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Rivalries

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Texas has several long standing rivalries with several schools throughout the duration of the Southwest Conference and the Big 12 Conference. The University's biggest rival historically is their instate rival, Texas A&M University which began in 1894 and ran through the 2011 season. Their most significant and most fierce rivalry however is with the University of Oklahoma which began in 1900 and is played annually at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, TX. Texas once had a major rivalry with Southwest Conference foe Arkansas where several meetings between the two schools would decide the winner of the Southwest Conference. The rivalry with Arkansas has become less important since Arkansas joined the SEC and because the schools no longer play each other regularly. Since the inception of the Big 12 Conference, Texas Tech has become one of the Longhorns newest instate football rivalries which has grown over the last decade. Texas holds winning records over all four of their main rivals in football.