After over a decade off, the biggest rivalry in Texas returned over the weekend, with a spot in the SEC title game on the line.
Dave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun.
Tucker's 40-yard kick sailed through the uprights, giving the Longhorns the win and the"eternal scoreboard," as coach Mack Brown called it. Meanwhile, Grant and his crew barreled up the steps, elbowing their way through a sea of Aggies before spotting a maroon-clad fan who had a football-shaped bulge under his jersey. The stadium police helped Grant's colleague, Trent Norwood, get the ball from the fan.
Matt Krehbiel, a 2023 Texas grad, was the rare Longhorns fan to be at Yell Practice, a guest of the family of his fiancée, Abby Dean, a 2021 Aggies graduate. He said he's the only Longhorn in the family. "When I got selected head Yell Leader, I said, we're going to create a new yell," he said. The result is the Aggies' iconic"Beat The Hell out of t.u." yell , and the hand sign to communicate it to the student body, which is akin to an"up yours" gesture, where you put your arm in your elbow and bend it upwards.
"I was a Texas A&M undergraduate, then I betrayed my family, betrayed A&M and went off to UT to go to law school. So I am a person divided," Eryn Lyle said. Some people were even conflicted, just among themselves. Eryn Lyle wore a sweatshirt she sewed together that was half maroon and half burnt orange.
"I didn't know what Thanksgiving was," Wiley said."It wasn't eating turkey, it was usually eating a pimento cheese sandwich, tailgating when my mother made them." The park was bursting at the seams on Saturday. Aggies linebacker Taurean York said there were"probably 300,000 people here in the vicinity of Kyle Field," adding that it was"the biggest game of a lot of people's lives."everywhere. On Saturday evening, before kickoff, the Texas A&M Police account tweeted that"a man & his dog were riding a longhorn" around campus.
"I'm glad that Texas is in the SEC," Slocum said."All Aggies don't feel like that. Maybe all Texas fans don't feel like that, but to me, this big state to have two SEC teams ... makes sense to me. And it adds, really, to both of our values." So he roasted an entire Longhorn, horns and all. And along came Slocum to fulfill his destiny, sawing the horns off the thing with a miniature chainsaw as a crowd of Aggies cheered.
They played the game, and Horns stayed intact. The Texas defense held the Aggies' offense scoreless, and the Longhorns ran the ball for 240 yards to control the game from start to finish for a 17-7 win, a bitter disappointment to the partisan crowd of 109,028, the third largest ever to watch a game at Kyle Field.
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