"It would be a disservice to our sport if this team is not a playoff team." Steve Sarkisian made his case for why No. 16 Texas should be in the College Football Playoff 😤

TEXAS IS … 🤘🏻ONLY team to beat 3 AP or CFP Top-10 teams at time of game 🤘🏻ONLY team with 2 wins over teams currently ranked in CFP Top 10 🤘🏻ONLY team with 3 wins over current CFP top-15 teams 🤘🏻FIRST team since LSU (2019 National Champs) to beat 3 AP top-10 teams in a season

I think we have you covered… 🤘🏽

Lesson of the weekend Don’t schedule tough non-conference games. It doesn’t matter if you lose on the road, by one score, to the #1 team in the country. When it matters most - it will be considered an L no matter how many top 10 teams you’ve beaten.

Comparing Texas and Notre Dame Texas: -Win over Current #3 -Win over Current #8 -Win over Current #14 -SoS #6 -SoR #11 Notre Dame: -Win over Current #17 -Loss to Only Common Opponent -SoS #36 -SoR #13

I get a good chuckle every time I watch OU play an unranked team and see “horns down” thrown by fans whenever they get TV time. Always on their mind.

Completely agree. All the talk about Miami, Bama, BYU, Texas, Notre Dame etc when it’s really Oklahoma that should be boxed out.

Seven SEC teams will finish above .500 in conference play. Their records vs. each other: Texas — 3-1 Alabama, Georgia — 2-1 Ole Miss — 1-1 Oklahoma — 1-2 Texas A&M — 0-1 Vanderbilt — 0-2

Wins over current top 15 CFP ranked teams 3 - Texas 2 - Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas Tech 1 - Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A&M, Georgia, Miami, Ole Miss, BYU

The only hope Texas has left is the precedent the committee set in 2023 when they chose “resume” over “record”. Remember what they did? The 1 loss SEC champ ALABAMA secured the 4th & final playoff spot over the undefeated 13-0 ACC champ FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES. Right then &

Guess which fanbases are petitioning the hardest to keep Texas out 🤔

This bama fan has been trying to get Grok to tell him that Alabama has better wins. He’s asked the question a million different ways. It says Texas every time. 😂 Read the thread for a good laugh.

These are the CFP Principles. Texas is at the top of these criteria more than any team on the bubble.

I’ve been pretty reluctant to the “cancel all big OOC games” because I think it’s great for the sport. Plus, there are obvious benefits ranging beyond just a “resume boost” if you win those games. But with other teams in the CFP hunt purposefully tanking their non-con schedule

Sarkisian made it pretty clear at the end of his interview on College Sports on SiriusXM that Texas will not continue to play marquee non-conference games until the committee shows losing them is not a detriment to making the playoff. The 2026 Ohio State game feels very much in jeopardy.

Pretty sweet deal Notre Dame has: -Play 2 good teams, lose both -1 win over a top 25 team -Play a bunch of garbage ACC and G5 teams -Get ranked ahead of a team they lost to Great system in place

The Florida loss is not good. I understand the argument,but I want this to be VERY CLEAR. No matter the Florida result 10-2 Texas that beats Portland St., Montana St., Indiana St., or Ark-Pine Bluff. Playoff team. 9-3 Texas that loses to Ohio State. Not a playoff team.

DO THE RIGHT THING College Football Playoff

Fernando Mendoza is the most likeable person certainly in CFB, perhaps in the entire sport. An NFL team is about to get an absolute unit.

No way Bama should have gotten in over Notre Dame. They only have triple the ranked wins, strength of schedule is only 35 spots better and they lost in a conference title game, which Notre Dame is too chickenshit to join. Absolutely no way.