIDEO: Tom Herman and Texas Bizarrely Celebrate Red Zone Interception in Alamo Bowl
By Mark Powell
Tom Herman and the Texas Longhorns have had a rough season, but this is taking undeserved optimism to a new, depressing level. Sam Ehlinger threw a goal-line interception against Utah in the Alamo Bowl, and Herman and Co. responded not with disappointment, but with a strange level of unbridled joy.
Incredible INT by Utah DB Javelin Guidry
— Boo Boo Shoester (@FTBeard11) January 1, 2020
Texas was actually celebrating the INT because it came on 4th down, if it was incomplete Utah would get the ball at the 8 yard line but since it was an INT Utah has to start from the 1 yard line! pic.twitter.com/qwLmgQ6wgX
Herman celebrated because Ehlinger's pick gave Utah the ball at the 1 yard-line. Had the pass fallen incomplete, they would've taken over at the 8 yard-line. That seven-yard difference in field position is great on a designed punt, but on a play in which Texas had a chance to make an early statement, it remains disastrous.