The SEC championship matchup will be decided today, with four teams having a serious chance of meeting in the title game. Georgia has already clinched its spot in the game, having beaten the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Friday, and with Texas A&M already out of contention, having mysteriously lost to the Texas Longhorns on Friday, and in doing so, blowing away any chance of making the SEC championship game.
The schools left are Ole Miss and Alabama. Alabama is the school that has a leg up in this race, as they only need to win Saturday’s game to be able to advance. Ole Miss has already won its game on Friday, beating the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the “Hotty Toddy” rivalry.
It’s all up to what happens in the Iron Bowl later today.
How can Texas make the playoffs?
Everyone had already given up on the Texas Longhorns as a potential anything this season, and they came to turn things around with a victory over the No. 3 Texas A&M Aggies in the last week of the season. For one, this eliminated the Aggies from the SEC championship game picture entirely.
Now, fans are wondering, could Texas rise like the Phoenix and make it to the College Football Playoff? The answer is complicated, but in short, they could, but it’s an uphill battle.
It’s entirely down to how many spots they can climb in the final CFP committee rankings after the championship games. While impressive, their victory doesn’t necessarily put them high enough for them to qualify.
It will depend on how many at-large bids remain after the round of championship games. If the lower-ranked teams in the SEC, Big and Big 12 (Alabama, Ole Miss in the SEC’s case, Michigan or Oregon in the Big Ten’s, and BYU in the Big 12’s) win the championship games, the Lognhorns would have to be among the top nine teams to qualify. Will the committee rank them that high?
If in turn Georgia wins the SEC, Ohio State or Indiana the Big Ten, and Texas Tech the Big 12, they would have to rank at least No. 10. A bit more breathing room, but not much considering they ranked No. 16 in the latest rankings.
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