Opinion: With light schedule, Texas is quickly making SEC friends - or is that enemies?

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Let's begin with the obvious: we're 25 days into October, and Texas still hasn't played a true SEC road game.

We're eight weeks into the college football season, and Texas the wealthiest and most powerful sports program in all of college sports, and the prized jewel of the most recent round of conference expansion will finally on Saturday play its first true SEC road game.

At longtime SEC lightweight Vanderbilt.

Excuse me while I unfurl this doublewide conspiracy flag, wave it wildly and plant it in firmly in the mud.
Or as an SEC athletic director told me this week, "more than a handful" of the conference athletic directors are furious about the Texas schedule and optics it presents. How it looks take a deep breath, Deep South like the Longhorns already run the league.

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Sorry if already posted. I just haven't seen this. This got referenced on "That SEC Podcast..."

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All you have to do is look at the top five or six SEC teams last year (sips play only one) and the bottom five or six (sips play four or five). Zero U got screwed. tu got the easiest schedule in SEC history with no Bama, Ole Miss, UT, LSU, or Mizzou (who everyone thought was good).

I don't think we need to run to the B1G, but we shouldn't be surprised when sippy destroys the SEC, like they did to the SWC and BDF.

Let's thank Vandy for taking care of business!

From... CFP Anger Index: Who should be most angry in Week 13?

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2. Everyone not named Texas in the SEC

Let's state something at the top: Texas is probably quite good. It is, of course, not the Longhorns' fault they joined the SEC and still drew a Big 12-caliber schedule. But facts are facts, and in a conference with six eight-win teams and four more already bowl eligible, Texas has played exactly two Power 4 opponents with a winning record this season. Those games resulted in a three-point win over Vanderbilt and a shellacking by Georgia.

But Texas has one loss, and the rest of the SEC competition has two or three. Is that all that should matter?

Ultimately, winning games is the most important thing, and the committee seems to recognize that with Indiana at No. 5, despite a schedule that might well have included a home game against Bishop Sycamore.

But is it all that matters? If Texas played Georgia's schedule, would it still have a better record? Their head-to-head meeting would suggest otherwise.

Again, it's hardly Texas' fault the SEC rolled out the red carpet in Year 1. But it is up to Texas to impress when the spotlight is on, and since the blowout win against Michigan -- a team vastly overrated at the time -- the marquee moments have been mostly meh, right up to last week's mediocrity against Arkansas.

Ultimately, an incredibly good SEC team -- Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, South Carolina or Alabama -- is going to end up having played a markedly tougher schedule, proved they can hang with the best of the best, and either go on the road for a arduous opening-round matchup or be left out altogether.

(Seriously, how is Georgia the 10th-best team in the country? There's no logical argument.)
But Texas? Even with a loss to A&M, it's hard to see the Horns falling from No. 3 to a place outside the top 11.

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Just more evidence that Sankey was manipulated and screwed everyone in the conference when sippy was brought in. And, their cream puff schedule doesn't get harder next year. They play the same teams. Yes, they go to the hedges for UGA, but they get the feared Vandy and us at home.