We haven't had the hardest SEC schedule, but if any sip is saying our schedules is easy, that's really rich. After 2 full seasons in the SEC, they haven't played Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Tennessee, or LSU.

Besides playing at Kyle last year, their road games have been Vandy, Arkansas, UF, Kentucky, Miss State, and UGA.

2 tough SEC road games in 2 full seasons. They have probably had the easiest SEC schedule out of anyone.

So when LSU beat Clemson, Clemson was good then and now they are not?

I don't buy the part that the teams we played were better when we played them. The only argument you might have, and I still think it's a weak argument, is that because LSU, Auburn and Florida fired their coaches after we played them that they lost more games afterwards because of that. The other argument, that might be better but I haven't analyzed it, is that the teams we played had incredibly tough SEC schedules, playing a large number of top half teams. For example, S Car played 6 teams in the top half of the current standings and the other 2 were LSU (10) and Kentucky (11). So I would say S Car is probably a better team than their record indicates.

I do however think that the bottom half of the SEC is much stronger than the bottom half of the Big10 when comparing our schedule to Indiana or Ohio State.

I just have to laugh at this weak schedule argument. It literally is tu's and OU's fault that we have the schedule we do this year. Elsewise, we'd have swapped Mizzo and Florida for Alabama and Ol' Miss. and tu for an East SEC team, likely significantly better than tu.

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wangus12 said:

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My only concern is are we 10-0 because we are a truly great team or are we 10-0 because we've played the 7 worst SEC teams.

Our worst 3 games have been against the bottom 3.

I just don't want us to end up getting embarrassed on national tv like what almost happened today. Like what happened to TCU a few years ago.

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Consider this;

Bama best mizzou 27-24 we beat them 38-17
Bama best lsu 20-9 we beat them 49-25

Bama beat USCe by 7 we beat them by 1
Ole Miss beat Florida by 10 we beat them by 17

All that aside, if you've watched this team all season long and you think we aren't for real then you should probably re-evaluate how you judge football

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These comparisons are dumb though… one school played mizzou vs their starting qb and one got a true freshman's first start. If you don't think that matters….

This is why the huge conferences are dumb, every year there will be a schedule darling. The main thing is don't be Indiana and get beat in the playoff game.

The conference championship game dilemma will be solved when the remaining power programs in the Big 12 and ACC are gobbled up by the SEC and B1G. Conference champions will be decided by an in-conference playoff and the winner of each will play for a national championship title.

Not sure how much longer the SEC is obligated to have a CG to appease advertisers and espn, but it's a no brainer to replace that one game with playoffs games.

Waaaaaaaaay more people will watch a college playoff game than a conf champ game.

Last time I checked... we don't get to pick our schedule.

It's done by some magical computer in the SEC office.

Pundits overweight the importance of record when considering a deep conference like the SEC.

Consider the roster composite talent ranking (per 247) of our conference opponents (+ Notre Dame) this year.

#4 UT
#6 LSU
#9 Notre Dame
#12 Florida
#13 Auburn
#18 South Carolina
#22 Missouri
#23 Arkansas
#24 Mississippi State

Our average game has been against a top 20 caliber team. Yes, we avoided a couple of talent rich teams teams (#1 Georgia, #2 Alabama) but we played 4 of the top 6 talent stacked teams in the SEC, and added in #9 Notre Dame for a non-conference game.

The fact that Indiana (#72!) is above us with their soft schedule (and before Georgia and other 1 loss teams) shows that strength of schedule and record in the SEC will doesn't count near as much as it should. I hope we get to settle it on the field.

playing Notre Dame in the non-conference cancels out missing Alabama or Georgia during the regular season

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Let the sips throw out the "A&M only beat the bottom half of the SEC" line all they want it falls apart faster than their preseason expectations.

1. None of those teams were "bottom feeders" when we played them.
Every single preseason projection had A&M staring at four losses: Notre Dame, Arkansas, LSU, Florida, and t.u. ESPN, media, analytics penciled those in as Ls months before the season even started. We also weren't heavy favorites against Auburn or South Carolina. These were toss-ups or uphill climbs on paper, and everyone knows it.

2. It's convenient revisionist history to call them bottom dwellers now.
Sure, they ended up lower in the standings but that wasn't the narrative when the games happened. Except for South Carolina, nobody was expected to be a pushover. You can't go back in time and pretend these were cupcakes just because seasons evolved. If anything, A&M beating them helped push them toward the bottom.

And honestly? The sips should be the last people on earth trying to play the "cupcake schedule" card.
They've been feasting on soft schedumes for years and still couldn't stack a 10-win regular season. Not one. Not with weaker schedules, not with more hype, not with all the preseason love money can buy.

A&M didn't play a cupcake schedule. We played who was in front of us; the very teams everyone predicted would hand us losses and handled business.

So if the sips want to chirp about "bottom half of the SEC," let 'em.
It's the only half of the SEC they'll ever be familiar with anyway.

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Well put.

Sips are a self entitled, insecure lot that cannot stand it when we do anything good because it takes their self absorbed need for attention away from them.

But then at the same time they try to act as if they really don't care about "****". It's all smoke and mirrors in austin for the most insufferable fan base in America.

Let em talk, it's the only thing they really do well.

He referenced FOUR games and you say the comparisons are dumb based on one game on the road where we scored 38 points….. that is dumb.

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He referenced FOUR games and you say the comparisons are dumb based on one game on the road where we scored 38 points….. that is dumb.

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One was a comparison we looked worse in, 7 points in another isn't much of a difference and the other was a rivalry game with a different coaching staff than coached against us.

Comparing games is definitely stupid.

Texas only got to the playoffs last year due to their cakewalk schedule. I am ok with it benefitting us once in what feels like forever. Also, Florida, LSU, and SC were supposed to be good this year.

In the SEC pre-season media poll the rankings were:
1. Texas
2. Georgia
3. Alabama
4. LSU
5. SC
6. Florida
7. Ole Miss
8. A&M
9. Tennessee
10. OU
11. Auburn
12. Mizzou
13. Vandy
14. Arkansas
15. Kentucky
16. Miss St.

From that we were supposed to play 1,4,5,6,11,12,14,16
Texas played 2,6,8,10,13,14,15,16

Our average opponent was then 8.6 and median 8.5. That is a very balanced schedule.
Texas has an average of 10.5 and median 11.5.

So, again the SEC tried to give tu the easier schedule. It just failed. Also, LSU was looking like a playoff team until a few minutes into the 2nd half. We beat them so bad they fired their coach. Also, all these teams if we sucked would have one less loss and one more win.

Source for poll I used is here:
https://www.secsports.com/news/2025/07/preseason-sec-football-media-poll-all-sec-team-announced

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I don't buy the part that the teams we played were better when we played them…...

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Nobody said that. But lsu and Mizzou were ranked when we played them. And it really is more about the concept of if we had LOST those games where would those other teams be? They would certainly have one more win, who knows about the rest.

There are enough common opponent games to draw conclusions about our Ws over teams other teams have played, that is clear and if you look at common opponent teams played and results, aTm does not have to apologize for our schedule.

Regardless, there is another top 10 team in Texas from Lubbock whose schedule would be MUCH harder if they had played State, lsu, FL, and Auburn. Nobody is talking about how JV and shi++y their schedule is….

A previous poster alluded to this, but our pre-season schedule had five top 15 opponents on it. FIVE. It's not our fault they didn't uphold their end of bargain. We didn't rank those teams. The same ones *****ing about our schedule did. **** em.

Another thing those folks fail to mention when citing records is that 7 of those losses come from us.

We don't play Tennessee this year

Don't fall for the easy schedule BS:

Cow barely beat both Kentucky and State.l and arguably should/could have lost one or both.
UT barely beat State.
UGA barely beat UT.
OU barely beat Auburn.
State beat AZ State a supposedly good Big 12 team.
Ole Miss played both Pig and lsu at home and barely beat both (similar score vs Pig as our game).
UGA barely beat FL.
Bama struggled vs lsu at home and got blown out by a bad FSU team.
Bama trailed USC for a good part of their game and scored the game winner with less than a minute left, and their offense only scored 3 TDs which took us all of 10 minutes in 3Q.
Etc., etc., etc.

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Texas only got to the playoffs last year due to their cakewalk schedule. I am ok with it benefitting us once in what feels like forever. Also, Florida, LSU, and SC were supposed to be good this year.

In the SEC pre-season media poll the rankings were:
1. Texas
2. Georgia
3. Alabama
4. LSU
5. SC
6. Florida
7. Ole Miss
8. A&M
9. Tennessee
10. OU
11. Auburn
12. Mizzou
13. Vandy
14. Arkansas
15. Kentucky
16. Miss St.

From that we were supposed to play 1,4,5,6,11,12,14,16
Texas played 2,6,8,10,13,14,15,16

Our average opponent was then 8.6 and median 8.5. That is a very balanced schedule.
Texas has an average of 10.5 and median 11.5.

So, again the SEC tried to give tu the easier schedule. It just failed. Also, LSU was looking like a playoff team until a few minutes into the 2nd half. We beat them so bad they fired their coach. Also, all these teams if we sucked would have one less loss and one more win.

Source for poll I used is here:
https://www.secsports.com/news/2025/07/preseason-sec-football-media-poll-all-sec-team-announced

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What the current standings don't do a good job of representing is how tough a schedule each team had.

For example S Car played 6 of the top 8 teams in the current standings (by my estimation the toughest of all). If S Car had played our schedule instead, what would their record be. I think S. Car is much better than their record indicates and teams that beat them probably not getting enough credit for doing so.

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NyAggie said:

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My only concern is are we 10-0 because we are a truly great team or are we 10-0 because we've played the 7 worst SEC teams.

Our worst 3 games have been against the bottom 3.

I just don't want us to end up getting embarrassed on national tv like what almost happened today. Like what happened to TCU a few years ago.

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Consider this;

Bama best mizzou 27-24 we beat them 38-17
Bama best lsu 20-9 we beat them 49-25

Bama beat USCe by 7 we beat them by 1
Ole Miss beat Florida by 10 we beat them by 17

All that aside, if you've watched this team all season long and you think we aren't for real then you should probably re-evaluate how you judge football

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These comparisons are dumb though… one school played mizzou vs their starting qb and one got a true freshman's first start. If you don't think that matters….

This is why the huge conferences are dumb, every year there will be a schedule darling. The main thing is don't be Indiana and get beat in the playoff game.

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Yeah, I'm not saying those comparisons are the best-all end-all, football us all. About matchups etc…but I do think it's interesting that we've basically had an easier time with teams than top end sec teams have had with those same teams

There is a noticeable trend there outside of the USCe game

Even Georgia almost fell then 27-0 I suburb whereas we controlled the game the entire time vs Auburn; granted, UGA looks like they've turned the corner now and figured it out

Jarrin Jay said:

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I don't buy the part that the teams we played were better when we played them…...

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Nobody said that. But lsu and Mizzou were ranked when we played them. And it really is more about the concept of if we had LOST those games where would those other teams be? They would certainly have one more win, who knows about the rest.

There are enough common opponent games to draw conclusions about our Ws over teams other teams have played, that is clear and if you look at common opponent teams played and results, aTm does not have to apologize for our schedule.

Regardless, there is another top 10 team in Texas from Lubbock whose schedule would be MUCH harder if they had played State, lsu, FL, and Auburn. Nobody is talking about how JV and shi++y their schedule is….

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I think some people are when they start touting "ranked wins" when the teams are no longer ranked - especially if they are not even close to being ranked. I get that if you beat a team they are going to drop, but if they are any good they will re-bound.

We didn't play a bunch of teams with significantly less talent than our team.

Any given Saturday in the SEC.

Understand but that is how it works as if you had lost to them they may still be ranked, who knows. But it is that way for everyone, if you beat a ranked team and they are ranked when you play them, that goes on the record, it doesn't matter if they finish 0-12. When you played and beat them they were ranked.

I don't disagree with what you are saying necessarily, but there is not other way to track it. As well, like I said with the unknown, you just can't speculate. Moreover with the vast disparity in strength of conferences, I could give a F about the comparative schedule of aTm vs TX Technical or whatever trash team comes out of the ACC.

as previously mentioned above...

the SEC office was counting on Florida being good in 2024 and 2025...9-3 or so

and that would have balanced the schedules for A&M, Ole Miss, and t.u.

but the Gators flopped...and that made the schedules look easier for the Ags, Rebels, and sips