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Said Texas was the only team that lost to a team that hadn’t been ranked in the CFP committee’s rankings. And used it as a major justification point for Texas’ exclusion. This is a flat out lie. Bama lost to FSU, that had never been in the committee’s rankings AND was proven on the field to be a worse team than Florida. Yurachek is Arkansas’ AD. No anti-Texas bias there, I’m sure! That nice little tidy statistic is a flat out lie. Texas should honestly demand that Yurachek make a public statement correcting his initial statement to Texas was one of TWO teams that lost to a CFP unranked team. It actually drastically changes the picture. Not saying it gets Texas in, or that Texas should be in. But the CFP chair should NOT!!! be issuing untruthful statements about Texas. And if they are truly misinterpreting and misrepresenting data this badly, those committee members should be replaced.

Playoff revenue should be distributed 100% equally to every FBS team in the country imo. Idgaf about the bowl revenue

If you’re interested in the playoffs, you should be interested in two things as well (in addition to many others): 1) revenue for the football program 2) extra practice for the players The bowl games provide the second, and I think what I’m proposing could provide both #1 and #2 and more of #1 than the bowl game

Again, the TV revenue from the Citrus Bowl is like $8 to 10 million split 16 ways. Max $625K. Practically every bowl eligible/non-CFP team from the SEC would be better off doing what I'm talking about. It actually makes sense, too, since no one has spring games anymore. None of the bowl games that people care about historically are available for non-CFP teams anymore. The Poptart, Citrus, Gator, Texas, Sun, etc can go the way of the dodo as far as I'm concerned.

And? I'd be perfectly fine with Texas opting out of a bowl entirely. Livestream the game on the Texas youtube channel for all I care (or OTF!). Blake could do the play by play with Bobby as the color commentator. Gerry could be the sideline reporter, The All American Guy! I would personally pay $200 to go to the game and partake in Bevo Blvd, etc one last time for the season. Get some autographs. Texas could very well make more money from this than the bowl game. What's the difference between this exhibition practice and the exhibition practice vs Michigan with many of our starters sitting out?

Not if BYU wins tomorrow. Which I know is low odds, but I'm holding out hope and rooting for it.

I would rather the talking heads to not have that talking point. First off, I don't want to hear it. Secondly, whether you think so or not (you'd have to have your head buried in sand to not), people have biases against Texas and narratives that they're just waiting to be "proven right" (while ignoring any data that conflicts). Current and future committee members are NOT immune to developing biases. Yeah, past season results are not part of what is explicitly written in the selection criteria. I think you would be a fool to think that they don't look for things like bowl outcomes to justify the decisions they make in rankings. And whether they feel like they made a mistake in a prior year COULD theoretically make them think twice the next year. On top of that, I do think post bowl rankings matter. I would love for Texas to have 10 wins and be ranked in the final top 10 at the end of the season. Which could happen if we play #10 ND or even #11 in a bowl game and beat them. It won't happen by beating #19 Michigan. Every positive data point matters to this program and therefore matters to me. Being able to say "we finished in the top 10 the last three years" sounds a lot better to me than saying "we finished in the top 10 in 2023 and 2024 but not 2025". So yes, I think preserving the possibility of finishing in the top 10 matters, whether you think it does or not.

Yeah just saw an article on the athletic about how "fearless" of a passer Mateer is. Incoming: 5 INTs vs the first good defense he faces in the CFP.

Yeah I'm pretty sure the high end guys will want to go to Oregon, LSU, Ohio State, even Penn State before going to the Aggies.

That NC winning coach is fool's gold. Lucked into Jameis Winston. Did not "develop him"- less than one year of development factored not at all into what Winston was in 2013, which was lightning in a bottle. Fisher ran FSU into the ground and got ran out of town by Dabo Swinney. I do not fault the Aggies for not doing anything with that "NC winning coach". I DO fault them for being idiots for hiring him. And that recruiting class was just an amalgamation of recruiting points. The whole thing was just bolstered by a boatload of highly rated DL. Takes more than a good DL obviously.

Same. Though, as long as they have Marcell "One Read" Reed running the offense I feel fine. Plus, the losses they will have on the OL as well as losing Concepcion and possibly Craver SHOULD negate any advantage getting a better OC would have. We DEFINITELY need to out recruit TAMU on the OL in the portal. It will be a major failure if TAMU is better than us on the LOS on either side next year.

Do you think concessions don't NET Texas money every time they have an event? I think you think Texas gets more money from participating in the Citrus Bowl than they actually do. That is not the benefit. The benefit is the extra practice and playing time for backups, which this scenario could also achieve.

The payout for the Citrus Bowl is on the order of $8 to $10 million, which is split 16 ways between conferences. I would be shocked if the Texas couldn't come out with better profit from this.

For an average ticket price of $200 for a low estimate of 80,000 people, that is $16 million before sales of anything else. Texas couldn't put on a football game (a la enhanced spring game, which they used to do for free) for $16 million?

Hell, fans of most teams in Texas not located in Lubbock or College Station would probably rather go to a game in Austin than wherever their teams are going bowling (if they're going bowling at all).

Love to see it. It's cold up there in Ohio and Michigan. The Buckeyes and Wolverines need some heat in their lives.

I would rather see Texas play a team like Texas State, Houston, TCU literally any Texas team in Austin than see Texas play an exhibition vs a mediocre team in a bowl game. If it's about getting backups reps, it would scratch that itch. It could be a celebration of the season at home and would cater to many more fans than the bowl game. Probably more revenue for Texas. Fans could make it a point to show up to the game out of financial support of the team (like the first game of the season against a nobody, which are actually some of my favorites to go to). And the added benefit relative to the first game of the season is it wouldn't be hot as hell. Could keep the party going on all day in Austin. Screw exhibition bowls against mediocre teams.

More seriously, a loss by Texas in a bowl game, especially to a sorry team like Michigan, WILL be used as justification for their exclusion in the CFP. Even if 50% of our team opts out while 100% of Michigan's team opts in. Happened to Bama in 2024 and FSU in 2023.

With as illogical as the CFP committee is, they will probably use a Texas loss to Michigan in a bowl game this year as a tiebreaker next year should it come to that.

You don’t say? I actually thought losing to Florida was a good thing, so thanks for clarifying

Wow, I didn’t realize not losing to UGA would have made us 10-2 with another top 10 win! 😂 The annoying thing is that people and the CFP committee don’t take into account the actual way the game was played, just the final score. And they’re not even consistent with it. For instance, the following combination: 1. Texas had the ball with the ability to tie both the OSU and Florida games late in the 4th quarter. But we got “dominated” 2. Texas was up on Vandy by 24 pts in the 4th quarter before starting to play prevent with backup DBs and run the clock out. Vandy was down by 10 pts until 33 seconds left. The last they had the ball with the opportunity to tie the game was their first possession, a 4 play 4 yard drive ending in a fumble. But that’s a “close game” and not “domination”

Happier with him going to Ohio State than Oregon. F- Oregon

The more I think about it, the more I really want Texas to opt out of a bowl unless it’s ND or Miami

The annoying thing is Michigan will probably have way fewer opt outs than us. Same crap happened when they played Bama. Same for the 2022 UW game But we’ll have to hear it forever if we lose to Michigan. This is the last opportunity for this Michigan team to get a ranked win this season