Texas/OU SEC Reality check 2024, The Beginning

I'll bump this first.
If Texas or OU win in their first year in SEC competition, they had easy SEC schedules. If they don't win, it was the "Grind of the SEC" that did them in.

The stadium thing is true though....

UGA v Texas will be massive.

And its spelled Texsa

Texas and OU are both powerful programs that are capable of top 5 finishes year in and year out.

There will be a new pecking order but you will have to field truly exceptional teams to challenge for top 3.

Time will tell, looking forward to seeing it play out. We all know this is a step up in competition.

Texas has a relatively easy schedule this year. Call it luck of the draw or whatever you will.
But yes, the talent is much better across the board, and your RB depth has just been thrown in the trash for the season. You will need to have a running game in this league.

There are some question marks on defense for your squad as well.

Ou will feel it, but UTx got basically as sweet a deal as you can get this year. If they aren't playing for the SEC CCG then they should just focus on swimming and golf.

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You two don’t know the grind you are going to be in. The 11 game season will be brutal by the 8th game. And it won’t get any easier. By the end of the season your team will be worn thin.
But don’t take my word for it. You will see.

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Blah blah blah. You are living in the old days. Kids nowadays are conditioned year round unlike older times. They will be fine. Its not wearing down that will hurt rather injuries. And more injuries happen in practice than games. Most teams have some depth as well.

And using your logic this also works both ways. Every SEC adds either OU or tx so thats extra wear on them. And without divisions there is no hiding like it used to be in one div.

Every team regardless of conference has injuries. There is no “wearing down” there is injuries or healthy.

OU will face 6 ranked SEC teams and this is more than any SEC team has ever faced in their history prior to this year (conf games only). We are gonna lose games and it has nothing to do with wearing down it has to do with quality of schedule. But its not typical either.

We just happened to get the short schedule straw because of our record the past 11 years. And tx got lucky because they sucked those same 11 years. One of the few times in life it pays to suck, but tx sucked and got the easy schedule.

Well OU got a much tougher slate so they will struggle more.

It’s not so much that any one game is that much tougher, it’s the 11am @ Fayetteville and they are jacked to the gills the week after you had an emotional game against Florida, and the next week you’re away again at Bama.

It’s a grind, they’re are way fewer trips to Ames on the schedule or sequences where you play Kansas, Texas Tech, and West Virginia all in a row. You’ll find out even in years when Auburn is a 4 or 5 win team, going in to JHS and getting a win takes a lot out of you.

If they don't fix the opt outs it might as well go back to a vote of who the press thinks is best.