re: As an Aggie I loved seeing Clemson win

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The other example to look at is Florida. They have no conference titles prior to 1991 (one in 1984 was stripped by the NCAA). They had some good teams, and as the state and school grew, you figured they had to get it going at some point, but never really got over the hump until they hired the right coach. People of a certain age may think of them as a blue blood now, but that's not their history at all.

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Florida is maybe not the best example. While Spurrier gets the credit he inherited the foundation Pell and Hall built over about a decade or so. It also helped that Free Shoes was a girls college and Miami did not really exist till Howard developed thug ball. Problem is now all have built out and now chase the state fro recruits from 3 P5's instead of just 1. State of TX has lots more P5 mouths to feed which means less opportunity to create a monopoly for any 1 TX school.

Viewed another way, imagine if Ohio State had to share the state of Ohio with say Cincinnati after WW II. With the monopoly in OH they could do better than with the completion from another P5.