College Football Playoff Rankings Tonight: Texas Learns Its Second-Rankings Fate at 8 P.M. Central
The committee meets Nov. 9-10 and reveals its second top 25 Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. Texas goes in holding the No. 7 spot from the first rankings — and a fresh ranked road win to argue with.
AUSTIN — Texas gets its second College Football Playoff grade on Tuesday night. The selection committee's next top 25 will be revealed Tuesday, Nov. 10 at approximately 9 p.m. Eastern — 8 p.m. Central — live on ESPN and the ESPN app, the College Football Playoff announced, after the committee's Nov. 9-10 meeting.
Texas's starting point is strong: the Longhorns opened at No. 7 in the committee's first rankings on Nov. 3, behind Miami, Georgia, Utah, Indiana, Alabama and Kentucky, and ahead of UCLA, BYU, Ole Miss, Notre Dame and Ohio State in the initial top 12.
What Texas has added since is exactly the kind of line its coach keeps citing: a 34-20 win at No. 19 Missouri on Saturday, the Longhorns' sixth straight win over a top-25 opponent by Steve Sarkisian's count, lifting Texas to 7-2. Whether the committee rewards it — and how it weighs the questions raised about the officiating in Columbia — is what Tuesday night answers.
The reveal runs 9 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern on ESPN, the second of six rankings shows this season; the final 12-team field is set on Selection Sunday, Dec. 6. Texas's own next test comes first either way: at LSU on Saturday.
