Pretty sure most schools have blackballed Tehc because they broke the market price.

They've played ranked foes FSU, Nebraska, and A&M. They have 3 against Arizona impending and another FSU game in the near future. Plus whatever else their Big 12 schedule holds (edit - looks like 3 each against Utah and UCF as far as currently ranked teams).

It won't be considered much compared to SEC schedules, but it's probably fine compared to other Big 12 teams and/or most other ACC and Big 10 schools.

Not sure we can knock them on their football schedule when it's bad bc all the good schools left if that's what you are inferring.

Matt Simon mentioned on the radio broadcast several weeks ago that the Aggie schedule included 28 games against teams in the pre-season Top 25 whilst Tech included only 7. A majority of this is because of the two conferences and the differences in strength. When the sips and OU were part of the Big 12 conference it was competitive only in the top half but when the two teams left it became less so. It DID add Arizona and Arizona State along with Utah and UCF, teams that are competitive most years, and that sure helped. But the conference is nothing like the minefield that is the SEC. Note that even though OU was part of the weaker Big 12 they STILL won a ton of games vs top teams AND their recent 4 championships were when they were in the Big 12. So their schedule was weaker then but they still had awesome teams. I recall in the past during selection shows I always thought, "don't send us to Norman, anywhere but Norman !!"

Additional note - A&M's history page shows we won the conference title only twice whilst part of the Big 12, in 2005 and 2008. These are the last times we won a conference title (not counting any conference tourneys).