Was tonight the final nail in the coffin of the University of Texas Longhorns’ 2025 season? Time will tell, but after a 35-10 loss between the Hedges against the Georgia Bulldogs Saturday night, they are no longer in the driver’s seat.
Entering Week 12 the Longhorns were ranked 10th in the nation. They were 7-2 with a bad loss to the Florida Gators in Gainesville, and a hard-fought Week 1 loss to the best team in America, the Ohio State Buckeyes.
That being said, the Longhorns still have a case to be made. They are finishing the season with three SEC games. Of those three, Georgia and Texas A&M are both ranked inside of the top five. That makes the loss to UGA much more forgivable.
“Texas is still on the bubble even though it could appear to be in a safer spot this week,” wrote ESPN’s Heather Dinich prior to the loss at Georgia. “If Texas finishes as a three-loss team, it’s conceivable it could be ranked in the top 12 but would likely face a similar situation to Alabama last year.”
Finishing as a three loss team is a lot easier said than done, however. They will have to beat a coach-less Arkansas in Austin, then knock off the undefeated Texas A&M Aggies in the final game of the season.
There is some bright side however, as Dinich points out while labeling Texas her “last team in.”
“With the ACC and Group of 5 champions currently outside of the committee’s top 12, it looks like the No. 11 and No. 12-ranked teams would be excluded — and that’s probably the ceiling for a three-loss Texas team,” Dinich concludes.
Texas Officially Eliminated From SEC Contention
Though their playoff hopes aren’t officially dead, their SEC title hopes are.
The Longhorns are still searching for their first conference championship title since joining the SEC just last year. But with just two losses in conference, they are officially eliminated from contention.
As of the end of Week 12, four teams remain alive in conference: undefeated Texas A&M, one-loss Alabama, one-loss Georgia, and one-loss Ole Miss.
Texas was Georgia’s last conference opponent, while Alabama will have to beat their bitter rival Auburn to punch their ticket. Ole Miss is on the outside looking in due to being on the losing end of a strength of schedule tiebreaker with the Crimson Tide.
The Silver Lining For The Longhorns
The silver lining for Texas is that they lost early.
It would be a sensational season had Texas ended November with two top five victories, but it didn’t shake out that way.
If they can beat the higher ranked team in Texas A&M, the combination of the handing the Aggies their only loss and doing it in the final week of the season will create a serious case for the final playoff bid.
Had UT beat Georgia then lost to A&M, their resume would be ever so slightly weaker.
The Longhorns always had to win one of the two, if they can right the ship they lost the right one.
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