COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A few years ago, when Art Briles was enjoying his pre-scandal heydays at Baylor, he looked at me with a straight face and ridiculed teams who “schedule themselves a bunch of automatic wins.”
For the record, that season Baylor survived the murderers’ row of Wofford, Buffalo and Louisiana-Monroe.
No team in the Big 12 affords itself so puny a nonconference slate this fall, but the degree of difficulty still varies. Here’s how the toughest schedules shake out, one through 10:
1. Texas
DKR owns a rep for being the sleepiest 100,000-seat stadium in college football, but it should be raucous when USC visits Sept.