Greg Sankey walked into a back room in the Georgia press box Saturday night, where a television was playing the end of Oklahoma’s upset of Alabama. A result that only bolstered the SEC’s chances to get five teams — maybe more — in the College Football Playoff.

In Week 12, college football said, "You're going to miss me when I'm gone." The results were consequential enough: No. 4 Alabama went down at home in the funkiest fashion imaginable, No. 5 Georgia pulled off a statement win and plenty of aspiring College Football Playoff contenders -- No.

The No. 10 Texas Longhorns, led by quarterback Arch Manning, face the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs, led by Gunner Stockton, on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025 at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.

Back to Notre Dame. The way it works with the selection committee is that head-to-head results are something of a tiebreaker. The committee judges teams in small groups, and if teams are close, the result of a game between the two is generally supposed to rule the day.

Two teams in Texas sit in great shape for The College Football Playoff. The Longhorns aren’t one of them. It’s come to this.