It's easy for me to reconcile when we get much of the same, just upgraded. We get back our games with Arkansas and Aggy, keep our game with OU, and add in an LSU game as another close proximity game. I run into way more LSU fans in Houston than Baylor or Tech fans. I'd say in all of college football realignment, Texas comes out the absolute sweetest in terms of retaining rivalries. And there's nothing stopping Texas from scheduling monster OOC games either. Our first year in the SEC we're playing Michigan. Plus, you know, the perks of the vast majority of our conference games coming from "University of" Flagship schools, instead of "3rd Place States" like we had in the Big 12.
I went to every Big 12 stadium when I was a student at UT. I always thought of places like Tech and Baylor like I thought of U of H. It felt little league for Texas to play in stadiums like those. No love lost at all.