It's not news to Texas A&M fans that the Texas Longhorns have been given one of the easiest schedules in the SEC this year and last.
The Southeastern Conference is the premier football conference in the nation, of course, but depending on your home and road splits, as well as matchups, you can still get a very easy slate. On that note, only the Missouri Tigers definitively have an easier go of things this year than the newcomer Texas Longhorns— a fact that even Texas fans are starting to recognize.
You would think those fans would know better, though, than to brag about this relatively soft slate of games, however. But that ostensibly is not how those wearing burnt orange have decided to act; instead, they have take the tack of... somehow bragging about it?
Texas fans bragging about softer-than-soft SEC schedule as Aggie fans laugh at them
This is a remarkable observation that frames well the way things have unfolded with regard to scheduling:
According to Coach Sark, 11 of the 16 teams in the SEC are currently ranked.
— Occupy LF (@OccupyLF) September 8, 2025
Impressive.
The only unranked teams?
Florida
Kentucky
Miss State
Vanderbilt
Arkansas
Guess what? Texas plays ALL OF THEM. pic.twitter.com/moP1HY4UpI
Read that again. Texas plays all of the unranked teams in the conference, meaning that while nearly three-quarters of the conference is ranked right now, the Longhorns somehow have less than half of their SEC slate made up of those ranked teams.
Aggie fans, of course, were letting the 'Horns hear it.
Wow first time I’ve seen a longhorn acknowledge they were given the easiest schedule in the history of the SEC.
— Seth Rowland (@SethRowland2) September 8, 2025
2 years with the softest possible schedule and still can’t win the SEC 🫣
— Fightin’ Texas Ag (@ap736363) September 9, 2025
Yet tu fans will cry when you say they were gifted two of the easiest schedules possible the last 2 years
— Sam Dickinson (@aggiedickinson2) September 8, 2025
yup, horns with the easiest SEC slate.
— bdavidsonlamb_ (@bdavidsonlamb1) September 8, 2025
again.
like it was planned.
(current average SEC-only FPI against -- OU gets screwed) pic.twitter.com/fwhRakPaSM
This just serves as a further indictment on the Longhorns if they fail to win the conference once again this year, which seems likely. With their offensive issues and rancid vibes around the program at the moment, their odds just seem to get longer and longer.
It is jarring to see the slate that the Longhorns got compared to that of their fellow newcomers, the Oklahoma Sooners. Every single opponent on the Sooners' conference schedule is currently ranked in the top 25, which is pretty shocking in comparison.
Fans will just have to wait and see if the conference decides to put things right with the new scheduling philosophy next year. If the Longhorns once again get an uber-soft slate like this, there will be a lot of questions circulating about fairness in putting together these schedules.