i'm in central texas. was driving from houston to austin (home). had to stop because of rain and traffic. thought i would be able to watch the game in columbus texas (don't worry about where). texas ou was over. restaurant bar had one tv. 3 local a$$hats were in there and had the channel bogarted on the red river shootout postgame coverage. no game... just watch the coverage of a game they just lost... oh, and they were local too, 5 minutes to their house with maybe indoor plumbing and electricity?
i jump in the car to make the now 90 minute drive home. i scan AM stations that i could pick up. FOUR different english speaking broadcasts of baylor/tcu and one in spanish. i could only get updates on some talking head show. thanks to our late start, i got home to the TV at the start of the second quarter.
in texas, we had texas/ou... baylor/tcu....and om/atm... so no one here even knew there were games outside of the republic.