Pregame Thoughts on Texas vs Washington
The Sugar Bowl gives Texas a stiff test for a chance to play for a National Title
Well, we have finally made it the Final Four of College Football.
And this year, the Texas Longhorns resurgence to the top of college football’s universe will take center-stage in CFP Semifinal No. 2 at roughly 7:45pm central on Jan. 1.
As a side note, I don’t know why they refuse to reference this thing as the “Final Four,” despite knowing that you cannot hear that term and not think about college basketball. It all seems to make too much sense to me, but that is probably the answer, right? No sport has ignored things that make sense quite like college football has.
So, with 2024 being the year that college football playoffs expand to 12 teams and also coincides with major conference overhaul that will, among other moves, put Texas and Oklahoma in their new “forever home” of the SEC, we look to Monday and the subsequent National Title Game as the only college football that remains “before.”
Wow, that run-on sentence said quite a bit, but this sport has a lot happening right now, besides just the games.
(Editor’s note: and that sentence was even chopped down, a ton, in editing).
Alas.
I wanted to put together a pregame piece for this massive occasion and this will follow the format of the Cowboys pregame pieces. That includes huge hat tips to my guys Skyler and Alex who both provided their normal Cowboys preview artwork and statistical matrix for this piece. Also, I will concede that my daily work on the Cowboys puts me in a position to have a much deeper knowledge base, so forgive me if my lineups or injury information for the Longhorns appears a bit detached. It’s only because it actually is.
And with that in mind, here are my Sugar Bowl pregame three thoughts from primarily a Texas perspective: