{"id":367807,"date":"2025-11-09T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367807\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:23:11","slug":"paul-finebaum-makes-case-for-texas-vanderbilt-in-college-football-playoff-after-week-11-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367807\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Finebaum makes case for Texas, Vanderbilt in College Football Playoff after Week 11 chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Finebaum isn\u2019t ruling out the idea of Texas<\/a><\/strong> or Vanderbilt<\/a><\/strong> squeaking into the College Football Playoff<\/a><\/strong>. During an appearance on The Matt Barrie Show, the ESPN analyst explained how either team could reach the CFP.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s say Texas loses at Georgia<\/a><\/strong>. Then, they find the final game of the season is at home against what will likely be an undefeated Texas A&M<\/a><\/strong> team. So, should they get that win and finish 9-3, I think you\u2019re going to have to have a serious argument that they have a spot in there,\u201d Finebaum said<\/a><\/strong>. \u201c\u2026 You\u2019ll have to factor in that Ohio State<\/a><\/strong> game, and that could, that could give them a kick.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd how about Vanderbilt? Are they going to leave Vanderbilt out at 10-2? Now, they haven\u2019t gotten to 10-2 yet because their final game of the year will be at Tennessee<\/a><\/strong>. And that would be a significant victory, even though it would likely be over a 9-3 Tennessee team, it would count for something\u2026 In that circumstance, you could really have some wild debates about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Texas has underperformed relative to fans\u2019 preseason expectations for the Longhorns, they\u2019re 7-2 and 4-1 in conference play. Texas enjoyed a bye this weekend after defeating Vanderbilt 34-31 in Week 10.<\/p>\n

While the Longhorns are likely to lose at least one of their final three games of the season (Georgia, Arkansas<\/a><\/strong> and Texas A&M), they will have the head-to-head matchup over Vanderbilt. Of course, if Vanderbilt concludes the regular season with just two losses, Texas\u2019 win over the Commodores may not matter.<\/p>\n

After all, assuming Tennessee remains ranked into Week 14 and the Commodores win, Vanderbilt would be heading into the postseason with four Top 25 victories. This scenario could create a difficult situation for the CFP selection committee.<\/p>\n

Then again, it\u2019s always possible for Texas and Vanderbilt to both make the CFP, as well. However, that would likely require a team like Oklahoma<\/a><\/strong> or Notre Dame<\/a><\/strong> to suffer an unexpected upset.<\/p>\n

In college football, anything is possible. This past weekend alone, Big 12 favorite BYU<\/a><\/strong> fell to Texas Tech<\/a><\/strong>, while ACC contender Virginia<\/a><\/strong> suffered a stunning upset loss against Wake Forest<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Texas and Vanderbilt have three weeks remaining in the regular season to make their case to the CFP selection committee. Vanderbilt has a bye in Week 12, but Texas will face off against Georgia in a pivotal showdown on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Finebaum isn\u2019t ruling out the idea of Texas or Vanderbilt squeaking into the College Football Playoff. During…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-367807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115522083804761582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}