(This story was updated to add new information.)
Update: Texas lost the SEC Championship game to Georgia. The Longhorns will still make the college football playoffs as an at-large team. By beating the Aggies, Texas basically assured itself of a place in the 12-team playoff.
But where will the Longhorns be seeded? Will they host a home game in the first round? The answer looks to be Texas will be a No. 5 seed and host a first round game.
USA TODAY Sports has ran through five of the scenarios that could play out during championship Saturday. They detail two scenarios where Texas loses. In each, UT ends up with the No. 6 seed and would host a game. But all of those models had Texas and Oregon losing their respective conference championship games.
In the USA TODAY rundown, ‘Scenario 4’, the sixth seeded Longhorns would face Big 12 champion Arizona State, with the winner advancing to play SMU in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. Everything stays the same in ‘Scenario 5’, but the Texas-ASU winner plays Clemson.
Both of those scenarios have both Texas and Oregon losing. Both have Oregon as the No. 5 seed. If just Texas loses, which they did, they are likely to get the No. 5 seed in the bracket.