A lot of the SEC schools play schools who have 4-acre campuses, which bloats their record. Not saying that SEC schools aren’t good or deserved to be ranked, but a lot of it is propaganda, just like we saw with football.
I like our strategy of playing some good teams on the road in tournaments, then playing mostly average, middle of the road, mid-major types, with a few weak sisters (but not too many).
If the internal UT system politics will allow for it, I'd drop our home games with the various UT satellite schools. Instead, I'd use those slots for road games for recruiting. And where do we traditionally recruit the best out-of-state? Southern California. So, in addition to the tournaments and lots of home games, in the pre-conference time, we should be on the road against teams like UCSB, CSUN, UCLA, USC, Long Beach St., Cal State Fullerton, San Diego St, UC-Irvine, Loyola of L.A., etc. We have a strong baseball recruiting foothold in California. Best to capitalize on it.
Also, it's good to show up in Houston and DFW from time to time, so UH, Rice, Houston Baptist, TCU, UNT, DBU, UTA would make for good road games.
