The playoffs began last week for the Texas Longhorns’ committed recruits from the states of Texas, California, Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, and their first Hawaii commit will have his first playoff game this week.
Of the program’s 24 total commits between the 2023 and 2024 classes, 19 of them are still playing football. Of the other five, two had season-ending injuries earlier in the year, two played for teams that failed to qualify for the postseason, and the other lost in the first round of the playoffs a week ago.
As with rivalry games, the playoffs are a time when you can throw the records out in a lot of instances, and the results on the field will show which teams are peaking in November and which ones haven’t elevated their level of play, and also will show the difference between teams that compiled gaudy records against poor competition in the regular season and the ones won 6 or 7 games while being tested by stronger competition.