Will Texas A&M football finish better than Texas this year in the SEC?

Can Texas A&M football end the season better than the Texas Longhorns in the SEC?

This is a huge season narrative-wise for both the Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M football. When the Aggies joined the conference 12 years ago, they were met with no shortage of skepticism after a year in which they underachieved with regard to their win total. They came into the SEC and shocked the world, thanks in no small part to a guy named Johnny Manziel at quarterback.

Fast forward to today, and the Texas Longhorns are joining in very different circumstances. There is a lot of media hype around the Longhorns after they arguably overachieved last year with regard to their win total—the circumstances, in other words, are almost totally reversed.

It's not hard to find predictions for the Longhorns to be one of the top two or three teams in the conference. Coming off of a playoff berth, with Sark's stock very high, most fans take it as a given that the Horns will be SEC championship contenders.

But is that really the case? SEC Mike doesn't seem to think so.

The long, dramatic pause from Paul is pretty great here, by the way. Just classic stuff.

I do agree with SEC Mike that the Longhorns are a bit overrated coming into this year. They struggled severely with many teams that they should have blown out last year, and the overall competition will take a big step up in this conference. Three losses are not hard to see; even four losses is not outside the realm of plausibility. Michigan, Georgia, OU, and A&M are all going to be coin-flip games at best for the Longhorns, and only one of those—the most difficult—is at home.

Navigating the rest of the schedule unscathed is no small task, either. The SEC didn't exactly give Texas a treacherous conference slate, but you can't sleep on Kentucky, Florida, or Mississippi State.

We'll have to wait to see whether SEC Mike's prediction will come true. I personally think he's on to something—I think the Aggies will surprise a lot of people this year, and Texas will be a bit of a paper tiger when all is said and done.