re: History Junkies: College Football circa 1938

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Didn't realize the old Southwestern conference was just a bunch of Texas schools and Arkansas

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OU and OSU were charter members of the Southwest Conference but left very early on (and were replaced essentially with TCU and SMU).

LSU, Tulane, Ole Miss and Mississippi State were also originally at or invited to the initial meetings but those schools stayed in the SIAA.