re: nutless bovines in austin too scared to leave TX

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Utx played Vanderbilt at the State Fair because they would not travel to Nashville for home and home games. Vanderbilt kept beating them so they dropped playing Vanderbilt at the State Fair and picked up Oklahoma.

Utx was like the B1G schools back in the day in that they wanted unfair games. Michigan did the same in they wanted to play in their home more often than playing in the other teams home. Home and home is commonplace now but not in the early days. Salt in the wound was to get more home games then to lose at home to the visiting team.

The SEC did not just appear out of no where in 1932, it had history in the old SoCon and SIAA. Both Utx and TAMU were SIAA members in the early days of college football and the evolution to the first time we had Super Conferences. It is why many of the current games have ties to the old SoCon and SIAA members.

Most current SEC, ACC, and the two TX teams were all in the same conference at one time. Utx left because they were not winning and wanted unfair home games and forced TAMU to join them a few years later in forming the SWC where Utx held more power. Before the war the SEC spun off from the SoCon and after the war the ACC spun off from the SoCon.

Folks forget how the GI Bill after WWII shifted the power from the private schools to the public ones. Kentucky played the first college football among the current SEC schools but they were a private school (Transylvania) that spun off UK as an A&M (no women) and Centre (the team that created the 12th man at TAMU were football powerhouses in the day. Tennessee is big now but the state of TN was the domain of Sewanee and Vanderbilt. LSU is the power today but Tulane had the "Queen of the South" in Tulane. It was Tulane that declined the Rose Bowl invitation for academic reasons that allowed Alabama to replace them.

Utx had no problem traveling to NOLA to play Tulane because they have a history of beating them and wanted the recruiting exposure in Louisiana (plus a trip to NOLA was fun) and Nashville was a city, not a college town so it shows clear choice by the folks on the 40 acres to schedule where they benefitted and to not schedule home and home where the opponent was winning. If you know the pre war history of Michigan they were probably the worst offenders of not playing home and home which pads their early victory total.

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