re: College football in the state of Texas turned on its head

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Some "towns" in both east/west I can't get cell or internet service. And the people that live there like it that way.

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If you had a map on the wall and stuck your finger on what looks like the center of the state, that's where my parents live. Only one cell phone company (Verizon) provides service there, and even then they need a signal booster Verizon installed in their house and have to stand under on certain tree. They have satellite TV and satellite internet (which sucks) because otherwise dial-up is all they could have. The nearest post office is in a trailer. Despite the total population figure, there's still a lot of the state that's extremely rural and sparsely populated. Everyone lives in (or near) Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus, and El Paso. Hell, even the Karolyi's gymnastics ranch, which is the "finishing school" for the US Olympic gymnastic team, is so remote that they have to send drivers to pick the girls up from IAH or people to meet them at the nearest highway because mapping software isn't good at providing directions and cell phones don't work well there.