re: Texas and Oklahoma...SEC stadiums vs Big 12 "stadiums"

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Difference is for all those SEC "big boy" stadiums" is they finally get to see a real "big boy" visiting team aside form Bama, Georgia and LSU. All the remaining SEC teams are coattail riders.

Texas and OU are going to make a lot of SEC chest pounders very unhappy next season.

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I have no doubt both Texas and OU will have a lot of success in the SEC including in some of the toughest SEC road environments and will compete for SEC titles almost every year.

I do think the larger SEC road environments will be more difficult to win at for them though. Case in point...I'll point to the 2003 Oklahoma @ Alabama game as an example of a road environment that clearly had an effect in a game that Alabama had no business competing in. Alabama was an awful 4-9 team that season while Oklahoma came in as the #1 ranked team in the country that game but needed a ballsy successful fake punt to escape with a 20-13 win.

That was an Oklahoma team that went 8-0 in the conference that regular season against Big 12 opponents outscoring their conference opponents by an average of 42 ppg and 30 ppg on the road. I realize that's a single isolated game that and maybe Alabama played way above its head that one game while that could have been Oklahoma's one stinker game during the regular season so it may have been a one off. That same Oklahoma team did get taken apart by Kansas State in the Big 12 championship too so who knows but they did breeze through their regular season schedule that season.