The Texas Longhorns have been lobbying to make it into the College Football Playoffs for the past month, and though they're definitely making a great case to get in, they likely won't be included.
Multiple big figures in the college football world also believe that the Longhorns should be a top 12 team in the CFP rankings, the most recent being FOX Sports' Joel Klatt:
"Texas is being punished for scheduling Ohio State ...the committee is telling us, based on where Texas is ranked...that they should not have played that game and they should have played Texas State and won the game by 20"
"Texas is being punished for scheduling Ohio State .