SEC fans unable to root for Texas or Ohio State in Cotton Bowl: Can they both lose?

Would ya lookie here. Seems there’s quite the conundrum brewing inside the rabid and unwaveringly loyal SEC fanbase.

All for One has quickly become None for Texas.

The Longhorns – a newbie and the last remaining conference team in the College Football Playoff – are the last hope for the loud and proud SEC fanbase to continue boasting of college football dominance. But the old school that never hesitates supporting all things Ess Eee See isn’t buying it.

In fact, Friday’s Cotton Bowl semifinal against loathsome Ohio State has devolved into which makes you want to puke more? Ohio State and the subpar Big Ten (because they’re surely not a “rival” of the SEC), or Texas — a poison pill the devoted SEC fanbase now realizes it has swallowed?

“I would say 80 percent of our audience is rooting against Texas to win it all,” said Michael Bratton, host and owner of That SEC Podcast, the highest-rated SEC show on Apple and Spotify podcasts and an organic show that feeds off the true North of the biggest, baddest conference in college athletics.

Its passionate fans.

“If it were anyone but Texas, things might be different,” Bratton continued. “But the arrogance from those (Texas) fans has already rubbed most the wrong way.”

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian raises the Peach Bowl trophy after his team’s defeat of Arizona State in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Jan. 1, 2025.

Well, well, well. It didn’t take long for Texas to find itself in the all too familiar place as villain, lumbering into the SEC with all the subtlety of a Bernese mountain dog.

It has taken all of four months, and SEC loyalist already have figured out what the college football world has known forever. There’s no love for the Longhorns outside of those whose blood runs burnt orange.

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