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Paul Finebaum has a point on why Saturday isn’t a must-win for Texas

This weekend’s clash with the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs is going to be massive for the No. 10 Texas Longhorns. Steve Sarkisian’s team is 7-2 (4-1 SEC), and it’s been widely accepted that two losses seem to be the cutoff for College Football Playoff consideration. The Longhorns finish this season at Georgia, against Arkansas and then against No. 3 Texas A&M at home, so there’s very little room for error the rest of the way. With that said, SEC expert and long-time ESPN talking head Paul Finebaum does believe there’s a way the Longhorns can lose this game in Athens and still find themselves in the CFP when all is said and done. They’d have to walk a tightrope, but there is one scenario where a loss to Georgia followed by two straight wins could still get them in. “Yes, if, of course, they beat Texas A&M at the end of the season,” Finebaum said on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Wednesday when asked whether or not Texas could make the CFP with a loss to Georgia (h/t On3). “That would be one of the best wins of the yearRead More

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