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Published: 10/5/2009 7:31 PM
Last Modified: 10/5/2009 7:31 PM

Trivia question: Who will be the last major college football team to play a game away from home this season?
Hint: It’s one of the three Division I-A squads in this state.
Second hint: It’s not the school in Norman or Tulsa.
Oklahoma State, which played its first four games at Boone Pickens Stadium, will be the last FBS squad to play somewhere besides its home stadium when the Cowboys go to Texas A&M for an 11:30 a.m. Saturday game.
Hey, Perrish Cox. Is it possible to explain to first-year players about what it’s like to play a college football game on the road?
“You can do all the explaining, but it takes going through the whole away game thing,” the OSU senior cornerback said. “It was different for me when I first came in. I played a lot when I was a freshman. It’s a different environment, especially going into conference. From nonconference to conference game, it’s a big difference man. The first away game and a conference game, you can only just explain so much, but you have got to put it in their heads that it’s another game.”
Kentucky and Texas A&M are the only other FBS schools who haven’t played true road games yet, but they have participated in neutral-site games.
A&M will be the last FBS team to play a true road game when the Aggies go to Kansas State on Oct. 17.



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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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