re: Closest non-SEC P5 Schools to each SEC school

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Kentucky
- Louisville (Louisville, KY) (77 miles) (1 hr, 20 m)
- Indiana (Bloomington, IN) (179 miles) (3 hr, 7 m)
- Ohio State (Columbus, OH) (193 miles) (3 hr, 5 m)

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Some others within 300 miles:

- Purdue (West Lafayette, IN) (257.1 miles) (4 hr, 3 min)

You have West Virginia University, Notre Dame (if you count everything but football), and Michigan just outside of 300 (around 330-ish).

OOC Games that should be happening every year:

Mizzou - Kansas
Arky - Okie State
Auburn - Ga Tech
UT - Va Tech
Aggies - Texas (don't worry, you've been sharpened by iron in the SEC and you're better than them now)
Vandy - Duke (go play someone like yourself)

It's weird how infrequently Arkansas has played Oklahoma in football

Annual OU game didn't add up

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Arkansas and Oklahoma once played together in the Southwest Conference, before the Sooners escaped to what would later become the Big 8. The Sooners lead the football series 9-4-1, but they have played the Razorbacks only three times since Oklahoma left the SWC in 1926, all in bowl games.

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The campuses are separated by only around 230 miles, and Arkansas and Oklahoma fans interact daily in the many towns along their long shared border.

So why haven’t they played more frequently? Switzer, 82, welcomed the question. He was a UA captain when he finished his Razorback career in 1959. Then, after a brief military commitment, he coached at Arkansas from 1961-65 for his college head coach, Frank Broyles.

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As far as playing the Razorbacks, Switzer said the Sooners had no room on the schedule. “Of course, we had the nonconference game with Texas,” Switzer said of the Red River game played each year in Dallas. “And, the policy of our athletic department was that we’d also have one nonconference home-and-away series with a team on one of the coasts.

“We played Southern Cal, UCLA out west, then we’d play Penn State or someone east. We did that for national exposure. You play one easy game to start the season and it really didn’t allow for a spot to play Arkansas.

“It would have been pretty stupid to play both Texas and Arkansas nonconference. Like I said, it never came up.”

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Ken Hatfield, the Arkansas coach from 1984-89, doesn’t remember any thoughts of starting a series with the Sooners.

“It was just the way the Arkansas schedule worked that kept it from even thinking about it,” Hatfield said. “We had OSU or Tulsa during many years and you were not going to add another really good team at the start — especially when you were playing only 10.

We had Oklahoma teams on the schedule to help with recruiting. Plus, the Tulsa news outlets were covering the Razorbacks. Playing that Tulsa game gave us exposure there.”

The Hogs did schedule plenty of Oklahoma teams, just not the Sooners. Arkansas has played Tulsa more times (73) than any other opponent, and played Oklahoma State 46 times - often as a season opener in Little Rock - between 1950-80. Arkansas leads the OSU series 30-15-1, and leads the Tulsa series 56-14-3.

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Switzer does question the reasoning behind Arkansas’ move to the SEC in 1992. Like many, he feels the Razorbacks would be a better fit in the Big 12, which could create a frequent matchup with the Sooners.

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There are 58.61 miles between Athens and Clemson, SC. Clemson in closer to UGA than GT. The distance between UGA and Clemson is less than 1/2 the distance between Alabama and Auburn.

Clemson is closer to U of Georgia than any SEC school.
Clemson is closer to U of South Carolina than any SEC school.
Clemson is closer to U of Tennessee than any SEC school.

I like to think Clemson is the center of the Universe.

You can fact check here.....

LINK

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like to think Clemson is the center of the Universe.

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What a horrible and dreadful thought.

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Ole Miss
- Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA) (334 miles) (5 hr, 5 m)

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Was surprising.