BYU
Miami
Notre Dame
Alabama
Florida State
SMU
None of these teams are The University of Texas at Austin Longhorns football. Which is my point.
Everyone's looking at all things external, trying to figure out how some other team's actions/results should dictate our outcome.
Winners don't give a shit what anyone else is doing. They look internally and control the outcomes they can control.
Ohio State, on the road, was a 50-50 game against the reigning champions and we lost. Okay.
Georgia is probably the best team in the country and we lost to them on the road in Athens. Okay.
The Florida game was a game that we should have won handily, but we came out flat AFTER A BYE WEEK, played like shit, and lost.
That outcome was OURS alone to control and we didn't do our job, plain and simple.
The Florida game, OUR failure to control the controllable outcome, is why we're not in the CFP. Anybody who doesn't understand that is basically the Steve Sarkisian version of a fan.
Augie understood it. Saban understood it. Kirby Smart understands it. Kurt Cignetti damn sure gets it.