When Texas rolled into Starkville on Saturday afternoon, the Longhorns knew they’d be facing a hungry Mississippi State squad. What nobody expected was a different kind of battle brewing off the field. This one would light up social media and expose the thin line between fandom and territorial pride in college football’s most passionate towns.

The fireworks started when CJ Vogel, a Texas journalist who covers the Longhorns for On Texas Football, aired his grievances about Starkville’s infrastructure on Twitter. “There shouldn’t be a college town in the country where I don’t have phone service while standing in the middle of the town’s busiest street,” Vogel wrote. “But here we are in Starkville, Mississippi. Service is dead as a dog.” The complaint might have gone unnoticed in the usual g

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