(07-15-2019 04:35 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  Shreveport is considered a exclave of Texas.

Has casinos and also Rodeo.

Heavy ties to the booming DFW metro.

It's a quasi Texas bowl vs. another southern place to play.

Shreveport does have that feel to it. Like a lot of western Louisiana, the Texas influence seeps over. The folks there definitely tend to identify more with Dallas than with, say, New Orleans, and IIRC, on NFL coverage maps, the Cowboys are usually treated as Shreveport's home team, not the Saints. The only exception is college sports - Shreveport is an LSU town, with some LA-Tech, Grambling, and even LA-Monroe people - through and through, no links to Texas schools.

That said, Shreveport is still 190 miles from DFW. That's a long way, too long for it to have any real ties to it that will matter to a visitor for a bowl game.