Reacting to Texas's No. 5 in the College Football Playoff
On the College Football Playoff Selection Show on Dec. 8, Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian got the five-seed for the postseason 12-team bracket.
Five-seed Texas football to host a home College Football Playoff game at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium
Texas (11-2, 7-1 SEC) will face the 12-seed and ACC Champion Clemson Tigers (10-3, 7-1 ACC) in the first round of the 12-team College Football Playoff at home at DKR in Austin on Dec. 20 or 21.
This is the second year in a row that Sarkisian and the Longhorns have made the College Football Playoff. Last year, the Longhorns made the four-team College Football Playoff for the first time in program history after winning the Big 12 Championship over Oklahoma State.
Despite falling to the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs in the SEC Championship Game in overtime, 22-19, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA, on Dec. 7, the Longhorns still comfortably made the 12-team College Football Playoff.
You can view the entire 12-team Playoff bracket here.
The College Football Playoff selection committee clearly didn't hurt the Longhorns too much for the loss to Georgia in the SEC title game this weekend.
The winner of the Texas-Clemson first-round matchup in the College Football Playoff faces the four-seed and Big 12 Champion Arizona State Sun Devils in the second round. Texas fans have to consider this a pretty advantageous path for the postseason in the Playoff.
Second round games in the quarterfinals of the 12-team Playoff will take place on New Years Eve (Dec. 31, 2024) and New Years Day (Jan. 1, 2025).
Here are the social media and fan reactions to the Longhorns' slotting in the 12-team College Football Playoff for this postseason.
We’re in! 🤘
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) December 8, 2024
Texas vs. Clemson
DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium#HookEm x #CFBPlayoff pic.twitter.com/EnFyFTSKhM
Clemson at Texas!!!!
— Kyle Umlang (@kyleumlang) December 8, 2024
Let’s go#CFBPlayoff
Time for Quinn Ewers to get one back on Cade Klubnik pic.twitter.com/KN5On5rWJy
— Nash (@NashTalksTexas) December 8, 2024
Two Austin native quarterbacks, Quinn Ewers for the Longhorns and Cade Klubnik for the Tigers, will square off in a homecoming matchup in the first round of the Playoff.
Home playoff games at PSU, Texas, Notre Dame, and Ohio State is pretty epic.
— Shannon Furman (@FurmBiz) December 8, 2024
Four blue bloods will be hosting home Playoff games for the first time in college football in the first round of the postseason.
Texas gets the No. 5 seed in the Playoff against No. 12 seed Clemson. pic.twitter.com/PLnUfb2nZZ
— Hook'em Headlines (@HookemHeadlines) December 8, 2024
Guys….Cade Klubnik is coming home to Austin.
— Cole Thompson (@MrColeThompson) December 8, 2024
He’s playing against Quinn Ewers and the Longhorns.
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