Everyone pointing at Texas's schedule and calling it weak hasn't actually looked at how the SEC slate breaks down. The Longhorns miss Georgia and Alabama this season, sure, but they still have to go to Texas A&M and host LSU and Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. That's three teams that finished in the top 25 of SP+ last year. The real trap is the non-conference schedule being so soft it drags down the overall SOS metric, but the conference gauntlet is still brutal. Sarkisian's basket weaving comment was dumb and he knows it, but the schedule narrative is getting warped. Texas plays four teams that won nine or more games in 2025. That's not a walkover.