The expanded College Football Playoff has only been around for a year, but strength of schedule and quality wins are two primary factors in the selection process and Texas coach Steve Sarkisian believes that's going to come into play for various SEC hopefuls in the coming weeks.

A three-loss, nonconference champion did not appear in the expanded bracket last year, but the Longhorns are one of several teams who could potentially be in that group down the stretch.

"What the committee does with the teams in our conference we'll see, but I know our conference is really deep and really good, probably deserving of more than three teams, I know that much," Sarkisian said . "I think the SEC only got three teams in last year, which is kind of laughable quite frankly, but we'll see what

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