re: Why did Auburn and Ole Miss play so infrequently before expansion?

I 22 is helping as well

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distance. Oxford was very hard to get to until they 4 laned hwy 6. That's why they played in Jackson all the way up into the early 90's.

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Both schools were considered difficult drives, especially prior to completion of many of the southern interstates between the late 60's and early 80's. Tennessee insisted on playing Auburn in Birmingham until the end of the 70's.

Teams didn't use chartered planes back then.