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Austin: Football's worst-kept secret

By Robert Reid, Lonely Planet
Special to ESPN SportsTravel

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Buy tickets for the Texas Tech-Texas tilt | Passport: Log your game Austin is the university town no one wants to leave. It's also a capital, for state politics and music, with a proud, diverse, open-minded local base that strives to ever "Keep Austin Weird" and opt for -- as Matthew McConaughey's Wooderson says in "Dazed and Confused" -- a life of "L-I-V-I-N." Add to that hills and natural springs in which you can swim in January. Wait, are we still Texas? Yes indeed we are, as evidenced by t ...

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