Texas vs. Clemson Playoff Preview: Can Texas Cover 11.5?

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00:00Let's get to our second game of three on Saturday. In Austin,

00:07it's the five-seed Texas in the bid stealer of the bunch. But

00:11despite winning the ACC Championship to earn that

00:15automatic berth to the college football playoff, no team, no

00:19coach has more experience ever in the history of the CFP than

00:24Clemson and Davo Sweeney as the twelve seats. You know, this is

00:28our largest spread of the opening round. It is the only

00:31number that is double digits plus. It's eleven and a half in

00:35favor of Texas. You look at the over under in Austin. Also,

00:40fifty-one and a hook. How do you approach the matchup between

00:43the Longhorns and the Tigers? It's a real tough game to cap

00:47to be honest with you. Um I I'm not in favor of laying eleven

00:50and a half with Texas. So, it'd be Clemson or pass from the

00:53side perspective for me. But there is a game script where

00:57Texas's defense which we saw is legit and choke out Georgia.

01:01They can do the same thing again here to Clemson. Like, I

01:04mean, in the opener of the of the season, Georgia's defense

01:08is probably the best version of itself all the way back, you

01:11know, 3 months ago. Um you know, limited Clemson to three

01:13points. Texas defense have been better than Georgia's all year

01:15long. There's a game script where where you know, Texas

01:19wins this thing thirty-one to ten. There's absolutely a game

01:22script where that happens. Where the whole thing stays

01:24under. Texas can cover. I think the game script that's least

01:28likely is for this to be a shootout. Like honestly, I

01:31don't know that it is. I mean, a shootout probably would favor

01:33Clemson and how much do you trust Texas's offense at this

01:36point when it was clearly again, not a great Georgia defense

01:39that they just couldn't seem to execute and take advantage of

01:43throughout the entire SEC title game and particularly in

01:46overtime. So, you know, I don't trust this Texas office at this

01:49point and furthermore, I really wanna trust Sark to lay double

01:53digits in these big moments when we've seen him come up

01:56short more often than not in these big moments. It's a real

02:00tall task. I mean, again, it's it's the game that I'm staying

02:03off of but I lean Clemson plus the points.