If you didn’t know, the battle between the two furthest teams in the Big 12, separated by 1,466 miles of road, a 23 hour road trip or a 7-hour plane ride, involves a fictitious trophy known as the John Denver Trophy.
This trophy, introduced back in 2016, is a creation of the Smoking Musket, but its something both sites (Smoking Musket and Viva La Matadors) takes very seriously!
Henry Deutschendorf Jr., also known by his stage name, “John Denver”, became arguably the most successful musician in the country by the mid 1970’s.