You didn't address my point, though it was an excellent evasion. Congressman-worthy.
A ton of teams have never played for an NC with any losses. Texas is not special in that way. I freely and happily admit that LSU was picked out of 4-5 other two loss teams in 2007. I did say it's not universal, everybody gets the benefit the doubt sometime and that was one such time. I also freely and happily assert that it was so black and white that it left "them" no other options, and had there been any other options, someone else is probably picked. I'll also direct you to the fact that starting about the time the clock hit zero, "they" (and you, apparently) only remember that it was a silly nc, weakest NC team ever, two losses, blah blah blah. Anything but "hey, it wasn't perfect but they looked like the best team that year." Shoot, LSU did pull off a perfect season, and all we get in our conference and elsewhere is "Yeah, but Tua had hurt his ankle previously so he probably wasn't full strength. Gumps were coming back in the second half. They would win a rematch. LSU didn't even have a championship caliber defense for most of the season anyway. They're running game was not even as good as it used to be. They weren't that great outside of Burrow. Look at all the warts." Even a perfect record and virtually every record rewritten can't even help us. What do you ever hear about 2005 Texas? Best NC game ever. VY, legendary performance. Slayed the Trojan beast and obliterated all others. Magical season. I have yet to hear any detraction on that one.
Suits me. I'm just saying, you'll have to find another bit. Angsty paranoia is taken.
Now...if you're asking me to believe the Big 12 has had a major PR problem the last little while and Texas suffers because of it, I not only agree but also would think that's obvious. But overall, I am confident that if you add up all the ways you think Texas was done wrong through the years and stack them against all the ways I can show LSU was done wrong through the years, all you have to say is "blue-blood" and I think you know who has the bigger file of grievances.
btw, blame OU for the small time frame that Texas has "endured" whatever it's endured. It's their fault that the Big 12 champion keeps representing poorly in the outside world. Speaking of, I wish to amend an earlier statement in the realignment thread about having only two games of history with OU, 1950 and 2003. Apparently we played them in 2019. After being reminded of this, I do in fact remember that game, but remain unconvinced that was actually Oklahoma.