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Guess who's upset about UT's schedule?  THIS GUY: 

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It is not difficult at all to see that Texas has the easiest schedule in the SEC in 2024
There's been a lot of debate over who has the easiest schedule in the SEC in 2024 over these last few weeks. There have been a lot of names thrown around, with some even accusing Texas A&M football of benefiting from an easier slate than normal.


And while it is true that the Aggies don't have to deal with Alabama or Georgia this year—or, for that matter, Tennessee—there is no one (at least, no one who should be taken seriously) who can contend with a straight face that they have the conference's easiest slate.

There is, actually, a pretty straightforward answer to this question.

No, it's not Ole Miss, despite that pillow-soft non-conference schedule.


Neither is it Missouri, even though their out of conference games were possibly even easier than what Ole Miss dealt with.

The simple answer is the Texas Longhorns.

The Longhorns are dead-last in KFord's schedule difficulty metric, which is an all-in-one measure that uses each team's statistical profile to determine how many wins the no. 12 power-rated team would be expected to gain against a given schedule.

This is a smart way to measure schedule difficulty, as it includes factors like home vs. road and compares using a constant rather than random variables.

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As you can see from the above chart, though the Longhorns are only 35th in the nation in schedule difficulty, that's good for the last spot in the SEC. Texas A&M football, for comparison, is 17th in the nation in schedule difficulty.


This has to do with a number of factors, in my mind. First, I think the shuffle of strength in the middle tier of the SEC—Kentucky looking awful and South Carolina formidable, for example—as well as Michigan's complete nosedive. The Wolverines were ranked when Texas played them, but they are more likely than not to finish 6-6.

Though the Longhorns do have two tough teams on the schedule in Georgia and Texas A&M, they didn't even have to play a road conference game until November—and that was against Vanderbilt. The Bulldogs are a tougher single team than many above the Longhorns in this ranking have played, but the sum of the rest of the schedule really bring them down.

Longhorn fans love to argue with numbers they don't like, so while I'd enjoy this being the end of this discourse, I'm sure it won't be. Regardless of their feelings, though, the numbers tell a pretty convincing story here.

 

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50 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Guess who's upset about UT's schedule?  THIS GUY: 

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No shit you look (talking to Graham, not the poster).

 

SEC told everyone that the next two seasons schedule me would be set according to the last 10 or so season’s results.

 

This coincided with one of the worst 10 year stretches in Texas football history.

 

 

ETA: it doesn’t help that Aggy is a shit team. Pull your fucking weight and Texas SOS wouldn’t be all that bad after that game (they won’t).

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On 11/14/2024 at 11:46 PM, TheBryMan81 said:

Kiffin complaining that they don't get enough night games at Ole Miss.

A&M is getting several (ND, LSU, USC, AUB, NMSU, probably UT)...Elko apparently threw out some one liner about trading one of those night games to Ole Miss.

Why no night football games in Oxford? I know for baseball, they can't do it because all the fans in the white sheets and hoods obscure the ball.

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Somebody made the point earlier about the folly of comparing results against a common opponent. I tend to agree.

However, when you have three such comparison points and they tell a common story, I think you are safer to draw some conclusions:

vs Miss State:

aggy (road) W 34-24

Texas (home) W 35-13

 

vs Florida:

aggy (road) W 33-20

Texas (home) W 49-17

 

vs Arkansas

aggy (neutral) W 21-17

Texas (road) W 20-10

 

Not huge differences, game site considered, but they all point firmly one direction. And certainly, there is nothing that would (cough) justify (ahem) ranking aggy ahead of Texas.

Unless you are a moron.

Or a troll.

Definitely one or the other.

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Just now, TrashMaster G said:

They ain't losing to Las Cruces High School.

Um, well see, um.

NM State athletics marks: Official marks of Pistol Pete, the NMSU mascot, and an Aggies wordmark, all with TM. What items are appropriate for “official use” of NMSU marks?

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22 minutes ago, troph said:

Of course A&M has a tougher schedule, they play #3 Texas, Texas on the other hand plays #15 A&M. 

They also compare schedules before some of these SEC teams still play power houses like New Mexico State, Murray State, and Massachusetts. Yes we played our OOC schedule earlier then y’all.

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On 11/13/2024 at 12:12 AM, Bevoette said:

One thing I noticed about Aggies is they have some dirty mother fucking players! We need to be prepared for them to do whatever it takes to win how that one jackass Turner after trying to start shit with LSU before the game and then continue to do shit during the game needs to be suspended.

Shemar Stewart is a dirty motherfucker. I usually never wish injury to a player, but I hope his career is career ending. 

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On 11/15/2024 at 3:00 PM, coachherman'sgrill said:

If y'all don't want to be buried under DKR like MisterJones at aggy, then you're wrong. And neither do I not know anything or care about Nick McKenna but he sounds like a prick:

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He'll be buried with Jimmy Hoffa. No one ever thought to look under that shitty stadium for Hoffa. No one oder thinks of them, anyway. 

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2 minutes ago, OU Sucks said:

Only took them two months to go from "TU is gonna lose so many games because SECSEC" to "OMG, their schedule is so easy!!!1".

Aggy is right.  It actually just really doesn’t mean that much to us.

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