Texas beat 11-1, No. 3 Texas A&M 27-17 in Austin Friday, and immediately the SEC/ESPN hype machine went into overdrive to advance the narrative that the 9-3 Longhorns belonged in the College Football Playoff.
The crux of the argument is that Steve Sarkisian's disappointing preseason college football favorites opened on the road at defending national champion Ohio State and lost 14-7, and (under this theory) they shouldn't be penalized for not achieving a 10-2 season, the theoretical benchmark for making the playoff cut.
The Longhorns are out because they lost three games, to OSU, 3-8 Florida and Georgia.