As posted elsewhere, you are now in the SEC. The SWC is dead. Leave it there. Maybe the reason no one shows much interest in an Arkansas rivalry is because you still think the Longhorns are the your biggest enemy. Got news for you, they don’t look at it that way. They hardly care.

I can only say that it does not matter who would knock us out, if they are in the SEC, Tiger fans will generally pull for them.

LSU fans pull for other SEC teams because they need an excuse when they lose to said SEC team or so they can prop their own egos up when they win. Arkansas fans have an obsession with Texas because it’s the way God intended, and we don’t pull for other SEC teams because we’re bitter. All in good fun, of course.

I love it!!

Speaking as an Arkansas fan, I’m a big believer in conference loyalty. First I root hogs, then, assuming the hogs aren’t playing, I root SEC West, then SEC. (Obviously, there can be exceptions to that, but it would have to be pretty extreme. I mean, even hating Houston Nutt is arguably a questionable reason to wish him to fail, especially considering where he brought us after Danny Ford.) It benefits the hogs to play in the premier conference in whatever sport is in question, especially when we take a piece of the payout. That’s a pretty obvious argument, so I’ll leave it there.

I’m generalizing here, but I tend to dislike LSU fans more than any other in the SEC, but regardless, I’m not going to root against them out of spite. They’ve done a lot to make the SEC a premier conference, a stage on which the football hogs could get on a roll and roll on in to a national championship. With the lack of respect we get, that wouldn’t be true in most other conferences. Also, just be careful what you wish for… imagine a fictional future where SEC teams consistently lose to nonSEC teams… then we’d be in one of those conferences where 10-2 doesn’t mean Orange Bowl, but Banana Bowl. You know, ‘cause that’d be ridiculous.

Don’t tell anyone, but I have a hard-to-explain soft spot for LSU (when they’re not playing the Hogs, obviously). I have no such weaknesses when it comes to Texas, so I’m very casually rooting for LSU here…although I really like Kevin’s “focus on the loser” approach the best.

Seriously, I like the way Dalla$ summed it up. Similarly, Bama and UGA fans bug me, but I’ll bleed their colors when they’re up against a non-SEC foe.

Just so Artiger and Mike Slive don’t come knocking on my door with SEC storm troopers at their back, I would like to say that I pull for and I think we all should pull for SEC teams in bowl games, in out of conference football games, in March madness, and if I paid any attention to it in years past, the College World Series. But seeing as the Tigers just spanked the Hogs in the post-season this year and that they are playing Texas, I thought it best as a Hog fan just to focus on there being a loser. There’s no real underdog to root for here, which is what I usually do. Both teams are big players in the world of College baseball. Whichever one loses, that team can still go look at their trophy case and see multiple championship trophies. And as far as rooting against Texas goes, it might not make sense to outsiders, but that is okay, for we don’t need their approval to hate on an old rival. Southerners do have their traditions, you know. And that one is one of ours. You wouldn’t try to stop a cajun from sucking the head of a crawdad would you?

But you grew up in Arkansas and became an LSU fan? Gosh, I didn’t know such a thing was possible, haha. I hear ya. We are in the SEC now, and there isn’t a Razorback fan out there that would trade an SEC title in football for a win over Texas. It is the best football conference in the nation, and we want to put that first conference trophy in the Broyles Complex sooner rather than later. But we can still hate on Texas in the process. No need in giving that tradition up entirely.