You can keep your 16-team SEC with Texas and Oklahoma on the schedule. I get it, the money is what it is. But when I look at that 2026 schedule breakdown ESPN just put out and I see we got Oklahoma and Texas back to back in October, all I can think about is the Third Saturday in October when it meant something real. Back in the 1992 season, you knew exactly what you were getting. Tennessee was the game that made or broke your year. Auburn was the Iron Bowl and it was the last game of the season like God intended. Now we got Texas coming to Bryant-Denny and I am supposed to get excited about a program we barely have history with? The old SEC was a 12-team league with two divisions and you played everybody you needed to play. The rivalries were built on decades of hate and respect, not on television contracts and conference realignment meetings. I miss the days when the only thing you had to worry about in November was the Barn and the Vols, not trying to figure out which version of Texas or Oklahoma shows up. This new schedule might be good for ESPN's ratings but it ripped the soul out of what made SEC foottball special.