Texas Moves Up to No. 6 in the College Football Playoff Rankings, With LSU in Baton Rouge Next
The Longhorns (7-2) climbed one spot in the second CFP reveal after winning at Missouri — their fourth win over a top-20 team, the most in the country — and now face No. 21 LSU on Saturday.
AUSTIN — Texas is No. 6 in the Week 11 College Football Playoff rankings, up one spot from last week, after the Longhorns won at then-No. 18 Missouri in their first of four November games, On3 reported in its full rankings breakdown.
The arithmetic was tight: Texas moved past Miami, Indiana and Kentucky but was leapfrogged by UCLA and Notre Dame, for a net gain of one place. Georgia leads the rankings at 8-1, followed by Utah (9-0), Alabama (7-2), UCLA (9-0) and Notre Dame (8-1), with Texas sixth, Miami seventh and Tennessee eighth. Kentucky, at No. 11, is the team Texas would face as the No. 6 seed if the season ended today, according to the bracket reporting around the reveal.
The resume argument is Texas's stack of wins. The Missouri victory was the Longhorns' fourth over a team ranked in the top 20 at kickoff — over Tennessee, Ole Miss, Ohio State and Missouri in the current rankings — the most such victories of any team in the country, On3 noted. Working the other way are Texas's two losses, both to teams unranked at the time, which the committee coverage continues to cite.
Next is the hardest road test left: No. 21 LSU (6-3) in Baton Rouge on Saturday, Texas's first trip there since 1953, against a Tigers team coming off a 31-13 home loss to Alabama and hungry to get back in the win column. A fifth ranked win would strengthen the case that the committee is, as On3 put it, valuing Texas's best wins over its worst losses.
