Texas record against Playoff Teams

[Blue Horn]

Other than the eventual playoff champ, Texas will most likely be the only other team that beat three playoff teams, and beat them handily!  CFB just needs to make a super division of 60 or so teams and stop with the participation trophies to ND, the ACC and the Big 12.  The SEC Championship game does nothing for the conference in the Playoff era.  Just look at the numbers for the Texas OSU game to start the season!  Let’s just have the best play the best and stop pretending that these other teams and conferences that do not value football like we do are at the same level.  Sure they can catch a better team sleeping and pull out a one game upset, but that’s it.  
 

How ironic would it be if Texas doesn’t get into the CFP and the eventual playoff champ is the only other team to beat three play off teams?  And not only did Texas beat this three teams, it did so in convincing fashion in each game.

[Blue Horn]

What I don’t understand is why CFB is the only sport that doesn’t put the best teams in the sport in the playoff.  If this is the best we can do, I would rather go back to the old bowl system and regional rivalries. At least CFB was more representative of the region that you lived in and fueled debate and camaraderie amongst friends and family that went to those schools or had friends and family at those schools.

[alrightalrightalright]

For the sake of giving a few teams a smidge of credit, I'll call potential playoff teams those in the Top 15 of the final regular season AP Poll to include teams on the "bubble".

Record Against Potential Playoff Teams

• Ohio State: 1-0 (Beat Texas) with B1G CG against Indiana remaining
• Indiana: 1-0 (Beat Oregon) with B1G CG against Ohio State remaining
• Georgia: 2-1 (Beat Ole Miss, Texas | Lost to Alabama) with SEC CG against Alabama remaining
• Oregon: 0-1 (Lost to Indiana)
• Texas Tech: 2-0 (Beat Utah, BYU) with Big 12 CG against BYU remaining
• Ole Miss: 1-1 (Beat Oklahoma | Lost to Georgia)
• Texas A&M: 1-1 (Beat Notre Dame | Lost to Texas)
• Oklahoma: 1-2 (Beat Alabama | Lost to Ole Miss, Texas)
• Notre Dame: 0-2 (Lost to Texas A&M, Miami)
• Alabama: 2-1 (Beat Georgia, Vanderbilt | Lost to Oklahoma) with SEC CG against Georgia remaining
• BYU: 1-1 (Beat Utah | Lost to Texas Tech) with Big 12 CG remaining against Texas Tech
• Miami: 1-0 (Beat Notre Dame)
• Vanderbilt: 0-2 (Lost to Alabama, Texas)
• Texas: 3-2 (Beat Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M | Lost to Ohio State, Georgia)
• Utah: 0-2 (Lost to Texas Tech, BYU)

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Interesting Notes prior to Conference Championship Games

7 potential playoff teams have a winning record against this group of competition: Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia, Texas Tech, Alabama, Miami, Texas

4 potential playoff teams don't have a win against this group of competition: Oregon, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Utah

4 potential playoff teams have 2 wins against this group of competition: Georgia, Texas Tech, Alabama, Texas

1 potential playoff team has 3 wins against this group of competition: Texas

After the Conference Championship Games, only 4 teams have the ability to have 3 wins against this group of competition: Georgia, Texas Tech, Alabama, Texas

 

[Atticus]

This Texas team is probably 11-1 with last year’s schedule. 
Ran into Florida on the road at the wrong time with secondary and OL issues. 

Unfortunately it won’t matter, but at least we’ll have a jump on the portal and recruiting like the other teams did last year while we were making our playoff run. 

Lasting vibes for this team into the offseason are positives and “what coulda been” especially if we go dominate a decent team in the bowl game.

[ArizonaLonghorn]

24 minutes ago, Blue Horn said:

What I don’t understand is why CFB is the only sport that doesn’t put the best teams in the sport in the playoff. 

College basketball does the same thing - roughly the top 40-45 teams get in on merit, then there are 20 or so "conference champs" (I forget the exact number) from lower ranked leagues that get a guaranteed spot.  With 68 teams making the field you'd think the bitching about who got left out would be minimal but every year fans of the # 7 (of whatever) team in a power conference, or a good mid-major who lost their conference tournament whine endlessly about how unfair it is that they were left out.

For those questioning the wisdom (and competitive unfairness) of the guaranteed G5 bid - I think the big conferences felt they had to do that to avoid anti-trust lawsuits since the 'little guys' would have almost surely been locked out otherwise.  Big deal, so now there are essentially 11 teams from the P4+ND getting in (unless a real outlier like Duke gets passed over for a second G5 team).

Going to 16 teams would make it better, going to 24 would seemingly leave room enough for almost every even semi-worthy pretender, but I'd bet there would still be teams in the high 20's yapping if left out ...