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Inside Week 13: Playoff Dreams, Bowl Scrambles, and Power Shifts Across Texas
Playoff paths, bowl hopes, and conference races define Week 13 for Texas, SMU, Houston, UTSA, and more as Texas football enters its most important weekend of 2025.
Week 13 of the college football season is upon us and there are plenty of stakes on the table for several of the 13 FBS teams in Texas. Six teams – Texas A&M, Texas Tech, North Texas, SMU, Texas, and Houston – still hold chances to reach the College Football Playoff and all six are favored to win this weekend. Programs like UTSA, Rice, Baylor, and Texas State are trying to reach bowl games.
Twelve of the 13 are in action in Week 12 with Texas Tech idle. The state of Texas is a combined 80-51 on the season and a record five teams are ranked inside the AP Top 25. There is a path for 11 of the 13 programs to make bowl games. That’s the kind of year we’ve experienced inside our border.
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