First off, it's not about the size of the biggest cities.
It's about the number of eyeballs, i.e. the intensity of the interest.
http://www.cbssports.com/cbssports/s...all-tv-package
Arizona State versus UCLA - yawn. Is there even a good team in the Pac 10? Stanford? How many teams in the SEC are more popular than Stanford? (Hint: many).
You sound very much like the girl from the trailer park engaged to a man from high society. Not even nouveau riche yet.
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Yeah, a lot of Aggies are butt-hurt about TU's network. There seems to be this unwillingness to grasp the concept that Texans (and the rest of the nation) value Texas far and away above A&M or any other university in Texas. That's just reality.