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The SEC has thrown shade at one of many convention’s latest members and signaled to the world that custom issues after they made the choice to bestow the official ‘UT’ title on the College of Tennessee Volunteers over the College of Texas Longhorns who will henceforth be referred to as ‘TEX’.
This can be a devastating blow for the Longhorns and your entire state of Texas who’ve been utilizing UT for so long as the state’s flagship college has existed, which, for reference it College of Texas-Austin was based in 1881 whereas the College of Tennessee was based 87 years prior in 1794.
After all, each faculties glided by totally different names of their earliest of days however that’s neither right here nor there now that the SEC has formally bestowed ‘UT’ honors on the Volunteers who had been a constitution member of the Southeastern Convention all the best way again on December 8, 1932 when the SEC was based.
Information that UT had been demoted to ‘TEX’ broke when Brent Zwerneman, a Texas A&M beat author for the Houston Chronicle, shared this official chart from the SEC exhibiting ‘UT’ for Tennessee and ‘TEX’ for the College of Texas:
The SEC chimes in on who’s the actual UT (the one with league seniority): pic.twitter.com/8SQQNn1RwE
— Brent Zwerneman (@BrentZwerneman) July 19, 2024
That full listing of First/Second/Third staff Preseason All SEC offense appears to be like like this:
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Seniority issues. And on this case that merely refers back to the variety of years spent within the SEC as Texas has seen significantly extra on-field success within the ‘Ballot Period’ of Faculty Soccer than the Vols with Texas claiming 4 nationwide championships to Tennessees 2. Stepping exterior of simply school soccer, Texas can also be a behemoth throughout all sports activities with 47 titles claimed throughout 11 totally different sports activities.
It’s value noting that this SEC Tennessee-Texas ‘UT’ title information was damaged by a Texas A&M author whose staff is noticeably absent from that listing of First Staff SEC expertise. That has to sting slightly bit for the Aggies.
