Texas faces Arkansas in the Armed Forces Classic

The Texas Longhorns face their first power conference opponent — and an old and almost forgotten rival — in the Arkansas Razorbacks on Friday in El Paso. The game takes place at Fort Bliss as the annual installment of the Armed Forces Classic, which is thankfully not being played in an non-air conditioned gym in Japan... because what could possibly go wrong with that.

(What went wrong was the court became so slippery that the officials ended the game at halftime. This was a fate that was similar to several of the games that ESPN attempted to stage on the deck of aircraft carriers. These events scheduled around Veterans Day are a nice idea, and thankfully are now much better executed.)

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