Texas Longhorns Provided State of Texas’ Last Hurrah And no one from the Golden State has made the CFP either. That is the most by far in the country – Baylor, Houston, North Texas, Rice, SMU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Christian University, Texas-El Paso, Texas-San Antonio, Texas State and Texas Tech.Ĭalifornia has seven – California, Fresno State, San Diego State, San Jose State, Stanford, UCLA and USC. There are 12 Texas schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). TCU quarterback Max Duggan looks for a receiver this season at Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. Since its beginning in the 2014 season, the CFP has had exactly zero teams from Texas make the final four. Except for the state’s mark on the four-team College Football Playoff. Texas is also known for some of the biggest recruiting cheating scandals in NCAA football history, particularly in the 1980s at SMU, which received the “death penalty” in 1987, and at Texas A&M under coach Jackie Sherrill from 1982-88.Įverything’s big in Texas.
Texas virtually had its own college conference during the days of the old Southwest Conference. It is known for six-man football, high school football with college-size stadiums, the Dallas Cowboys and college football. Texas is the largest state in the United States mainland.
