Texas A&M fans can't wait for the final game of the 2026 season, when they will welcome in the Texas Longhorns to Kyle Field in a game where the Aggies will look to take some revenge on Sark for the end of last season. Chances are that this will be a highly consequential game once more for the SEC and College Football Playoff races thanks to everything Mike Elko has done in Aggieland, as well as all of the unearned hype around Texas that will keep them in these discussions longer than they have any right to be.
Thanks to that unearned hype, Texas fans are feeling their oats in a big way right about now— but what else is new for May? All Aggie fans need do is patiently wait until reality comes crashing down on those in burnt orange in about game two or so this fall.
One Texas writer took to X with what is, frankly speaking, a pretty unbelievable take on the difficulty of each team on the Longhorns' schedule. The writer, named CJ Vogel, who writes for OTF— apparently, On Texas Football, but in this case, might as well stand for Oh, That's False (or Obvious T-shirt Fan)— ranked the Aggies as the fifth-toughest game on Texas's schedule.
Texas A&M ranked as fifth-toughest game on Texas's schedule in galling display of ignorance
My ranking of the most difficult games on the 2026 #Texas schedule:
— CJ Vogel (@CJVogel_OTF) May 12, 2026
12) vs. Texas State
11) vs. UTSA
10) vs. Miss State
9) vs. Arkansas
8) at Missouri
7) at Tennessee
6) vs. Florida
5) at Texas A&M
4) vs. Ole Miss
3) at Oklahoma (Dallas)
2) at LSU
1) vs. Ohio State
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This is literally laughable, in the sense that I actually laughed out loud, in real life, when I read it. A visit to Kyle Field for a rivalry game ranked as the fifth-hardest game on Texas's schedule is actually hilarious.
When Texas was supposed to be a world-beater team that every Longhorn fan still swears was on the verge of winning the national championship back in 2024, they came to Kyle Field against a first-year Mike Elko squad— one much less talented than this year— and won by... ten points. You'd think these people would know their own history better.
Vogel will probably have some dig about Marcel Reed ready to go, but that defensive coordinator that flummoxed him in the past two games is now gone, and replaced by the ultimate has-been in Will Muschamp. The entire point of bringing in Muschamp was to play a more aggressive style— and it's those styles that Reed has excelled against. His Achilles Heel last year was teams that played him more patiently!
This simply does not line up with reality. I can accept the Ohio State ranking, as they are the odds-on national championship favorite, but everything after that is questionable even in the very best light. Let's take Bill Connelly's SP+ rankings as an example: the Aggies are the second-best team on Texas's schedule at this point, according to that rating.
LSU is neck and neck with the Aggies, in all fairness. However, Texas has to travel to both places, and if you think that the environment at Kyle Field will be more tame for a visit from Texas than the environment at LSU, then I'm afraid that your grasp on the world may be a little bit tenuous.
Oklahoma is three points worse than Texas A&M, and Dallas is a neutral site. This would have the Aggies even money with Texas in College Station— maybe a half point in favor of the Longhorns— but Texas would be a six-point favorite over Oklahoma in Red River.
Ole Miss is 4.4 points worse than the Aggies— add in the home field factors (the Rebs are going to Austin), and you have about a 10.5-point swing in the projected spread. In other words, if Texas is favored by 10.5 points against Ole Miss in Austin, this ranking says it would be a pick 'em against Texas A&M in College Station.
In other words, this is simply a very bad take.
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