Michigan's upset win over second ranked Ohio State on Saturday
was definitely a good thing for the UT football team,
who moved up a spot to #2 in the AP
and coaches polls, which is where they'll likely land Tuesday
when the latest College Football Playoff rankings come out.
Of course, going into their rivalry game, there was a
lot on the line for the Horns and Aggies with
the winner advancing to Saturday's SEC Championship game in Atlanta
to face 7th rank Georgia.
After handling their business down in College Station, beating the
Aggies 17 to 7, the 11 and one Horns now
get another crack at Georgia, who handed Texas.
It's the only loss of the season.
The winner of that one gets the first round by
in the 12 team College Football Playoff.
We've come a long way.
That's just, you know, what teams do as, as, as,
as we go on through the season and to be
in the position we're in, we, we had to get
better each each week.
And you know, we're definitely, definitely excited to, to, to
get to play in the SEC championship for sure.
A lot of those guys have been hearing about since
the day that it got announced we were going into
the SEC, that we were going to struggle in the
SEC and that it was going to be hard and
that we're going to come into this environment tonight and
it was going to be the toughest environment in college
football and we wouldn't be ready for it.
So there was a lot of things that we've been
challenged with that I think is have been brewing inside
of a lot of people in that locker room, coaches,
players included.
And so to to do it in the fashion that
we did, that wasn't a gimmick win.
You know, we didn't hit trick plays and things.
We lined up and played good, hard nosed football and
executed and a couple balls didn't go up bounce our
way, but we won the game in a physical manner,
which is what we know we needed to do in
the in the Southeastern Conference.
And so the fact that we're playing that brand of
football today, I think that's why it all came out
of these guys because goal has always been let's get
to Atlanta.
And if we can get to Atlanta, then those other
goals might start to line themselves up for us.