{"id":73777,"date":"2025-12-03T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73777\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:31:07","slug":"hunter-yurachek-explains-texas-exclusion-from-the-cfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73777\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Yurachek explains Texas\u2019 exclusion from the CFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The debate around why the Texas Longhorns are at No. 13 in the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burntorangenation.com\/texas-longhorns-football\/98610\/texas-longhorns-college-football-playoff-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> on Tuesday and behind two teams that they beat and two more teams that they lost to continues, with scheduling ramifications for major programs around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Are the Longhorns firmly on the outside looking in?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not according to Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek, a member the College Football Playoff committee, in declining to officially eliminate Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So consider head coach Steve Sarkisian\u2019s program merely effectively eliminated as Yurachek pointed to the Florida loss at the biggest factor in the team\u2019s No. 13 ranking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe committee has a great deal of respect for TExas and they\u2019ve played an incredible schedule. They\u2019ve got four team they played in our top 10. They beat OU on a neutral field. They just beat Texas A&amp;M at home this past weekend. They lost to No. 1 Ohio State and lost to No. 3 Georgia,\u201d Yurachek <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.x.com\/AnwarRichardson\/status\/1996037358698070336\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBut one key stat this week in the teams ranked in our top 15, there\u2019s 17 total losses for those teams, 16 team of those losses came against teams that are currently ranked or have been ranked in our top 25 this year. The only loss to an unranked team was Texas\u2019 loss to Florida at Florida, and really Florida dominated that game, held Texas to 50 yards rushing, two interceptions. So it\u2019s not that Texas played Ohio State, it is Texas\u2019 loss to Florida that\u2019s holding them back now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate around why the Texas Longhorns are at No. 13 in the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-73777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-longhorns-football","11":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73777","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=73777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}