Paul Finebaum was heavily influenced by the events in Tuscaloosa Saturday night when he made his latest top 4 on SportsCenter on ESPN Sunday morning.

Texas delivered a historic win over the Crimson Tide in convincing fashion.

“I think we can all collectively say, ‘Texas is back’ and they’re in the top 4,” Finebaum said. “There’s no getting around it. When you go into Bryant-Denny Stadium and do what just a handful of teams in the Saban era have done, you deserve considerable kudos. They not only won the game by double digits, they dominated the game. This game really should have been a much bigger beat-down.”

Finebaum’s top 4 after Week 2 are No. 1 Georgia, followed by Michigan, Texas and Florida State.

“Texas and Florida State have snuck in,” he said. “I know a lot of people are asking about Ohio State and Southern Cal. They’re right outside of them. What Texas did to Alabama on plays like this is simply unbelievable.”

Finebaum recalled being in Tuscaloosa on Saturday morning and how Alabama coach Nick Saban was “very nervous” and “very agitated” about the depth and injuries in the Alabama secondary, and Finebaum said that was “prescient.”

“That’s where the game was destroyed last night, of course other than the line of scrimmage, and other than the lack of discipline again by Alabama,” he said.

Finebaum also addressed the hot story in college football — Colorado.

“I realize Nebraska is not a Florida State or an Alabama or a Texas, or even a Georgia,” he said, “but they’re still a respectable team, although you can’t ever tell at the end of games. But what Colorado did yesterday was send a clarion call out to the country that this is not a fluke and in many ways they’re starting to remind me of a school last year that went all the way to the national championship and that is TCU.”