Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning didn't want his entire college campus to recognize him when he went out on the town, leading him to forego commitments to the Georgia Bulldogs or Alabama Crimson Tide.

Manning once said, "That's the good thing about Austin. I'm not like Ty Simpson at Alabama or Gunner Stockton at Georgia. I can go to parts of Austin where nobody really cares about me."

It's clear why he didn't want those two SEC powers. But how was the University of Virginia ever even on the table?

Manning didn't want to the play for the Virginia Cavaliers, his mother's alma mater and a school he only visited to placate her, because he wanted to play "national championship football."

"Ellen played devil's advocate during the college decision process. She wanted Arch to have a no

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