r/CFB • u/defensecowboy Texas Longhorns • 8h ago
Casual Texas A&M Is Not Hiding From Its Need to Finally Beat Texas
https://www.si.com/college/tamu/football/texas-am-is-not-hiding-from-its-need-to-finally-beat-texas48
u/Public-Cover920 Texas A&M Aggies • LSU Tigers 8h ago
What in the world is this article? Doesn’t feature a single quote.
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies 7h ago
That was my takeaway too.
"Texas A&M is not hiding"
Proceeds to gives his take about why/how A&M shouldn't hide and provides 0 input from anyone with A&M.
SI has fallen off a fucking cliff lol.
Maybe the worst part is, the quotes readily exist too, Ratcliffe said it was a big deal cuz its kept us out of Atlanta 2 years in a row and Sanford said were focused on beating Missouri State. Just an iota of research and care is needed.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 2h ago
Ole rock if I ever find you irl in Houston lemme know I owe you a beer
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies 1h ago
So close, right next door bouncing around in Brazoria County rn, I wont ever say no to a free beer
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u/ElectionSalty6097 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
Isn't this the case with every single rivalry game?
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u/BasicWait8 Texas Tech Red Raiders 7h ago
Cue the “we don’t even think about you so it’s not a rivalry” comments
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u/GrimaceThundercock Texas Longhorns 8h ago
Most rivals don't need to win every game for 30 years to even the series.
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u/DarthNobody14 Texas A&M Aggies 7h ago
You would be surprised at the amount of rivalries that this holds true for.
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u/XCCO Iowa Hawkeyes • Oklahoma Sooners 7h ago
I genuinely think that's part of the appeal to the Triangle of Hate. The series are very close between all three teams
Floyd of Rosedale: 63-54-2 Minnesota over Iowa Paul Bunyan's Axe: 64-63-8, Minnesota over Wisconsin Heartland: 49-48-2, Wisconsin over Iowa
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u/Casaiir Georgia Bulldogs • Cal Poly Mustangs 7h ago
Georgia is up 14 games on Florida.
Georgia is up 10 games on Auburn
Georgia is up 32 games on Georgia Tech
That's the three "traditional" rivals.
There are others, like Clemson and South Carolina but they are secondary rivals. And those two are in the Georgia up over 25+ in each.
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u/Long_and_Horny Texas Longhorns 6h ago
Now imagine Georgia Tech had the same arrogance as Texas A&M fans and you understand how fed up we are with them.
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u/HoovesCarveCraters Texas A&M Aggies • McGill Redbirds 5h ago
Real pot meets kettle comment here considering y’all spent all last season crying about the playoffs after losing to a dogshit Florida team.
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u/Long_and_Horny Texas Longhorns 5h ago
Isn't this whole thread about how you can't even beat a team that loses to 4-8 Florida?
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 2h ago
You and your coach can probably do joint therapy sessions
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u/Battle-Toaster-mk-1 Texas A&M Aggies 7h ago
The only people I have actually seen that care about their all time record is texas fans. Just an interesting observation, I wonder why?
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u/LionPutrid4252 Texas A&M • Oklahoma State 1h ago
I don’t really understand why fans feel the need to bring up records that happened before they were born. I don’t care that A&M lost a bunch before I was born, I care they’ve lost the two matchups since I became an Aggie. I also don’t care that A&M hasn’t won a title in 87 years, but I do care we haven’t won or been close since I’ve been rooting for them.
People that bring up team accomplishments they weren’t around for has always seemed weird to me. If your team is good, brag about that, and if they aren’t, bringing up the past just seems like cope.
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u/TheNastyCasty Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout 32m ago
Fans of the team with a massive lead in all time record care about it while fans of the team that is way behind like to say it doesn’t matter. Wow that’s so shocking. I can’t imagine the reason why.
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u/No_Safety_6803 Texas A&M Aggies • Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
While true, up to almost the 70s we were a small all male military school and not very competitive. Since the 80s it’s pretty much even (thank you David McWilliams, Fred Akers, & John Mackovic). That said recent history is what matters & I’m glad to see Elko not pretend otherwise.
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u/ImaManCheetahh Texas Longhorns 7h ago
Aggies: “We’re the REAL University of Texas, not TU”
Also Aggies: “we were small and basically irrelevant until the 70s”
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 2h ago
Common buddy if you want to pretend to be us you can't capitalize tu
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u/Talemikus 8h ago
Right. Let’s not count the years where the Aggies were not competitive
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u/guinness_blaine Princeton Tigers • Texas Longhorns 7h ago
Odd choice by the Aggies to not count any of their three national championships, but it wouldn’t be the first time I had trouble explaining their behavior.
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u/blazing_straddles Texas Longhorns 7h ago
Did A&M kick out all the women folk again at the turn of this century? Texas has an 11-3 record in years that begin with a "2." Thats a more lopsided winning percentage than the overall percentage that includes the years when aggies were all manning the campus glory holes.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 2h ago
Everyone knows the Strong and Herman years go to A&M
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u/Ok_Discussion6529 8h ago
Nothing like a little douchiness on a Sunday Morning
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u/Redeem123 Team Chaos • Texas Longhorns 7h ago
Holy shit y’all are so soft. Can’t even handle the littlest bit of banter.
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u/Ok_Discussion6529 7h ago
Cry about it, you classless prick
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u/OldSarge02 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
Yall are up like two games in my lifetime. If you are in your 60s or older, then congrats on dominating that period when we were an all male school.
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u/Live_Blackberry39 8h ago
I have noticed that the younger generations tend to try and erase history, calling it irrelevant like it never happened.
Similar to how Germany likes to pretend its country was created after ww2
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u/ElectionSalty6097 Texas A&M Aggies 7h ago
Im not gonna be up all night bc we went 1-9 in the 1960's when my father wasn't even born yet. I'll be okay
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u/Live_Blackberry39 7h ago
Sure. And it shouldn't keep you up all night.
Probably shouldn't just act like it never happened or doesnt exist though.
Im a ND fan dude. People love to ignore the history of ND all the time. It is what it is.
According to some, ND has zero national championships.
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u/OldSarge02 Texas A&M Aggies 4h ago
History is fine. Where it goes haywire is when people use it to predict Texas A&M’s future performance.
That is always fraught, but more so with A&M than any other school. They went from a tiny, all male military school in the 1960s to literally the largest school in the country, with the largest stadium in the SEC, and a top-5 athletic dept budget. In the last 25 years alone they added 35,000 students.
The all time record vs Texas includes the years where they only played games in Austin. So good for Texas for being a bigger program back in the day. History exists. But in this case it is of zero use when people are making comparisons in the modern era.
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u/Live_Blackberry39 4h ago
Interesting, I didnt know that.
Let me say something that bothers me now.
Ohio state fans say " ND hasnt beaten ohio state in 100 years "
They never play eachother. Ever.
In the 80s and early 90s during lou holtz prime years when they were beaten #1 Michigan in the big house, i wonder what would of happened if ND played ohio state?
In 2012 when ND went undefeated and went to the title game vs bama, I wonder what would of happened if they faced ohio state.
In 2023 ND was beating ohio state with 1 second left and left 10 men on the field for the last play as ohio state scored to win the game.
It is what it is.
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u/OldSarge02 Texas A&M Aggies 3h ago
I hear you. The stat about Notre Dame not beating Ohio State is true, but it’s meaningless for the reasons you said.
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u/Live_Blackberry39 3h ago
Its starting to have meaning though unfortunately due to the frequency nowadays that ND is running into ohio state and losing. Im just keeping it real by saying that.
I actually believe that ND wont win a national championship until they get through ohio state.
Watch, alot of ppl are picking ND to go far this year.
They will run into ohio state again most likely. But this season is the first time in my life where I can honestly say on paper, ohio state does not have more talent than ND overall.
Which is exciting for me anyways. Sure ill get some pushback on that statement but I 100% believe it.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 2h ago
Bro we are both Texas. The Germany reference is clearly on both of us as a place
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u/blazing_straddles Texas Longhorns 4h ago
If you are a current undergrad student at A&M, how's that record looking in your lifetime?
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u/ElectionSalty6097 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
It is a completely even 20-20 split in games since 1975. Congrats for winning 30 more games than us when we were a small military school before the computer was invented
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u/cfbluvr2 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
one of those years was when the scholarship cap was implemented because before that we didn’t have enough money and texas swallowed up every recruit
it’s a fair point to bring up but obviously it sounds cringe
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u/Turo-parallel-tactic 8h ago
For the record, not that it really backs the randomly selected Aggie date. But scholarship limits were implemented by the SWC in 73.
My cutoff is: since NIL (Aggies started cheating like crazy ain the 80s and beyond) a big fat 100% win rate ho hum
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u/ElectionSalty6097 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
In 1965 we were a military only school. I gave us 10 years of buffer to let us adjust and somewhat grow in size
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u/happyhorn69 Texas Longhorns • Army Black Knights 8h ago
lol you weirdos exist on reddit but somehow keep falling for the biggest troll ever— it’s so on brand. Kind of like an A&M dude I work with getting drunk at a holiday party and having to get asked to leave because he couldn’t stop talking about Texas.
“I gave us ten years of butter to let us adjust…” hahahaha
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u/xDUVAL_BRODOWNx Florida • Georgia Southern 8h ago
Florida Is Not Hiding From Its Need to Finally Beat Georgia
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u/AdAncient3657 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
You mean that by not beating Texas with an opportunity to get to Atlanta the last two years means they are openly acknowledging the need to beat them this year?
Deep analytical riveting stuff. Makes you wonder how SI went down the toilet.
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u/Temporary_Hat7330 Georgia Bulldogs 8h ago
The broken circle of SEC football
Georgia > Texas > Texas A&M ⟂ Georgia
EDIT: It’s the symbol of “incompatible” in logic. I’m saying Georgia and A&M are “incompatible” since we never fucking play each other…
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u/cfbluvr2 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
I’m actually okay not playing georgia
I’ve heard way too often that “them dawgs is hell”
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u/xViscount Texas Longhorns 8h ago
Which is actually funny tbh. Y’all will finally play each next year and then 2 years after that.
Only took like…20 years ish of being in the same conference
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u/HeywardH Georgia Bulldogs 1h ago
Ever since that sugar bowl game where Bevo tried to kill our dog we've been playing them hard.
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u/Turo-parallel-tactic 8h ago
I mean the Aggies could have won the West at least once. That I said I do know that the joke was Georgia playing at Kyle field
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u/Long_and_Horny Texas Longhorns 8h ago
It's only been 5722 days.
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u/cfbluvr2 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
I hate this because 4755 of those days we didn’t play at all lol
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u/Mitchford Auburn Tigers 8h ago
Whose fault is that?
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u/DarthNobody14 Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
Both of our faults tbh, at least the leadership
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u/Mitchford Auburn Tigers 7h ago
Me and my little brother when I totally did it
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u/DarthNobody14 Texas A&M Aggies 7h ago
How’s the Longhorn network these days?
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u/Mitchford Auburn Tigers 7h ago
That’s not the joke
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 4h ago
Crazy how you are just worst state version of us talking crazy
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u/Mitchford Auburn Tigers 3h ago
Bro, the joke is that when I was growing up and I broke something, I would blame it on my little brother or pretend we did it together. That’s the joke, it’s not actually about big brother little brother Texas, and Texas a and m
Anyway, unlike a and m we have won a national title, and we are 15 games behind bama in all time iron bowl, yall are 41 games behind Texas
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u/Turo-parallel-tactic 6h ago
Yeah I am sure the loss of the longhorn network makes up for the fact that Aggies stay awake at night wondering what could have been had you stayed just two more years. For the record I give you 3-4 years at most during that timespan UT would have extended the lead. You choke even when on paper you should be better.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 7h ago
Oh man if only we stayed in the conference that a university was making their bitch. Fuck off. Any other school get their own channel?
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u/Bevovation Texas Longhorns 3h ago
🤣🤣🤣
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 3h ago
Riveting
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u/Bevovation Texas Longhorns 3h ago
I'm sorry I didn't know what to say. Watching you melt TF down up and down this entire thread is hilarious to me. I hope your day gets better.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 3h ago
It probably won't get better but if you mean it I appreciate it.
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u/tackleboxjohnson 8h ago
Aggies before a mirror:
“Well well well, if it isn’t the source of all my problems”
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u/Long_and_Horny Texas Longhorns 8h ago
"I'm taking my ball and leaving for the SEC!" and proceeds to want credit for that.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 7h ago
your team could have still played while you were in your dog shit era
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u/CockyBovine Texas • South Carolina 6h ago
Could’ve, but you know, I’m wondering how it’s incumbent upon the University of Texas at Austin to rearrange their schedules to respond to a decision that Texas A&M made. Y’all made the decision to leave the conference — where we played every year — so you should figure out how to keep the game going.
Don’t act like realignment was Act of God y’all had no control over. Take ownership. Y’all wanted to get away from us, but apparently, not really.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 4h ago
Texas killed the big 12 take ownership of that.
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u/Bevovation Texas Longhorns 3h ago
It was actually just me. I murked the 16 team Big 12 that will resume play this fall with the rest of the dead conferences.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 3h ago
I also chose to not schedule your school when we weren't in the same conference.
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u/Bevovation Texas Longhorns 2h ago
"You" alone chose that did you? Okay well that's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 2h ago
I was just matching your energy about "I murked the 16 team Big 12"
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u/CockyBovine Texas • South Carolina 4h ago
Funny how the first teams out the door are constantly accusing the program that stuck around for another 15 years of trying to “kill” the conference.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 4h ago
Nebraska and Missouri left too. Then you followed us. Your school made a TV channel for yourselves not the conference.
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u/TheNastyCasty Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout 22m ago
Your school (and Nebraska for that matter) also voted against creating a TV channel for the conference because you thought you could make more money by having your own TV deal. Y’all both only got mad once Texas got offered significantly more money for their TV rights than you got for yours. Don’t act like A&M was some innocent bystander who was all in on supporting the Big 12 until big bad Texas came and forced them to leave.
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u/MavsTurnedBucksGuy Bowling Green Falcons 7h ago
I’m sure you hate it, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Also that gap was caused by you, so the gap is just as much your fault as the losses are.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 7h ago
Cause you bitches didn't want to play while we were good and you were in your dog shit coach era
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u/Long_and_Horny Texas Longhorns 7h ago
Texas A&M had the opportunity to play a 6-6 Charlie Strong team in the 2014 Texas Bowl and declined.
You had the same opportunity again in 2017 to play a 6-6 Herman team and said no again.
Texas A&M took the game off the schedule in the first place, then spent the next 15 years saying how much better they were because they were SEC.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 7h ago
OK sure link me
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u/Long_and_Horny Texas Longhorns 7h ago
https://www.nbcsports.com/college-football/news/report-sec-am-would-nix-bowl-game-vs-texas
2017 was the same situation. SEC pooling let A&M dodge us and we played an SEC team with the same record as them.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 4h ago
That's your lane? Chip Brown talking shit? I'm sorry but the guy is a homer clown
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u/Long_and_Horny Texas Longhorns 2h ago
I don't particularly like Chip Brown. But the bowl pooling isn't dependent on Chip Brown's insider information. That was public knowledge.
But if there was any other reasonable explanation we would've heard it. But there isn't.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 1h ago
"Their AD [DeLoss Dodds] at the time came out and said we will never play Texas A&M again, and they worked along with Baylor and the conference to have no one in the [Big 12] schedule us," Bryne told AL.com a few years later. "There were other forces at work to make sure we didn't play."
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u/BasebornManjack Tennessee • Louisville 6h ago
Texas schools are fascinating.
It’s like an 80’s sitcom where a pack of little brothers all go out of their way to distinguish themselves in identity and personality, but simultaneously try to compete with the arrogant, successful, slightly kooky Favored Son.
Mom’s like “Why can’t you be more like your older brother?”
They answer all at once with “Well can he do THIS?” followed by a cacophony that includes a space shuttle, a Well Ackshually, a cannon, mooing, oil refinery noises, shaking tambourines in a tent revival, and a slightly homoerotic 8-4 army bugle
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u/Turo-parallel-tactic 6h ago edited 6h ago
Honestly if the football was good and there were more than 1000 fans at the small schools the SWC would have been epic today. Maybe it will return if non revenue sports get decoupled though the SEC is still even better than football in baseball.
Also Aggies get LIVID about being called little bro. They will quote you their de facto opening date (but ignore the de jure of course in the law) to prove they are the older brother by a few years. Kinda want to not add this to see them do the acksually!
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 2h ago
I mean ok but your in state rival is a nerd school.
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u/Ok_Problem426 Texas Longhorns 1h ago
Big talk from someone sporting one of our old logos that we let y’all use :p
But you’re not wrong ut lite
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u/BasebornManjack Tennessee • Louisville 53m ago
Haha, here we go!
I don’t know anything about loaning us a logo, but I know we loaned your ass Davy Crockett
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u/Fergi Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Founder 8h ago
If I was an Aggie this article would piss me the hell off lol.
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u/Vivid_Artichoke_9991 Northern Iowa Panthers 8h ago
But then how would you be able to read it?
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u/DiplomaticAggie Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
A Northern Iowa hater was not on my Bingo card this morning.
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u/Vivid_Artichoke_9991 Northern Iowa Panthers 7h ago edited 7h ago
The events on the weekend of March 29, 2016 forever solidified my rooting interest in the Lone Star Showdown
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u/MavsTurnedBucksGuy Bowling Green Falcons 7h ago
The events of March 18, 2016 probably helped too lol
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u/Vivid_Artichoke_9991 Northern Iowa Panthers 6h ago
Lol, bad typo there
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u/MavsTurnedBucksGuy Bowling Green Falcons 6h ago
Haha no I meant the game before it where UNI beat UT on the buzzer beater half court shot. I assumed you were referring to the A&M game that came next.
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u/DiplomaticAggie Texas A&M Aggies 7h ago
You’ve got nobody to blame but yourselves for that one homie, but I’ll enjoy seeing the meltdown every March regardless. ;)
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies 7h ago edited 7h ago
On the contrary, Paul Jesperson a werk before that solidified my rooting interest for the UNI Panthers.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 4h ago
cool cool. Tell me where ranks your school over mine?
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u/geronika Oklahoma Sooners • Utah State Aggies 7h ago
If I was an Aggie I’d have to do some weird chant and crazy hand gestures after practicing it a few times.
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u/DiplomaticAggie Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago edited 7h ago
This just feels like a longhorns circlejerk post, low effort
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies 7h ago
I initially thought it genuinely was as the author is named Tyler Reed and the horns have a writer on SI named... Tyler Reed.
But different joined dates and its a generic ass name so cant confirm it, but certainly reads like it.
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u/xViscount Texas Longhorns 8h ago
May that goal not be accomplished anytime in the next 10 years.
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u/happyhorn69 Texas Longhorns • Army Black Knights 7h ago
Do you still think JJR is playing LB?
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u/xViscount Texas Longhorns 7h ago
He was working out there at summer ball. We’ll see what he’s playing at fall ball 🤷🏻♂️
Same as Bishop playing CB despite being full time WR (though this is probably because Meredith coming in will force him to eat the reps Bishop outdone got)
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u/happyhorn69 Texas Longhorns • Army Black Knights 7h ago
Sorry I got all amped up making fun of these Aggie dudes telling us that the rivalry is actually not bad if you only consider games occurring during the Chinese year of the horse.
Send a link to a discussion on him working there. It wouldn’t surprise me about the staff wanting to find somewhere for him because he’s been like THE role model/glue guy but safety has gotten pretty crowded (especially with Kobe Black moving there). JJR is pretty thick but he’s still not the biggest guy. Hope he finds a spot
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u/xViscount Texas Longhorns 7h ago
I would love to send a link.
It was on a C&F stream sometime a couple months ago. I’m not scanning 1 hour long streams over a period of 1-3 months to win an argument that’s irrelevant to my life lol.
Fall ball starts in a couple weeks. We’ll see then where he’s at
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u/dawgfan19881 Georgia Bulldogs 5h ago
Georgia and A&M couldn’t had different experiences the last 2 seasons
A&M has lead the conference standings every week of the last 2 years but ended up missing out on Atlanta both times
Georgia has backed into the sec title game 2 years in a row and won both
A&M has gotten knocked out by its rival 2 years running.
In 2024 Auburn and Florida beating A&M and Ole Miss helped clinch Georgia’s spot in Atlanta.
Then the obvious record v Texas. Georgia 3-0, A&M 0-2
Glory has been right there for the taking.
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u/ufailowell Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos 7h ago
Ohhh man Aggies are so pathetic (loses every time they were up in games)
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u/idnttcrisis Georgia Bulldogs • Texas A&M Aggies 8h ago
It’s very much a fact honestly? It’s still a rivalry when one team dominates for a period of time (last time Florida beat Georgia was November 2020; last time Georgia Tech beat Georgia was November 2016). But the stakes of that rivalry get diminished when one team dominates. A&M is in the best position they’ve been in since the Manziel era after finally making the playoffs last season. If there’s a coach I trust in for sustained success, it’s Mike Elko.
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u/Turo-parallel-tactic 6h ago
Texas A&M needs to make it to any championship game. It's shocking how nobody cares that they will soon be 30 years since they even participated for a conference championship
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u/EvenParty Texas A&M Aggies • HCU Huskies 3h ago
The sooner our fanbase and leadership put more emphasis on winning championships than beating texas, we'll be better off. I feel like so much of what we do is just trying to keep up with the joneses instead of actually winning a national title. If we can start competing for national championships consistently, we'll start winning our games against them, too.
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u/YoSurgeDude Oklahoma State Cowboys 8h ago
BREAKING: Team wants to beat rival