Texas exclusion would break the CFP, Selection Committee flirting with danger

One of the biggest topics in all of college football right now is centered around the Texas Longhorns football team and its prospects of making it into this year's College Football Playoffs.

Though much of social media believes that they shouldn't, for whatever reason, anyone who values the overall health of college football should want Texas to make it. What's the point of even having requirements to get in the CFP if bluebloods can play a cupcake non-conference schedule and automatically get in?

Texas willingly scheduled the best team in America, Ohio State, in 2025 and played them better than any other team has this season. That should 100% mean something to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee. If it doesn't, what's that saying to the rest of the world? The committee should be rewarding schools that play a tougher non-conference schedule, which is something that they've actually said in the past.

The Longhorns have more top 10 wins than anyone else in the country, and though they lost to a bad Florida team, the wins far outweigh the losses here. Texas beat two top 6 opponents by a combined score of 50-23 in 2025 and were destroying No.9 Vanderbilt before a couple of mistakes let the Commodores come back in garbage time to keep the game close.

Everyone already knows how Steve Sarkisian feels about the topic as well after his postgame comments following the Texas A&M upset:

"It would be a disservice to our sport if this team is not a playoff team."

When the updated playoff rankings come out, there should be absolutely no reason why teams like Michigan, Vanderbilt, Utah, or even Miami should be ahead of Texas. Realistically, that No.11 or No.12 spot should be awarded to the Longhorns, depending on the outcomes of the Conference Championship games.