I hated practicing in the heat. I loved playing in the cold and slop. I'm glad we're not in the SEC. The Big 12 had a nice blend of weather for games but I guarantee that the players other than the WRs would rather play in the cold than in the heat.
To each their own, I'm the opposite, I can practice in the heat, and get through it. But practice in the cold, is just torture. Same for games.
Yes, at least in the Big XII we had some games down south. It was the cold games that I didn't attend.
We just have opposite preferences. I prefer the excitement of the SEC over the gerpy big ten.