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Ed Zachery

the odds of winning the slog of tough opponents in the playoff and grabbing the crystal football are slim

you can still wear rings that signify a conference championship

with conferences the size of today, it's a bigger deal than winning the Big 8 or SWC

I don't know about that.  Apparently you can have a non-SEC schedule even while playing in the SEC. So if Texas DOES somehow manage to beat A&M, and then beat Georgia a week later, I'm not even sure the SEC office will give the Horns a trophy.

Yeah.  It's going to be remarkable, for whichever team survives the slog through to the end.  Historically challenging schedule, I'd imagine.

I don't know how you'll feel about this since they are your rival but aTm is playing for the highest stakes this weekend nationally.  

Teams like yours and mine obviously want to win their rivalry game but realistically they are in the playoff either way.  A win would be great, but a loss does NOT end the NC chase.  

aTm has a very different situation.  They lost OOC to Notre Dame to start the season and their two SEC losses are to 8-3/5-3 USCe and 6-5/3-4 Arkansas.  If they lose to Texas, they are done.  They aren't getting into the playoffs at 8-4/5-3 with those losses.  However, if they manage to beat your Longhorns they head to Atlanta where they'd be playing for not only a playoff berth but a first round bye.  

The Aggies certainly wouldn't make the playoff with a loss to the Horns and they might not with a loss to the Dawgs so they are basically in a 5 game win-or-go-home playoff starting this weekend:

• vs Texas, win or miss playoff at 8-4
• vs UGA, win or likely miss playoff at 9-4
• CFP Quarter-final as a top-4 seed
• CFP Semi-final
• CFP Championship

A&M might not get the bye if they win the CG.

That is a possibility but I see it as remote.  

The new CFP rankings aren't out yet but in the AP, aTm is #20.  That is well below #11 Boise but winning the CG would require first beating Texas.  The Aggies would climb a LOT in the poll if they pulled off back-to-back wins over #3 Texas and #6 Georgia.  

Boise could finish 12-1 but their only games against ranked teams would be the loss at Oregon and *MAYBE* the two games against UNLV.  The Rebels are currently right behind aTm at #21 but if Boise beats them they would drop.  In any case, Boise wouldn't have wins even remotely comparable to aTm's wins over Texas, Georgia, and LSU.