Texas Football: 3 most likely bowl game projections for the Longhorns

What will be the postseason slotting for head coach Tom Herman and the Texas football program to round out an up and down 2020 season?

The result for fourth-year Texas football head coach Tom Herman during the 2020 regular season was not as desired heading into what originally looked to be a potent campaign on the Forty Acres. Texas once again held a preseason top 15 ranking in both major polls this year, and they dropped in the final polls post-conference championship week.

Texas found itself in a very different spot between the AP Poll and Coaches Poll to round out the 2020 college football regular season. They sit at No. 19 in the post-conference championship weekend AP Poll. But they sit all the way down at No. 24 in the latest Coaches Poll.

You can view the entirety of both major polls for this week, thanks to ESPN here.

The last game that the Longhorns played in resulted in a 69-31 dismantling of the Kansas State Wildcats on the road in Manhattan back on Dec. 5. But the regular season finale for Texas was supposed to be on Dec. 12 on the road against the winless Kansas Jayhawks. That game was ultimately canceled in the wake of novel coronavirus related issues, this time on the Texas side.

Now on Dec. 20, the day of reckoning is here for Herman and the Longhorns. Bowl matchups are set to be determined to round out the weekend. And since the Big 12 doesn’t look to get any teams into the College Football Playoff, Texas fans likely are not going to be happy with where they land in the end.

Nonetheless, here’s a look into the three most likely bowl destinations for the Longhorns this postseason.