Head coach Tom Herman has his program sitting at 6-1 and in control of its Big 12 destiny in the midst of its bye week with five conference games remaining.
Win out, and the Horns could play in the Big 12 Championship game and the College Football Playoffs.
Unfortunately, while the polls have rewarded the Horns for going 1-0 each weekend since the season opener against the Terps with a No. 7 ranking, the advanced metrics don’t like Texas quite as much — S&P+ has Texas at No. 43 nationally.
As SB Nation stats guru Bill Connelly wrote this week, Texas is really two teams.