Hinting at Steve Sarkisian's Texas, college insider takes a cheeky dig at SEC for pointing out schedule difficulty

College football insider Danny Kannell took a subtle shot at the SEC after the conference presented documents and graphics highlighting the difficulty of its schedule.

The SEC is widely considered the best conference in college football, but Kannell disagreed, sarcastically referencing how Texas made it to the conference championship game in its first year.

"The SEC regular season is so grueling they are simply too exhausted to compete for national titles anymore," Kannell wrote on X. "It's so exhausting that when teams join the SEC from other supposedly inferior conferences they are so fresh that they have no problem competing for SEC titles right away!!"

Kannell posted a picture of an SEC board that said no other conference had a gauntlet like the SEC.

Although the SEC has plenty of great teams, Kannell hinted that if the conference was so good, Texas would have struggled in its first year.

The Longhorns lost to Georgia twice, once in the regular season and once in the SEC Championship, but did have notable wins over Oklahoma, Florida, Texas A&M, Kentucky, and Arkansas in SEC play.

Texas coach wants 9-game SEC schedule

Although the SEC schedule is already considered to be a gauntlet, Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian wants the conference to add another game.

With the College Football Playoff expanding, Sarkisian would like to see the SEC add a ninth conference game, which would help fix potential tiebreakers and prove who the best teams are in the conference.

"For our fans to get another home game against an SEC opponent, I think is a great thing,” Sarkisian said, via SI. “I think the challenge with that is none of us want to be punished because that’s eight more losses for our conference no matter how you slice it.

"Eight teams are going to win and eight teams are going to lose Nobody wants to get punished playing another game. I think that’s the challenge. How does that affect you from a Playoff perspective? What does that look like?”

Sarkisian and the Longhorns are set to play Florida, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Arkansas, and Texas A&M in 2025 as their SEC opponents.