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won 14 NCAA national team championships and one NCAA team triple crown. The list of Arkansas individual SWC champions and individual NCAA champions is long. Standout coaches and athletes include the legendary John McDonnell of Arkansas, the winningest coach in NCAA history regardless of sport. Baylor's
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The two glory periods of the conference happened during the 1930s and the 1960s. In 1935, the last year before the AP Poll, both SMU and TCU claimed the national title. The 2 teams had played in one of the first games labeled "game of the century" on November 30 of that year. In 1938, TCU won the AP
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When the Southeastern Conference (SEC) invited the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina to join the conference in 1990, it created shockwaves across the CFA. The other conferences in the CFA correctly assumed the SEC made these additions to create a better TV product with the
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By 1925, the conference's name was shortened to simply Southwest Conference. After its organizational years, the conference settled into regularly scheduled meetings among its members and began to gain stature nationwide. The SWC would be guided by seven commissioners, the first of whom, P. W. St.
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were dominant in track and field winning 15 SWC cross country team titles, 11 SWC indoor track team titles, 9 SWC outdoor track team titles, and an incredible 8 SWC triple crowns (cross country, indoor track and outdoor track champions all in the same season). During their SWC days, the Razorbacks
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won three straight SWC regular season and tournament titles from 1989 to 1991, the school's last three seasons in the conference. The passion of Arkansas fans for their Razorbacks often overran the confines of SWC basketball venues, so much so, that Reunion Arena in Dallas (annual site of the SWC
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were also often featured. Circa the 1940s onward, the Cotton Bowl Classic was included among the four major bowl games and not infrequently had national championship implications. Near the turn of the century however, the game declined in importance largely due to the decline of SWC prominence. In
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After a long period of stability and success, the conference's overall athletic prowess began to decline throughout the 1980s, due in part to numerous member schools violating NCAA recruiting rules, culminating in the suspension of the entire SMU football program ("death penalty") for the 1987 and
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with President Richard Nixon in attendance is usually counted among the greatest college football games ever played. Texas also won the 1970 United Press International (UPI) National Championship (i.e., the coaches' poll), which until 1974 was awarded prior to the bowl games. Texas lost the
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basketball from 1973 to 1975). The NCAA canceled SMU's 1987 season, and limited it to seven road games for 1988. However, nearly all of the school's lettermen transferred elsewhere, forcing SMU to keep its football program shuttered for 1988 as well. SMU also remained on probation until
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broke from the CFA, signing a national deal with CBS. The SEC would earn a then-staggering $ 95 million from the deal. More significantly, this change in television contracts ultimately would lead to significant realignment of college conferences, with the SWC's demise triggering
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also fielded fine teams that advanced to the College World Series. The Hogs finished 2nd in 1979, 3rd in 1985, and 5th in both the 1987 and 1989 seasons. The Hogs have continued this tradition since moving to the SEC, reaching the CWS four times under Arkansas alumnus
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became the last team to win a national championship in the Cotton Bowl Classic by beating Texas in the January 1978 game. Texas might have been awarded the national championship in 1983 had they won the January 1984 game, but they were bested by Georgia 10-9.
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and lasting until 1995, the Southwest Conference Champion automatically received an invitation to be the "host" team in the Cotton Bowl Classic game on New Year's Day in Dallas. Opponents usually were the runners-up from the
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Houston was invited to join the SWC in March 1971, and began play in all sports except football and basketball in 1972–73. Cougar basketball joined the fray in 1975–76, and football was last to join for the 1976–77 school
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The first organizational meeting of the conference was set for April 30, 1914; since not all schools involved could send representatives to attend that date, it was ultimately held on May 5 and 7 at the Oriental Hotel in
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Miami were both seriously considered by the SWC to join the conference as replacements for Arkansas. In March 1994, Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech accepted invitations to join with the members of the
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idea of leaving the CFA. The SEC represented one of the more valuable assets in the CFA. It seemed likely that if the SEC departed, other conferences would have a more difficult time securing preferable TV deals.
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that the NCAA could not punish its membership for selling their media content. As a result, individual schools and athletic conferences were freed to negotiate contracts on their own behalf. The
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national title. In 1939, the SWC achieved back to back national titles when Texas A&M won the AP Poll. In the 1960s, the SWC was dominated by two teams: Texas and Arkansas. Texas won the
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with Sweet 16 appearances in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1990, 1991, Elite 8 appearances in 1978, 1979, 1990, and 1991, and Final Four appearances in 1978 and 1990. Arkansas's famed Triplets -
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to join the conference as well, but they declined to do so. The Southwest Intercollegiate Athletic Conference became an official body on December 8 at a formal meeting at the Rice Hotel in
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In February 1994, the Southeastern Conference announced that they would be leaving the CFA and negotiate independently for a television deal that covered SEC schools only. This led
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polls. In 1969, Texas won another national championship by beating #2-ranked Arkansas 15–14 in the regular season's final game (dubbed the "Big Shootout"). The
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This is a listing of the conference facilities as of the 1995–96 school year, the conference's last. Capacities and venue names are also current for 1995–96.
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The SWC's performance in football declined precipitously. The last SWC football champion to win a bowl game was Texas A&M, who beat Notre Dame in the
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The MVIAA split into the Big 6 (still operating legally as the MVIAA) and the MVC in 1928 with Oklahoma joining the former and Oklahoma State the latter.
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Over the course of its 82-year history, teams of the Southwest Conference garnered 64 recognized national championships in collegiate sports.
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game held in Dallas. From 1925 until 1991, the University of Arkansas would be the only conference member geographically outside the state of
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between Houston and Rice was the last football game played in the conference. In May 1996, after the completion of championship matches in
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Arkansas' departure for the Southeastern Conference marked the beginning of the end for the Southwest Conference. After this announcement,
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conferences sold their rights to CBS and ABC. Most of the rest of the Division I-A football programs (what is now called the
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Arkansas, after years of feeling like an outsider in the conference, left after the 1990–91 school year to join the
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for the 1976 season (Houston proceeded to win the SWC football championship in its first season of league play).
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rose to power in the late 1980s, going 58–5 in 1989 before losing twice in the regional championship round on
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in 1925. The series between Texas and Oklahoma would still continue as a non-conference matchup in the annual
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to proclaim that "the College Football Association as a television entity is dead". In 1995, the SEC and the
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Southwest Conference Records, 1914–1996 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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probations. The only programs to escape probation in the 1980s were Arkansas, Baylor, and Rice. Because of
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departed in 1919 to join the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (later reorganized as the
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For most of its history, the core members of the conference were Texas-based schools plus one in Arkansas:
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In 1997, the official records of the conference from 1914 to 1996 were moved from Dallas to the campus of
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by a score of 35–10. Since then, the final eight SWC champions lost in their bowl games. After SMU's
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Clair, was appointed in 1938. In 1940, the conference took control of the then five-year-old
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began its ascent to college baseball's elite in the conference's final years under coach
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major realignment. (After the SWC's demise, another major realignment took place in the
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The 1980s saw many of the conference's athletic programs hit by recruiting scandals and
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Arthur A. Fleisher; Arthur A. Fleisher III; Brian L. Goff; Robert D. Tollison (1992).
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of Texas all kicked record setting field goals of 60 + yards in the same season.
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all served as head coaches in the conference. Some notable SWC players included
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The SWC had many legendary players and coaches over the years. In football,
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national championship in 1964 in the Football Writers Association of America
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Breaking the Ice: The Racial Integration of Southwest Conference Football
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Football, Texas Style: An Illustrated History of the Southwest Conference
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Study in Cartel Behavior
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program became only the third in NCAA history to receive the so-called "
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Concurrent membership with both the SWC and the TIAA from 1915 to 1917
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The early 1980s were the glory years of SWC basketball, including the
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by a score of 24–11, giving the Associated Press (AP) Championship to
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Time has run out on the Southwest Conference, but what a time it was
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that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from
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won national titles in 1975 and 1983 as well as titles under
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on July 1, 2012, but instead accepted an invitation to the
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The Southwest Conference: Memorabilia, audio files, links
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NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
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competed as a conference member for one year (1920).
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Index

American Southwest Conference
Southwestern Athletic Conference
Southwestern Conference (Ohio)

NCAA
Division I
Division I-A
Dallas, Texas
South Central United States
Location of teams in
NCAA Division I
college athletic conference
United States
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Baylor University
Rice University
Southern Methodist University
University of Texas at Austin
Texas A&M University
Texas Christian University
Texas Tech University
University of Houston
University of Arkansas
Southeastern Conference
Texas Tech
Border Conference
Big Eight Conference
Big 12 Conference

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