Like I don't understand the weird narratives around here. I think Texas deserves to be in and is good enough to be in, but the problem is the goddamn format is stupid. Like I said earlier, we have, for all of our waking lives, treated D1 CFB postseason as if it's some kind of special unicorn that needs a cutesie setup no other sport has. It doesn't. It doesn't need a shitty system like the BCS, and it doesn't fucking need a compressed playoff. It just needs a normal ass playoff like every. other. fucking. sports. has.
The argument back in the BCS days against having a playoff at all was that having even one more game would be too much for teams and they would miss too many classes etc, which was obviously bullshit considering D2 had been doing it for decades no problem. Now the national champ will have played 16 games and no one bats an eye about it.
Whoever proposed a 16 team format without G5 participants at all is right on the money. If we had that, then there is no discussion whatsoever. Texas would be in and we'd all be talking about who was favored over who, who is getting the most favorable matchups, etc etc instead of this nonsense conversation.