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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 2351452, member: 1559"] Actually, SMU was playing their games at Texas Stadium when the death penalty struck. If they didn't have a big opponent like Texas or A&M, they would attract 20k to 30k to games before the death penalty. After the death penalty, they did play a game per year in the Cotton Bowl, but they played most games on campus. The teams that got left behind in the Big 12 conference formation were the smaller schools with small fanbases. Baylor won the last Big 12 spot from the SWC due to politics, but SMU, TCU, Houston, and Baylor didn't have big fanbases or much recent success in football. [/QUOTE]