Full-sized helmets from my collection. Some are now featured and on display at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco, Texas. For more information on the new SWC part of the museum, click here.
SMU 1999
SMU 2001
TCU 1985
TCU 2001
Texas 1970
Texas A&M 2003
TCU 1966 Game Photo
Southwest
Conference Football Champions, By Year
*denotes
national champions or co-national champions
1915
Oklahoma
1936
Arkansas
1957
Rice
1978
Houston
1916
Texas
1937
Rice
1958
TCU
1979
Houston
1917
Texas
A&M
1938
TCU*
1959
Texas
1980
Baylor
1918
Texas
1939
Texas
A&M*
1960
Arkansas
1981
SMU
1919
Texas
A&M
1940
Texas
A&M
1961
Texas
1982
SMU
1920
Texas
1941
Texas
A&M
1962
Texas
1983
Texas
1921
Texas
A&M
1942
Texas
1963
Texas*
1984
SMU
1922
Baylor
1943
Texas
1964
Arkansas*
1985
Texas
A&M
1923
SMU
1944
TCU
1965
Arkansas
1986
Texas
A&M
1924
Baylor
1945
Texas
1966
SMU
1987
Texas
A&M
1924
Texas
A&M
1946
Rice
1967
Texas
A&M
1988
Arkansas
1926
SMU
1947
SMU
1968
Texas
1989
Arkansas
1927
Texas
A&M
1948
SMU
1969
Texas*
1990
Texas
1928
Texas
1949
Arkansas
1970
Texas*
1991
Texas
A&M
1929
TCU
1950
Texas
1971
Texas
1992
Texas
A&M
1930
Texas
1951
TCU
1972
Texas
1993
Texas
A&M
1931
SMU
1952
Texas
1973
Texas
1994
Texas
Tech
1932
TCU
1953
Rice
1974
Baylor
1995
Texas
1933
Arkansas
1954
Arkansas
1975
Arkansas
1934
Rice
1955
TCU
1976
Houston
1935
SMU*
1956
Texas
A&M
1977
Texas
Note
that in several cases, many of the conference champions were actually
co-champions, but all won the "head-to-head" games versus
the other conference co-champions and thusly were the representative
for the conference in the Cotton Bowl. In 1994, Texas Tech won the
co-championship because Texas A&M was on probation and ineligible
for a bowl game, and Texas Tech had never been to the Cotton Bowl.