When the College Football Playoff begins this weekend, UT will take on Clemson in the first round. Four hours later, on another TV network, UT will take on Ohio State. Good thing Steve Sarkisian has two quarterbacks!Of course, the Longhorns aren’t playing twice—rather, this twelve-team iteration of the College Football Playoff features two schools that abbreviate their names the same way: the University of Texas (which will face Clemson) and the University of Tennessee (Ohio State).This would not ordinarily be a big deal. The two UTs have coexisted since the nineteenth century without rancor or confusion, save for the occasional search engine mix-up. You’d think that with the massive amount of data that Google has on me that they would be able to see me…
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