I did a little exercise. To rank game difficulties, for Texas, OU and TAMU, I took the opponents’ Sagarin Predictor ratings, and subtracted or added three points for home and away. This is to serve as a rough metric for how tough a scheduled matchup is.
For Texas, there are only three games of reasonable difficulty. The toughest appears to be UGA (88.92), followed by TAMU (86.18) and OU (83.87).
Now, OU really did get screwed on schedule. Their game this weekend, Tennessee, has a rating of 84.99, higher than Texas’ third most difficult matchup. What sucks for OU is that this weekend’s matchup looks to be their sixth most difficult, with @LSU, @Mizzou, Bama, @Ole Miss and Texas all looking more difficult. (You hate to see it). @Auburn rated just a tick lower than Tennessee.
TAMU really got an easy schedule. Their toughest game is hosting Texas, followed by @Auburn (OU’s seventh toughest), hosting Mizzou and @S. Carolina. It really is an easy schedule.