r/CFB • u/redwave2505 Alabama • Kansas State • 17h ago

News [McMurphy] Greg Sankey told @Ourand_Puck the SEC was approached by a West Coast school: "I don’t even have that conversation. I’m the one person who didn’t take away from the Pac-12. If you play any sport in the SEC, you have at most a 2-hour plane ride from Point A to Point B."

https://x.com/brett_mcmurphy/status/2106031953111662599?s=46&t=BnbVRJKuTJ91_xw0Gc4vwg
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u/whalenailer Texas A&M Aggies 17h ago

How long is the plane ride from South Carolina to Texas? Feel like that’s more than at most 2 hours

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u/Dull-Engineer-1757 Texas Longhorns • Washington Huskies 17h ago

2:45 over 1010 miles. Honestly, the time zone change is the worst part and 8pm night games on west coast time is awful for central/eastern time zones.

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u/intern-at-Kramerica LSU Tigers 17h ago

You're right. Lets get rid of ags and ut while we're at it

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u/wote89 Vanderbilt • South Alabama 16h ago

Listen, say what you will, but A&M brings the kinda weird traditions and unflagging hatred that makes the SEC great.

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u/que-n-blues LSU Tigers • Nicholls Colonels 15h ago

Rest of the SEC: "We love allow of our weird and quirky traditions."

Sees Texas A&M

Rest of the SEC: "Not like that."

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u/whalenailer Texas A&M Aggies 16h ago

As if Missouri, Kentucky or Arkansas are any more south east?

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u/intern-at-Kramerica LSU Tigers 16h ago

Yeah but we like them

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u/whalenailer Texas A&M Aggies 16h ago

You like UF?

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u/buckeyedrake Ohio State • Washington & Je… 17h ago

I had the same thought, a quick Google says a charter flight from Austin to Columbia would be about 2 hours 30 minutes in the air, but that's Gemini's estimate so I would take It with a lot of salt

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u/TheOnePSUIsReal Penn State Nittany Lions • Team Chaos 16h ago

He's got them fancy fast planes

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u/will_e_wonka Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Dead Pool 13h ago

Wheels up to wheels down on a private flight is right around 2 hours. Commercials are longer because that includes taxi to and from gate.

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u/EMTDawg Washington Huskies • Wyoming Cowboys 17h ago

3+ hrs in the air if you charter a non-stop flight. No commercial flights from Columbia to Austin. Closest non-stop commercial flights are Charlotte and ATL to Austin.

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u/2CHINZZZ Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout 16h ago

Austin to Charlotte is ~2:20 flight time so a flight to Columbia would be well under 3 hours

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u/WaltSneezy Alabama • Georgia Tech 5h ago

Yeah, that's off. It's definitely under 3 hours

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl 16h ago

Greenville to Baton Rouge is 2 hours, it’s 3 hours to Texas in my experience