re: Better 1st SEC Season? A&M or Mizzou?

Without looking at schedules, I might agree with you, but if Mizzou plays 2 of Bama, LSU, Auburn, and Arky from East, then idk. They could easily lose to Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. Maybe Tenn will finally decide to stop being terrible. It will be interesting to see how their spread offense translates to the SEC.

Same holds true with us. If we end up with say, Kentucky and @South Carolina as East opponents, and a West schedule of @Arky (at JerryWorld), @LSU, @MSU, Ole Miss, Bama, Auburn, in an ideal scenario we could go 11-1 with that schedule. That's assuming we get all our JUCO's in and they pan out, we get good QB play from the start, secondary takes a step up from last year, etc. If you want to be conservative 9-3 wouldn't be unreasonable. By the same token, if we get a really nasty road schedule, 6-6 could happen.

It's all hypothetical, but just because Mizzou is in the East doesn't automatically guarantee they will have the better record next year. It's really impossible to predict without knowing what the schedules will be. If I had to guess right now, I would say we go 8-4, 4-4 in SEC play.