Texas Football: 3 likely bowl game scenarios for the Longhorns

Realistic scenario: Alamo Bowl

Matchup: Big 12 vs. PAC-12

The most realistic bowl game for the Longhorns to land at this point of the season is definitely the Valero Alamo Bowl. If Texas were to get selected for the Alamo Bowl this season, it would be the first time since the 2020 campaign that the Longhorns played in this postseason affair.

Texas made it to the Alamo in back-to-back seasons in 2019 and 2020. In 2019, Texas and former head coach Tom Herman defeated the Utah Utes. And in the 2020 campaign, Texas defeated the Colorado Buffaloes handily in what would be the final game for Herman as the Horns’ head coach.

Moreover, ESPN projected the Longhorns to make it to the Alamo Bowl this season behind what I would assume is an eight-win regular season, implying Texas beats Baylor in Week 13.

If Texas does get selected for the Alamo Bowl this year, it would take on one of the better teams from the PAC-12. At this point of the season, the USC Trojans looks like the only realistic College Football Playoff contender out of the PAC-12.

So that leaves the likes of the Oregon Ducks, Washington Huskies, Oregon State Beavers, and Utah all as realistic candidates to match up with a Big 12 foe in the Alamo Bowl.

ESPN projected either Oregon or Washington to make it to the Alamo Bowl to face Texas this postseason.