As Notre Dame continues to move forward to make its case for a high berth in the College Football Playoff and perhaps host a home game, let’s do it.

Why is Texas giving respect to the top three by the College Football Playoff committee when Notre Dame is just starting to move deeper into the top ten?

Yes, of course there was thatbut the loss of northern Illinois is now an obvious aberration. And yes, it’s fair enough to punish the Irish for their mistakes on September 7, but they also have something that Texas doesn’t have.

A great victory.

CV Texas Longhorn: Where is the victory?

Texas is 9-1 and tops the SEC standings, ranked third overall in both College Football Playoff seeding series. But let’s say this team is called – oh, I don’t know – Indiana instead of Texas. And let’s just say Texas isn’t coming off a great season with a trip to the College Football Playoff.

He can’t be third in the country based on his resume, his performance on the field and who the team played, so really, what is it? Again …

Where is Texas’ truly impressive victory?

In the second week of the regular season, Texas marched into the Big House and bypassed then-No. 10 Michigan, 31-12, and everyone saw it. It was great at the time, but Michigan is 5-5. It’s just a football team fighting for a bowl spot now, like Virginia, Cincinnati, Fresno State, and…

Oklahoma.

The Sooners were 18th in the rankings when they were beaten by Texas 34-3 – and once again, everyone saw it.

Since then, Oklahoma has won a grand total of one game – a 59-14 victory over traditional powerhouse Maine. And now he’s fighting just to be in the bowl game alongside the reigning national champion.

Vanderbilt was ranked when it lost to the Longhorns 27-24 in Nashville, but even with the fun, the Alabama surprise and the wonderful story, having been steamrolled by South Carolina and with LSU and Tennessee for close, it is likely to end. .500.

Should Texas have to beat Texas A&M to make the College Football Playoff?

You remember Texas A&M. This is the team Notre Dame beat in College Station by double digits in week one. She is now 15th in the last round of the CFP ranking. This is what a victory against a ranked team in the College Football Playoff looks like.

Texas doesn’t have one.

Texas is 9-1 and has a date with Kentucky this weekend before closing out the year at Texas A&M on Thanksgiving weekend. When we sit around and hear that Indiana hasn’t beaten anyone of substance this season, why isn’t Texas experiencing the same national dismantling?

If Texas doesn’t win in College Station to close out the year, it will finish the year with two losses and no win over a ranked opponent.

Sure, it’s the all-powerful SEC and the Longhorns, but where do we keep asking the same question, where’s the big win that says Texas needs to be in this first 12-team playoff?

Not all similar records are the same

In a world that screams “you are what your record says you are,” that simply isn’t true when it comes to schedules that some face versus others.

Texas has as many wins as you do against teams that will finish in the CFP Top 25. What about the rest of the SEC’s two-loss teams?

Georgia has two conference losses; but he outscored Texas by 15 in Austin., destroyed No. 20 Clemson to open the season and narrowly dominated No. 7 Tennessee.

Tennessee’s two conference losses were accompanied by a victory against Alabama.

Ole Miss had the most troubling losses of the bunch — Kentucky and LSU — but it also posted a dominant 28-10 victory over Georgia and beat No. 21 South Carolina in Columbia.

As for Notre Dame, yes again, everyone knows they suffered the ugliest loss of any CFP contender, but they beat Texas A&M, Louisville – who will be eliminated after the loss to Stanford, but was 19th in the second round of the standings – and knocked off a Georgia Tech team that handed Miami its only loss. Now the army is undefeated.

This may seem far-fetched since Tuesday night once again moved Texas into third place in the College Football Playoff rankings, but unless the Longhorns win their final two regular-season games, they shouldn’t be assured of participating in the 12-team tournament. .

And if Notre Dame wins its final two games, even if the highest possible seed is fifth, the rankings should recognize how good it has been.

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