Regarding Florida - Texas is a sandwich game for them on the road. They'll have just played rival Georgia and then rival LSU follows the Texas game. Prior to UGA, they have an off week but will be recuperating from UCF, @Tenn, UK (who pummeled them last year). There is no rest for this team in 2024. The one game late in the year in which the normal human reaction to just not really show up, due to some level of exhaustion, is the Texas game. They're 100% not getting up to play Texas with that schedule structure. Y'all wringing hands about that game is laughable.
Regarding Texas A&M - The Texas team that should be sweating their UF game is ATM. They play them early, in The Swamp, with UF coming off a scrimmage against Samford and likely pretty healthy.
ATM's roster is massively overrated. People are looking at quantity and one of the service's dumbass team transfer portal rankings and just assuming that ATM somehow upgraded their roster. How is losing a bunch of highly rated players in exchange for a bunch of mediocrities leading to this notion of ATM being worth a fuck? Adding 20+ dudes from FCS and G5 plus a couple of good players from the likes of Purdue spurs confidence in a perennially failing team? It's truly bizarre.
People worried about jihad shit with ATM are ignoring history. The upset in this match-up is rare. It's rare because the rivalry isn't misunderstood by anyone, ever. Sarkisian is going to hear things regarding ATM at a fever pitch heading into that game and so will everyone else associated to the program.
Regarding Arkansas - I was in Fayetteville in 2021. I can attest that this match-up was not understood by the staff or team at the time. I don't see that being the case this time around for the staff. I understand the handwringing on this one, but this is game will involve a massive talent disparity, and that wasn't true in 2021.
Arkansas returns 5 starters on each side of the ball, with key losses on both sides. Their returning offensive production ranks 99th in the country while their returning defensive production ranks 115th. They added 15-ish guys from the portal, but I dare you to try to name more than one of them without cheating.
In effect, Arkansas is rebuilding with a coach on the hot seat and a bunch of jaggers that wouldn't play for Texas on their best day.