With their playoff hopes in jeopardy, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is signaling that if the committee penalizes a tough schedule, he’s prepared to fundamentally change his own. A move that could send shockwaves through the non-conference landscape and put one of college football’s most storied independent programs on notice.

“I think we have to. At the end of the day, now we’re going to nine conference games,” Coach Steve Sarkisian said on Dec. 1. “We’ve got to be mindful of the fact that we’ve played five top-ten ranked teams. The next closest team that’s ranked ahead of us has played two. There’s multiple teams in front of us that have played none.”

Miami is the two-loss program sitting immediately ahead of Sarkisian’s roster. It is a win against ranked Notre Dame, and its impact

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