Which was lost because Mack had only one backup QB, a freshman with poor eyesight, who had taken fairly few snaps, only in garbage time, who was your Sunday Newspaper Parade Magazine High School Football Player of the Year, and on basically about the same level as Arch at the same age.
Unfortuately your Shoulda-had-the-Heisman QB - a Mister McCoy - got speared in the shoulder by a 500-pound Bammer DL, allowed by refs to try a few throws to see if he could play, and couldn't. Texas had to take an official time out to do the testing and allow QB2 to find his helmet, which wound up taking long enough that the refs threatened to charge another time out.
The Kid finally found his helmet, got in the game and converted a couple TD opportunities into field goals.
Although Texas came close, Bama scored two more TDs in desperation/garbage time of the last couple of minutes and made it look like a three score blowout.
After the game, Mack announced that he was going to follow the example of the other team's Head Coach, Saban, and create a running team. He didn't mention that he allegedly had told his Defensive Coordinator, Will Muschamp, that he was going to retire after the game and Coach Muschamp, whose official title included the words "Head Coach In Waiting" would be the new Head Coach.
Mack allegedly excused himself by claiming he never said he was going to retire, but that he was planning to retire... but had simply changed his plans. You can imagine how happy Muschamp was.
That, mind you, was at the end of the 2009 season.
Me? I put the start of the Wildeness Wandering right there.