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Maybe Texas and OU will rethink joining a crappy conference.

Maybe Texas and OU will rethink joining a crappy conference.

Ha!

Sandbagger gonna sandbag.

Good game, Texas!  One of the few times I've rooted for the 'Horns.  This season I would love for the Horns and Sooners to play for the B12 championship just to make sure the final B12 trophy leaves with one of us.

Im with you

lets do this

Yeah, OK, I think we can LET you win.

OU is better than last year so it might not be 49-0 but Texas is probably better than OU at every position group this year.  I'm not holding out much hope.

If they were Forelane maybe.

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.  

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. 

I think it's stranger for the movers, than the move-ees.  Or whatever.

My i s c & a aggie wife still wonders why the ags are playing Miss State and Auburn instead of Texas Tech and Texas.  She grew up with the SWC rivalries and I don't think she'll ever really get into the SEC groove (although she did enjoy watching her team beat Alabama those couple of times).

For me though, I'm happy we'll have Texas A&M and Arkansas back on the schedule, while also maintaining the annual game against OU.  And then the thought of sprinkling in some games against LSU, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, makes for a lot of fun.  I'm just going to have to get to the point where I can accept all of that at face value.  But it's going to take a while, no doubt.