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The Texas–Texas A&M football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies. [2] The rivalry was played every year between 1915 and 2011, until A&M left the Big 12 Conference to join the Southeastern Conference [3] during the 2010–12 Southeastern Conference realignment as a part of the wider 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment.
Overall, Texas won the game about 71% of the time, which led to an incredibly fierce and intense rivalry. The two programs have met 79 times and have had many big games. The meeting in 1969 is the true Game of the Century commemorating the 100th year of college football, which led to the Longhorns' 1969 national championship.
The Texas Longhorns football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the University of Texas in the Big 12 Conference. Since the establishment of the team in 1893, Texas has appeared in 57 bowl games with a record of 31-24-2. Included in these games are two BCS National Championship Game ...
The annual football game with Texas A&M usually took place on the weekend of Thanksgiving each year, though it was moved to the first weekend in December in 1994 due to A&M's TV restriction during probation. In either case, the Texas-Texas A&M game was the last regular-season contest for each team. The Longhorns lead the series, 76–37–5.
DJ Campbell continues to show some growing pains at right guard; he had a costly holding penalty with nine minutes left in the third quarter of a 27-27 game, putting Texas in a second-and-20 ...
Kansas State shut down the offense, 23–0, the first time Texas was shut out in ten years. Sitting at 3–5, hope was almost lost for a bowl game. However, Texas rebounded with 3 straight wins over Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and stunning #23 West Virginia. The Horns were then defeated by #5 TCU on Thanksgiving, 48–10, ending the season at 6–6.
The two Texas universities have a long history between each other. [2] They first met on the football field on November 3, 1897, with Texas winning the contest 18–10. [3] [4] [5] In 1898, the schools met twice, with Texas winning both games. [6]
The average crowd during that span of time for a Baylor-Texas game in Austin was 7,224. Over the entirety of that five-season sample size, Baylor averaged 5,634 fans at its home games while Texas ...