See the difference in your performance against LSU and UCF? You aren’t good enough this year to be in the playoff. Period.
And before you respond that the transitive property doesn’t apply to football (to which I generally agree), then you need to stop talking about how much better you played in a loss to Alabama than Oklahoma did. ??
Oh, and P.S... if you lose to Texas today, don’t rationalize it by saying your team “didn’t want to be there” or that they were upset they didn’t make the playoff. A true playoff caliber team has too much character and mental toughness to allow that to happen.