Take a breath, Alabama fans.

Joel Klatt, the Fox Sports analyst, made it clear. “Alabama is not going anywhere. Period.”

The college football world has been reacting to the Crimson Tide’s 34-24 home loss to Texas on Saturday.

The Crimson Tide (1-1) has now seen three games slip away late in the past two seasons. Alabama had its 21-game home winning streak snapped along with a 57-game regular-season binge against nonconference teams dating to Nick Saban’s debut season, 2007.

“Those of you who want to bury Alabama, let’s be very honest, if you look a team like Clemson and the way that they struggled with Duke on the road and what they looked like and what Alabama looked like against an elite Texas team, then we need to be honest with ourselves to say like those are 2 different things,” Klatt explained.

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Riley Leonard broke loose from a tackler and sprinted to the open for a 44-yard touchdown that highlighted Duke’s tough and physical performance that shocked ninth-ranked Clemson 28-7 in the season opener for both teams on Sept. 4.

Clemson (1-1) fell out of the national rankings but beat FCS Charleston Southern 66-7 on Saturday.

Alabama (1-1) visits South Florida (1-1) on Saturday with a chance to bounce back from the “first double-digit home loss of the [Nick] Saban era” as Klatt noted.

“Those teams five years ago, they were the preeminent programs in the country,” Klatt said of Alabama and Clemson. “We were constantly asking ourselves, ‘Are we ever going to have a national championship game that’s not Alabama-Clemson?’” Klatt said. “(But) these two programs are not on the same trajectory. Clemson’s trajectory is headed down. Period.

“Alabama may be flat, but they’re not going anywhere.”

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.