Anyone have any experience with an agent at a non-hub airport issuing a first class boarding pass on a connecting flight when the EUA didn't go through?

My experience with HP (which only EUA's their own), is that the agents at IAH or AUS will issue the first class boarding passes on the connecting flights (even to me, a lowly CO Silver for another two weeks) out of PHX even though it's much earlier than 2 hours before the connecting flight's departure time.

I'm curious if CO does this, because this -- plus the "capacity controls" on EUA seats -- would really screw Elites in the hub cities.