FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — TCU coach Sonny Dykes grew up around Southwest Conference football as the son of a coach. As a head coach himself, he has won on both sides in the rivalry between the Horned Frogs and SMU that, at least for now, is about end after 104 games played over 120 years.

Arkansas-born Rhett Lashlee, who took over at SMU after Dykes moved 40 miles across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex at the end of the 2021 season, fondly remembers as a kid when the Razorbacks were in the Southwest Conference with eight teams from Texas.

In the 30 years since the SWC’s final season, no teams from that league have met more as nonconference opponents than TCU (2-0) and SMU (2-1), which play Saturday. Since going separate ways after five years together in the WAC, this will be the 23rd “B

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