Texas coach Steve Sarkisian channeled Nick Saban on Monday, issuing a warning to his Longhorns after their near-upset of No. 1 Alabama on Saturday.
"First of all, to quote my old boss, we've got to be careful of the rat poison of people telling us how good we are, which is important," Sarkisian said. "A week ago, everyone told us how bad we were. Now this week, everyone wants to tell us how good we are. We've got to be careful to quiet the noise outside of our building and focus on us."
Alabama, which had won 53 straight nonconference games, had to kick a field goal with 10 seconds left to beat the Longhorns in front of a record crowd of 105,213 fans at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.