The reason the committee will put TX in and leave Bama out is that TX had a 27% chance of winning out, the lowest of any team in the top 8 this year. TX may have the COA.
Actually, I think that was Washington. Washington played 8 teams in the top 25 at some point this year, including Oregon twice (ranked 8 and 6) (then add Arizona (finished 14), Utah (ranked 18 when played), USC (ranked 20 when played), Oregon State (11 when played, finished 21) and WSU (ranked 13 in week 5). Most of Washingtons opponents had a double whammy of playing Oregon the week after playing Washington, so that pushed a lot of them down the rankings at the end of the season, but Washington still beat 4 teams in the final top 25.
Texas played 5 ranked opponents all year (Alabama 3), Kansas (24), Oklahoma (12), Kansas State (23) and Oklahoma State (18).