The weirdest thing to me is knowing how in a short while, it won't be weird.
I had such a hard time imagining A&M as an SEC team because I was used to them playing Texas schools in the SWC days, and "middle-America" teams in the Big 12 days (a great long-standing ooc rivalry with LSU notwithstanding). It felt so werid to watch them play Florida that first conference opener, and then move to their annual slate of Ole Miss, Auburn, etc.
Fast forward just a few seasons and it felt normal, natural, and like it had always been that way. Which is what's gonna happen with OU and UT. I've already gotten used to not seeing OU/Neb anymore, and now OU's mental footprint in my mind is going to completely shift, as will Texas'.
It will be nice to get the UT/A&M game back. My hope is A&M will quit projecting the loss of their last girlfriend onto us, because it's damn weird when we never dated them in the first place.
My further hope is we go to the 9-game conference schedule with the 4-team perma-rival models I've seen.