The No. 5 Texas Longhorns (6-1), after Saturday’s 30-15 loss to Georgia, are only ever one loss away from near disqualification from December’s SEC title game.
Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns enter the Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium before facing off against Georgia in an NCAA college football game in Austin, Texas, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.of tattered undefeated dreams. The Bulldogs went so far as to shift Austin’s calendar from October to December when they left Austin with a primetime win.
“It really feels like, from here on out,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday during his weekly news conference, “we’re kind of in an SEC Championship game.”, are only ever one loss away from near-disqualification from December’s conference title game. In turn, as Sarkisian said, “every game matters to that degree.”And as things pertain to the College Football Playoff? It’s only slightly less drastic. The previous four-team format was especially harsh on one-loss teams.
It’s just a matter of where Texas’ footing will be when the 12th round arrives. The four highest-ranked conference champions will each receive a first-round bye into the College Football Playoff quarterfinals. The remaining eight programs in the field will play first-round games on the higher seed’s campus. Texas, as it stands inmodel, would host currently undefeated Indiana in the first round and play projected ACC champion Miami in the quarterfinals.
Or, to avoid that, the Longhorns could just win the Southeastern Conference Championship on Dec. 7 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.That, as Sarkisian alluded to, may be a more-exclusive ticket than one to the playoffs. The SEC disbanded divisions this season and effectively created a larger pool of would-be conference championship contenders. The Longhorns are one of five teams — alongside Vanderbilt, Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee — with one conference loss.
“We have to put ourselves in Atlanta, right?” Sarkisian said. “If that’s what we want to be, we have to put ourselves there every Saturday, that that’s what we’re competing for.”. This Saturday’s opponent — No. 25 Vanderbilt — doesn’t care much for odds. The Commodores used their upset win vs. Alabama earlier this month to propel themselves into fringe postseason discussion.“It’s a very good Vanderbilt team, man,” Sarkisian said. “Coach Lea has done a tremendous job building this program.
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