On Texas Football: Are the Longhorns’ first set of games as an SEC member in 2024 too difficult?
On the latest video episode On Texas Football’s Saturday Conversations with Paul, Inside Texas’ Bobby Burton and Paul Wadlington discuss if the Longhorns’ schedule of upcoming opponents in its first season in the Southeastern Conference in 2024 too difficult.
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According to the SEC’s release which was reported on Tuesday, the Longhorns will play Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi State at home in 2024, Arkansas, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt on the road and Oklahoma in Dallas in a neutral site game. The actual dates are yet to be determined.
Texas will also play at Michigan and host Colorado State, UTSA and Louisiana-Monroe at home in non-conference games in 2024.
“I’m psyched,” Wadlington said. “I don’t want to be a complete fanboy here, but I was fired up to see that schedule. I’m fired up to see who’s going to be visiting Austin. That home schedule is a significant cut up from some of the Big 12 schedules.
“I think it’s gonna be exciting, and I think obviously we are going to eventually get that nine-game SEC schedule.”
Wadlington said that the time is coming for fans start reorienting how they view scheduling and a team’s record.
“With team quality we’re gonna have to adopt much more of an NFL mindset, which is you know, an 11-6 NFL team is pretty good, right?” Wadlington explained. “In college football if you have more than a loss you must be some sort of bum on the national stage.
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“I just think the aggression of these SEC schedules, particularly as they expand out to nine SEC teams and if Texas keeps playing those premier games at Michigan in 2024 and at Ohio State 2025. You have a scenario with a 12-team playoff expansion where a two-, or even a three-loss Texas team deserves to be in the playoff. That’s going to be a complete mental readjustment for the average college football fan.”
Burton asked Wadlington if the Longhorns’ schedule is “too ambitous.”
“You get better or die,” Wadlington opined. “Texas is at its worst when it’s complacent. And the thing that shakes Texas from complacency is challenge and fear. We can’t reason our way out, and we understand that we need to upgrade our game across the board. And maybe we already have that fear that our motivates you. Because (if not) you’re about to get embarrassed. And I don’t think Texas fans and Texas alums like being embarrassed.
“So this whole complacency is, we should stay in an easier league because that’s the easiest way to go undefeated. That’s all nonsense. Do you want to play big-boy football? Do you want to be a part of the national conversation? If yes, then go forward and there’s no time like the present to rip off the band aid.”
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There’s plenty more to glean from the video so you owe it to yourself to go watch it in its entirety.
