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Yet you'd root for ark and auburn in any non con game and there's no way in **** you rooted for tech against ark earlier this year. See the difference? You wouldn't root for tu against anyone if your life depended on it.
The real question is, "Do you not see the difference that true conference partnership makes?"
I can easily root for SEC teams against non-SEC teams.
In the Big12, there's not the equal footing and partnership from ALL members. There is however a pervasive tu favoritism, mixed with an every man for himself motto. Which meant, (and still does) it is literally never in A&M's best interest for tu or other Big12 members to win.
In the SEC, it's the cumulative "brand" that is important. (See the SEC network not individual school channels). While an Auburn natty last year wouldn't have hurt A&M significantly in recruiting, the "one more year of SEC dominance" would have been the SEC motto. That helps A&M.