ESPN took one last stab at predicting the 12 teams that will make the College Football Playoff, and two Big Ten teams were unanimous selections.

It's August and no games have been played, but that's not keeping ESPN's college football reporters from predicting the 12 schools that will make up the College Football Playoff beginning in December.

If McMurphy’s prediction comes true, it would be the first time in the Steve Sarkisian era that the Longhorns did not make the semifinal round of the playoff. Texas has reached that round both times it has made the CFP (2023, 2024).