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I was looking at some of this in relation to someone saying that Notre Dame strategically schedules mid to bad P5 teams. And it reminds you how deeply random this often is.

Like, more than 10 years if you were a big name school, you could’ve scheduled Texas and you would’ve felt pretty great about notching a name-brand win with less work. Look at the ups and downs of FSU on that front!

Feels like they would probably get punished for completely no showing the non-conference.

Should they have scheduled a big brand who turned out to be mediocre or a team that went something like 9-3 instead of the top program in the land, yeah, probably.

Eh, I doubt it.  If Texas had played Akron instead of Ohio State, the Horns would have gotten in this year, with wins over 2 CFP top 10 teams and 3 CFP top 14 teams total. 

But in general, yeah, the new scheduling philosophy will  most likely be to schedule low-level P4 teams as the "marquee" opponent, then a couple of bodybag/cupcake/scrubs.  Then the 9-game SEC schedule. In most years Texas with only 2 losses against that schedule is going to get in.

Or you could avoid losing to 4-8 teams. 

Or you could avoid losing to 4-8 teams.

don't lose to " " can be said about anyone not undefeated & of course it's true relative to the florida game but the point stands relative to tx' decision to schedule the ohio state game & the consequences for losing it. had they scheduled northwestern instead of ohio state they'd have a win over another playoff team in oklahoma, they'd have handed aTm their only loss, & also beat a very good 10-2 vandy team & the committee would be falling all over themselves to put them in over miami. truth be told they're more deserving than miami now but that doesn't play b/c 10-2 > 9-3 & they don't care who you played unless the records match or you're in the sun belt.....errr.

This is the rub for the Bama-haters.  Both in the BCS and Playoff era, Bama was argued for by the school, Saban, and probably most importantly, mediots, based on whatever their argument was for that year.  If they had a good schedule with quality wins, that was touted and said to be what should really matter.  If they didn't, but looked like the best team, that was touted and said to be what should really matter. 

It got old, but fortunately, I don't much care anymore. 

I think most people do this and, to me, it is funny to watch.  They'll grab whatever argument fits their preferred outcome, it is called outcome based reasoning.  

Texas will have 9 games against SEC teams.  The schedule will be a lot stronger than Miami's, which was good enough to get them in with 2 losses.

As I said, it will happen someday.  not often.  It may not be Miami or Notre Dame's weak ass schedule you're competing with for that slot.
Could be other SEC teams or 2-loss Big Ten teams
as you stated in a previous post.......... In most years Texas with only 2 losses against that schedule is going to get in.

Texas will have 9 games against SEC teams.  The schedule will be a lot stronger than Miami's, which was good enough to get them in with 2 losses.

But will it?  

I've been beating this drum for a long time but it matters because it IS a possibility:
Texas had a TOUGH SEC schedule this year.  There were seven SEC teams that went 6-2 or better and Texas played four of them.  The other side of the coin is in your state.  The Aggies also played an "SEC Schedule" but theirs involved playing just two of the 6-2 or better teams and FIVE 2-6 or worse teams.  

When you go to nine Texas might add Bama (7-1) and aTm might add UK (2-6) in which case Texas' schedule gets even tougher and aTm's gets even easier.  

To be clear, I'm not picking on the SEC here, the same thing applies in the B1G.  In the mega-conference era it needs to be understood that conference schedules vary GREATLY from one team to the next.  My own team had a pretty lightweight league schedule in 2025 (played five of the seven teams that went 3-6 or worse) but they had a very difficult league schedule in 2024 when they played all three of the teams that went 8-1 or better (and went 2-1).  

So yeah, Texas' nine-game SEC Schedules will generally be tougher but not always.  Some years they'll end up playing almost the entire bottom half of the league and only a couple quality teams.  Other years they'll face a murder's row of almost the entire top half of the league.