Texas vs A&M - 6:30pm on ABC

[pacman 7423]

 

[InkaUtexas 26337]

16 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Hangover from hell

Imagine if you were a drunk aggy last night. Hung over AND you know you got your ass kicked.

[Horn Dogg 4169]

2 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

Well, we never used to play for a trophy. IIRC, they didn’t introduce that thing until like 2007 sometime around there.

Like most aggy “traditions,” this one was recently introduced.  

[totallynotabuttpirate 5408]

And spent all your jizz jar money on tickets. 

[StassneyHorn 6687]

18 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Hangover from hell

WEED/Blue Gatorade

[Deej 77148]

We need a thread for the roll call of all the pussies that feared aggy going in to last night's game. 

[tx 3 putt 77897]

Texas A&M was averaging 200 yards rushing (208.4), 200 passing (208.7) & 32.5 points pg. Texas held the Aggies to 102 rushing, 146 passing & A&M's offense did not score in UT's victory. The Horns shutout (0-2) an A&M offense that led SEC (2nd FBS) in red zone offense (95.6%)

 

[EastTexan 662]

46 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

I liked how Sark immediately put a stop to the unnecessary, A&M mid-field logo stomping.

Yea, but we were laughing.

[BurntOrange&White 40424]

3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Texas A&M was averaging 200 yards rushing (208.4), 200 passing (208.7) & 32.5 points pg. Texas held the Aggies to 102 rushing, 146 passing & A&M's offense did not score in UT's victory. The Horns shutout (0-2) an A&M offense that led SEC (2nd FBS) in red zone offense (95.6%)

 

Texas A&M running backs had 20 carries for 40 yards at 2 YPC. 

[HenryJames 66274]

45 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

NSIAP

 

lol Trey Zuhn

[CosmoDog 342]

11 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

Fuck Aggy. Will post tomorrow if anyone gives a fuck. Defense was absolute rock hard. Felt more like 31-0 than 17-7

If not for a couple of Quinn miscues, it would have been. It was a beat down.

[tbone_ 14249]

What does this mean?

[tx 3 putt 77897]

1 minute ago, tbone_ said:

What does this mean?

 

fuck

yo 

mama !

[Born to Run 6581]

56 minutes ago, Leanderman said:

Instead of Collin last night the gomers would have been better off having this guy calling plays?

Well he did rock at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance.

[BurntOrange&White 40424]

2 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

What does this mean?

Duncanville really hates Desoto

[tx 3 putt 77897]

this should be in the louvre 

 

 

[DFW Horn 6498]

16 minutes ago, AbeFroman said:

btw 55 for the Aggies is a dude from Desoto.  They know each other

While amusing, I don't think double-birds on social media is appropriate for a Texas Football player even if it is directed at an aggy player. Discipline is coming, in-house, me thinks.

[Dnaguy 12322]

1 hour ago, mdmost said:

It was beautiful watching our defense just whip the other side with ease. That's a championship level defense that PK has built...and that's with Sweat and Murphy gone. Guys stepping up like Broughton and Burke. The 4th down stop felt like Stoney Clark in the Cotton Bowl. Just need the offense to not make mistakes. That's what did us in against Georgia. Sark has to beat the soft low passes out of Quinn's head. Or run the ball when the field gets tight. Or get Arch in there so you're committed to running the ball with a guy better built to take the punishment. 

Weird to think that the team as a whole still hasn’t played a whole 4 quarters of football.

Defense has. 
Specialties teams phase definitely hasn’t.

With the Offense, I’d say outside of the early cupcakes, we haven’t played more than 3 quarters of competent football.

[BurntOrange&White 40424]

Just now, DFW Horn said:

While amusing, I don't think double-birds on social media is appropriate for a Texas Football player even if it is directed at an aggy player. Discipline is coming, in-house, me thinks.

I’m sure Sark will send a sternly worded letter 

[Daichee Bell 2979]

9 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Look at Zuhn in this sequence.. 

 

I’ve gotta say, I was very suspect on that Kenny Baker hire, both Collins and Broughton have improved. Hope he can continue on that trajectory.

[Texas Wahoo 3472]

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Texas is like the rich, successful high school friend who comes into town for a visit and guilts you into inviting him to a party, only for all your friends to love him while you sit in the corner eating Cheetos. After 14 years in the SEC, Texas A&M still hasn't made a conference championship game, while Texas is now headed to Atlanta in Year 1. Still, Cheetos are delicious.

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[BigDHornfan 6587]

[UpperWestside 6210]

I work as a server and had one aggy couple that came in near the beginning of the game. They were watching it on their phone and I asked them who they wanted to win. “We’re rooting for A&M!” 
 

All I said back to them was I hope you get beat by a 100.

[Armybrat 40977]

11 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

And spent all your jizz jar money on tickets. 

My brother’s aggy son in law was asking $1,200 for his extra ticket. 
He sold it for $1,300, and the buyer tried to squeeze himself & his girlfriend in it. 
SIL is 6’4”, 300 and sitting in his seatback, so they couldn’t encroach on his space.

[Pato del Muerto 52836]

50 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

First real exposure to him talking was the part of this post-game that I watched. He looks like a typical meathead football coach, but he speaks like someone of good intelligence.

Doesn’t make him a great coach in and of itself, but being smart is better than the alternative in most professions. Which could bode well for them/ except for the fact that he doesn’t sound like them so they won’t give him any kind of runway before running him off the Ben though they loved him as DC.  I mean, he started from a position of “we should have done better but at least he’s not mark stoops” with the fanbase. 

[Armybrat 40977]

2 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

I work as a server and had one aggy couple that came in near the beginning of the game. They were watching it on their phone and I asked them who they wanted to win. “We’re rooting for A&M!” 
 

All I said back to them was I hope you get beat by a 100.

No tip, I assume. Lol

[Surly Bevo 25488]

20 minutes ago, pacman said:

 

The hilarious thing is if you go back and watch the game their dipshit band was also playing into aggy offensive snaps.  Dumbshits, the lot of them

[Texasrocks 2186]

5 minutes ago, Daichee Bell said:

I’ve gotta say, I was very suspect on that Kenny Baker hire, both Collins and Broughton have improved. Hope he can continue on that trajectory.

Norton has also improved over the season. I don't remember hearing Lole's name last night, but he played really well against Kentucky. The d-line gets better every week.

[kingkoopa6 8461]

36 minutes ago, speed817 said:

 

[The Ace of Aces 5322]

9 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

While amusing, I don't think double-birds on social media is appropriate for a Texas Football player even if it is directed at an aggy player. Discipline is coming, in-house, me thinks.

55 is the guy that was shoving his hands in his face and trying to fight when they both got double personal fouls. Simmons didn’t deserve one at all imo. He prob shouldn’t have listed it but fuck that 55 dude. Just one of several dirty ass players aggy has on its roster. 

[Daichee Bell 2979]

51 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

I love us running out at "Goodbye to Texas University" and going right through the gay yell leaders.

This was my eight-year-old daughter’s first experience with Texas and Texas A&M. They showed the yell leaders.

her….”who is that guy”

me…. “those are the Aggies’s cheerleaders.”

her…”WHAT?!? That’s weird.”

From the mouths of babes. 
 

[Kwix 2255]

 

[CastHorn 823]

There was a lot of sad drunk aggies last night. I was walking to the west campus parking garage and this kid tried to scale a 15 foot drop from a ramp. Luckily a tree kind of broke his fall. He walked away as if he didn’t just fracture his tailbone. I had a conversation with an Aggie Band member who was walking alone with his trumpet, head all shaved. Excellent guy, but he was pretty beat up about the loss. 

[dcar00 14580]

I would like to hear more about the bullshit music being played right up to our snaps.   Sankey needs to get control of this.  The same shit was happening at Vandy.  There needs to be some sort of rule/statement and they can't expect the refs to deal with that.  have an SEC official at the game on the home sideline or in the booth.

[Tonesky 1003]

10 hours ago, Modessit said:

I was stuck in the boonies watching on my phone so couldn't discuss it at the time, but on the Ewers fumble - it looked like he was just starting to slide down when the ball was punched out. If that is accurate, then isn't the rule that the QB is marked down where he starts the slide and not where he actually touches the ground? And if that is true, then wouldn't he be considered "down" before the ball got punched out? I know it was very close, but I couldn't hear if it was discussed during the review, or in the thread at that time.

He had definitely begun to slide. I had the same thought. It was not mentioned/discussed at all by the commentators. 

[UTexasFight 9601]

4 hours ago, Pancho said:

Lulz they are saying the crowd was louder for LSU

 

Did we hear mo bamba once?

 

Their dj was supposedly “cooking something up” for this game but I don’t remember hearing anything 

They played it twice 

[gmr548 16634]

10 hours ago, Bevoette said:

A living here in College Station can be a royal pain in the ass

Feel like you could have stopped here.

[Huckleberry 33492]

I watched SEC Football Tonight after the game for the first time. My favorite part was when the host guy said something like "a great job by Sark and Texas, you don't just come into this conference and waltz through the schedule, and they did just that" after one of the other guys says the standard stupidity about it being a gauntlet and it's just so tough week in and week out blah blah blah.

These fucking idiots. Oklahoma sucks but the other three of the last 4 additions to the SEC:

Missouri - Back-to-back CCG appearances in years 2 and 3 when their roster was full of Big 12 players
Texas A&M - Best season in the SEC was their first season in 2012 when their roster was full of Big 12 players
Texas - Reaches CCG in first season

Based on history, coming in and waltzing through that gauntlet of a regular season schedule is EXACTLY what teams do.

[pacman 7423]

29 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

The hilarious thing is if you go back and watch the game their dipshit band was also playing into aggy offensive snaps.  Dumbshits, the lot of them

Yes, it was hilarious. I do believe they (aggy noise makers) caused a false start for their own offense, according to the announcers at least.

[Pimphand 6045]

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[Pato del Muerto 52836]

31 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

 

We had just won the game and that man looks pissed the fuck off. He is not going to play nice next November. 

[Reynolds Woodcock 4870]

57 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Poor Broughton. Dominated his blocker and had it stuffed for a 3 yard loss but didn't get the glory because Burke was unblocked to stuff it for a 3.5 yard loss. 

What a performance by Broughton all night. 

All season, really. It continues to be one of the more surprising senior seasons I can remember. Just an incredible end to his college career. Major props 

[Vermin 3092]

 

[JohnnyTapia 582]

46 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

What does this mean?

Basically what #55 for A&M did on that one play was weak and Simmons doesn’t play that shit 

[bad_teammate 13294]

34 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

 

they low-down

they dirty

they some snitches

I just hate 'em

[MIkeHoncho 1983]

10 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Look at Zuhn in this sequence.. 

 

someone should ask his mom how many times he's watched film already. 

[Dbeasy 15215]

1 hour ago, Joel Klatts burner said:

Anyone know what is up with Bond? Saw Sark talking to him in huddle a few times and sort of seems like he's on the fringe of the "circle of trust" at WR. Wasn't on the same page with Ewers a couple times last night. 

 

1 hour ago, Danimal said:

While he might not be a 100%, he can at least try to run the right routes. That doesn't have anything to do with being injured.

He’s definitely still injured. But there was also a rumor in fall camp that he really really struggled to get the playbook down correctly, which is weird given he came from Bama. He may not be the brightest tool in the shed, not sure. But he’s at least busting his ass to get on the field. Have to respect that. Because he does make a difference. 

[Pato del Muerto 52836]

22 minutes ago, CastHorn said:

There was a lot of sad drunk aggies last night. I was walking to the west campus parking garage and this kid tried to scale a 15 foot drop from a ramp. Luckily a tree kind of broke his fall. He walked away as if he didn’t just fracture his tailbone. I had a conversation with an Aggie Band member who was walking alone with his trumpet, head all shaved. Excellent guy, but he was pretty beat up about the loss. 

These students don’t actually remember playing us, and all theyve been told is how they had the better team every year for the past 12 years and would have won all of those games. I’m sure there was a level of shell shock that the aggy student body hasn’t had since the mid 90s. 

[TreatyOak 16740]

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What I saw at Texas-Texas A&M: Scenes from an essential college football rivalry’s return
David Ubben
Dec 1, 2024

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — As Aggies silently filed out of Kyle Field, Texas fans in burnt orange filling the southeast corner of The House That Johnny Built rubbed salt in their wounds with three letters.

“S-E-C! S-E-C!’ they chanted.

Traditionally, the chant has been reserved for programs expressing their superiority to teams that don’t get to wear the patch on their jerseys. Both Texas and Texas A&M wear it now. And Texas capped its maiden voyage through an SEC schedule with a 17-7 win over A&M for the right to do something A&M has never done: Play for the SEC title.

“Let’s take this s— to Atlanta!” a member of Texas’ equipment staff yelled as they packed up gear on the sidelines in the game’s final minute.

Texas is here. And A&M is left dealing with the fallout of a nightmare resumption of one of college football’s most storied rivalries after a ludicrous 13-year absence fueled by the same pettiness that makes the rivalry so unique and special.

“You’re little bro!” yelled senior linebacker David Gbenda, who made three tackles for a defense that didn’t allow a point to Texas A&M’s offense in the win. Texas A&M’s only points came on a pick six off a Quinn Ewers pass that was tipped at the line of scrimmage.

Texas minister of culture Matthew McConaughey, who moonlights as an A-list Hollywood actor, didn’t need to say a word as defensive lineman Vernon Broughton pounced on a game-sealing fumble. He turned to the crowd and flashed a horns up.

Minutes earlier, a loud bang rang out from inside a suite as the Longhorns stuffed Amari Daniels for a 3-yard loss on fourth-and-1 on the goal line, keeping the Aggies’ deficit at 10 with 4:36 to play.

“Son of a bitch!” a voice echoed through the hall as elevator doors opened.

Thirteen years of waiting ended with Texas’ fight song echoing into the chilly Aggieland night.

“It sucks,” Texas A&M quarterback Marcel Reed said.

Ewers cradled the game ball and smiled as he walked up Texas’ tunnel, unwilling to let anyone else lay a hand on it.

“A win is a win,” he said afterward, downplaying the significance of a ball that might be sitting on his mantle a half century from now, marking the only time the senior will ever play his alma mater’s most hated rival.

Does Ewers keep the game ball from every win?

“I don’t,” he said. “But for some special ones I like to.”

All three decks of the east side of Kyle Field are almost full by the time Kanye West’s “Power” kicks in on the PA system, signaling the team’s entrance for yell practice.

A&M moved the tradition from midnight to 5:30 p.m. Friday to accommodate the football team’s schedule and allow it to attend. It brings plenty more fans out to the stadium, too.

Josiah Brantley, one of five Aggie Yell leaders and a senior at A&M, says Friday night is different from all the yell practices he’d attended before.

Texas A&M president Mark Welsh III tells the crowd that 58 suite holders asked for their suites to be open for yell practice, which concludes with a lengthy fireworks show.

“Tomorrow we get to beat the hell out of Texas,” he says. “I’m not sure life gets better than this.”

Yell leaders, per tradition, take their turns ribbing their rival ahead of Saturday’s game.

“Who trashes their own field?” Jake Carter, head yell leader, asks the crowd, referencing Texas’ loss to Georgia earlier this year when Longhorns fans threw garbage onto the field following a controversial call that was later reversed.

“Coach Schlossnagle never belonged here anyway,” says yell leader Kyler Fife, igniting the crowd with a shot at the baseball coach who left A&M for Texas this summer.

“Tomorrow is personal,” yell leader Grayson Poage says after referring to Texas’ mascot Bevo as a glorified hamburger. “It’s about who runs Texas.”

Sweet-smelling smoke wafts through the air from barrels welded into homemade smokers. If the state of Texas had an official smell, it would be beef being cooked low and slow.

The closer one gets to Kyle Field on Saturday, homemade smokers dwindle and food trucks take their place. Signs acknowledging every family member’s graduation date hang over many of the tents filling Aggie Park east of the stadium.

These two rivals first met in 1894. The old and new clash in a buzzy tailgate scene 130 years later.

A QR code hangs on a sign outside the stadium for fans to enroll in a rewards program. A 12th Man sign sponsored by Valero — oil money does make much of what success A&M and Texas enjoy possible — offers an enticing backdrop for Instagram photos.

A pop-up store sells Lucchese boots, complete with a singer crooning George Strait’s “Amarillo By Morning” through a small speaker. Another sells Mizzen+Main merchandise alongside a banner featuring Texas A&M quarterback Conner Weigman — who was benched last month — as a pitchman.

A field is blocked off with “no tailgating” signs. It serves as a fitting playing field for a fitting prologue for Saturday night’s game. There’s no need to pick teams. One side features kids in burnt orange Arch Manning and Quinn Ewers jerseys. The other: Kids wearing maroon 12th Man and No. 2 Johnny Manziel jerseys.

The silence of fans walking up the ramp leading to the northwest corner of the stadium is occasionally interrupted by an A&M fan drumming the familiar rhythm of “Hullabaloo, caneck, caneck!” — the opening words of the “Aggie War Hymn” — on a light post along the sidewalk.

Reflexively, any Aggie fan in earshot responds with a “Whoop!”

Oscar Torres Jr. graduated from Texas A&M in 1977. He went there because he liked the engineering program. He convinced his younger brother Jorge to attend A&M, too. Jorge graduated in 1990. Another brother graduated in 1986.

Ten more nephews from the family later graduated from A&M, all convinced by Oscar Jr. On Saturday, he drove five hours to Aggieland from Laredo and sat outside the west side of Kyle Field with a handful of family members drinking Miller Lites and embracing a game they waited more than a decade to see.

Oscar Torres III was 19 the last time the two rivals played and remembered sadly walking out of the stadium as Texas fans celebrated. He’s 32 now and graduated in 2014.

“This game just permeates everything,” he says. “My neighborhood has a group chat and nobody ever talks sports. But when this game comes around, it’s all everybody is talking about.”

Mike Speller, a banker, graduated from Texas in 1991 and flew down from Connecticut in part to see family for Thanksgiving, but also to go to the game with his son, a ninth-grader whose dream school is Texas.

They paid $3,600 for a pair of tickets.

“We waited to see if tickets were going to get any more reasonable,” he says. “They only got more unreasonable.”

Mark Rhodes, a psychologist and 1991 graduate of Texas A&M, brought his wife Trish to the game on Friday from Amarillo. They paid $1,600 for their pair on the secondary market. As soon as Texas’ SEC arrival signaled the rivalry was coming back, they decided they were going to be at the renewal.

“We would have paid pretty much anything to come to this game,” Trish Rhodes says. “It didn’t matter.”

They aren’t alone in their desperation. Texas A&M police say they arrested one fan who ran past security at an entrance. Two more came to the game dressed as construction workers with fake credentials, hard hats and reflective vests. They are arrested for criminal trespassing. Another is removed from the stadium after gaining access with a fake ticket.

Outside the east side of Kyle Field around 90 minutes before the game, a group of Stormtroopers fresh off a tour of Tatooine walks by waving an A&M flag. An A&M fan in a maroon shirt looks at them and smiles. His shirt featured scripture: Psalm 75:10.

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,” it reads.

Before the game, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte chats with McConaughey, who paces across the field and pauses to talk briefly with ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, who brought his dog Peter to witness history, too.

“When I first took the job, my thought was we have to bring this rivalry back,” says Del Conte, who left TCU to become Texas’ AD in 2017. “Everyone loves the game. It’s part of history.”

“The SEC was natural for lots of reasons but one of those was rekindling this rivalry,” Texas president Jay Hartzell says. “We started this journey back in 2020. The Longhorns wanted to get this rivalry resumed. To see it finally coming to fruition is fantastic.”

Texas dominates the first half 17-0, then holds off the Aggies’ comeback bid in the second. After singing “The Eyes of Texas” with the band after the win, some Texas players sprint to midfield and prepare to celebrate on the A&M midfield logo. Security and coach Steve Sarkisian quickly shoo them away.

Another Texas cheerleader, seeking space, runs toward midfield with a giant Texas flag. Security stops him.

“We’re not planting that!” a Texas support staffer yells.

“I’m just waving it. I know better than that. I wave it after every game,” the cheerleader says, before doing so.

“I just watched Ohio State and Michigan get in a full-fledged brawl in my hotel room today and I just didn’t think it was right,” Sarkisian says. We shouldn’t be on their logo. Shouldn’t be planting any flags on their logo, and I’d like, whenever that day comes, to get the same respect in return.”

The fight songs of both schools take a moment to insult the other. A&M’s ball boys wear white “Saw ’em off” hats on the sidelines. The band’s name tags all read “BTHO t.u.”

The prevailing tone, however, radiates far less hate and much more excitement. Aside from a few A&M and Texas staffers needing to be separated in pregame warmups, Saturday’s game lacks the fisticuffs and ugly scenes that color much of Rivalry Week elsewhere in the sport.

Most of the 109,028 fans who arrive as part of the third-largest crowd in Kyle Field history eventually leave disappointed. One of the wildest weekends in A&M history — in a game with stakes as high as almost any ever played on that field — ends in sadness at the hands of its most hated rival.

But so much of this rivalry’s existence necessitates this game actually being played. Finally, after 13 long years, it was.

[Huckleberry 33492]

Remind Ubben that Oklahoma is Texas's most hated rival. Texas A&M is our most annoying rival.