Secretly, Texas officials would love to have the problem other SEC schools have after big wins. Longhorns fans simply don’t rush the field or the court.

It's a serious problem around the league, though. It’s such an issue that Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne is pushing for a serious penalty where fan behavior actually punishes the home team’s players.

In Byrne’s mind, if the fans storm the field or the court, the home team automatically forfeits the game.

“I don’t think from a financial penalty standpoint you can really put anything into place that would curtail it,” Byrne told ESPN. “I think it has to be other steps, other actions.”

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The SEC fine structure isn’t working particularly well, at least according to some. ESPN reported that Alabama’s football team was the visitor three times opposing fans stormed the field in 2024, and school officials received $400,000 total from Vanderbilt, Tennessee and Oklahoma.

Still, Byrne would prefer the stiffer penalty — forfeits.

“I truly believe it — if we said that the home team, if they storm the field or the court, they’re going to lose that game right then and there, that will stop it,” Byrne told ESPN.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey will take his idea under advisement.

“I think that’s a tough proposition,” Sankey told ESPN. “I do think there's more than Greg in this league who feel that way, though.”

The Longhorns have rarely been in a situation where fans stormed the playing surface. At Royal-Memorial Stadium, fans simply wouldn’t do it.

Texas fans did make their presence known this season against Georgia by throwing dozens of water bottles onto the field after a perceived bad call that was reversed.

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It was a huge embarrassing moment for school officials, who had to apologize to the league and issue stern messaging to the student body. UT later reported that no students were identified or disciplined after the fact.

But what if the Longhorns had been forced to automatically forfeit that October game against the Bulldogs? Water bottles would have flown well into the night, for sure.

The SEC’s procedures will be under the microscope again this weekend when No. 1 Auburn visits No. 2 Alabama in a huge rivalry matchup. Would Crimson Tide fans storm the floor if they knew it would cost their team a victory?

“A lot of people want to make their TikTok videos in that moment,” Sankey told ESPN. "We’ve had visiting players approached and insulted pretty aggressively, so somebody can make a video recording. Those aren’t healthy realities.”

Sankey even pointed out that TV coverage of these wild moments play a role.

“I’ve had conversations with folks at ESPN,” Sankey said. “It would be helpful if our media partners didn't glorify the moment repeatedly. We've had candid conversations about that. That certainly hasn't stopped our media partners from showing those moments.”

Byrne isn’t changing his mind that this is an incredibly unsafe situation where someone will get hurt.

“It’s hard to think you can have enough security to hold back thousands of people that want to get on the field,” Byrne said. “You can have a show a force of it, but at the end of the day, when those folks come and get on the field, it's hard to push ’em back. That's why you have to, I believe, stop the original motion of getting them to go to the field.

“People say it's just a celebration. It is a celebration, but it's not a safe one.”