After advancing past the first round of the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff with a double-digit win over the 12-seed Clemson Tigers, the five-seed Texas football (12-2, 7-1 SEC) are set to face the four-seed Arizona State Sun Devils in the Peach Bowl in the quarterfinals.
Texas will be playing in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the second time in the last month. Head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns played in Atlanta in the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 7 against the Georgia Bulldogs, resulting in an overtime loss for Texas.
This will be the second-ever meeting on the gridiron between Texas and Arizona State for the second-round Peach Bowl in the Playoff on New Year’s Day…