| abstract | - The Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Texas Longhorns football team of the University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech Red Raiders football team of Texas Tech University. The Chancellor's Spurs is the trophy awarded to the winner of the game. The trophy is a set of spurs exchanged between the chancellors of the University of Texas System and Texas Tech University System. The teams first played during the 1928 season and have played annually since 1960 when Texas Tech began participating in the Southwest Conference. The tradition of a "traveling trophy" between the two universities began during the 1996 season when, for the first time, both universities' administration included a chancellor position.
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