As millions of us warped sorts continue to behold and ingest the wonders of college football, let us never underestimate the crucial role of snobbery. Snobbery has shaped college football for most of its 155 years, and snobbery still alights every week in many a somewhere. We see snobbery when a fan base presumes itself superior to that derelict fan base down the interstate, or harrumphs that its program should not ever lose to that program from a lesser division, or abandons conference brethren when the brethren doesn’t coax enough TV money. There’s a snobbery construct in many a state, not just Texas.
