came at a booster event in Houston a week ago.<\/a> Without naming Tech by name, he said \u201cthere\u2019s a team in our state in another conference with a schedule that I would argue, if I played with our 2s and 3s, we could go undefeated, and they\u2019ll probably make the CFP this year.\u201d<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Texas Tech played three games ranked opponents in 2025 on the way to a Big 12 title and two of those games came against BYU. The other was against Utah. The Red Raiders\u2019 only loss of the season before the College Football Playoff was at Arizona State.<\/p>\n
Texas, which lost three regular season games, played five ranked opponents during the regular season and went 3-2 against those teams. Its other loss came to an unranked Florida team. We\u2019re not going to argue that the Longhorns didn\u2019t have a tougher schedule. But it wasn\u2019t miles more difficult.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll also note that the chances of the buyout offer becoming reality are about as good as your odds of winning the lottery. Texas has a home game against Ohio State in Week 2. It\u2019s not going to want to play a power conference opponent the week before the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n
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And Texas State would be left scrambling if the buyouts happened too. The Bobcats already have FCS opponent Incarnate Word on their schedule later in September and teams can only count one win against an FCS team for bowl eligibility. Adding Abilene Christian to its schedule instead of Texas would make a second FCS opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech is trying to get Texas and coach Steve Sarkisian to back up their trash talk. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3231,27,29,28,2426,1769,15828],"class_list":["post-313865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state","tag-texas-tech","tag-the-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}