Circle the date: Texas A&M and Texas to renew rivalry on Nov. 30, 2024
4,755 days.
That will be how long the Aggies have waited for a reunion with their archrival.
The date of Texas A&M’s reuniting with Texas is now known.
The entirety of A&M’s 2024 slate has yet to be leaked, reported or announced.
Two summers ago, A&M’s Director of Athletics Ross Bjork stated the rivalry’s return would be in College Station.
“I can’t imagine the atmosphere when that game is played,” Bjork said at the 2022 SEC Spring Meetings. “And it will be played at Kyle Field.”
On June 14, 2023, the Southeastern Conference released the 2024 opponents, and just as Bjork had ensured, Texas was slated to come to Aggieland.
A kickoff time has yet to be announced. That likely does not matter.
Aggies and Longhorns will undoubtedly circle that date on their respective calendars.
Since Justin Tucker’s last-second field goal sailed through the south uprights on Nov. 24, 2011, Longhorns have been spouting bragging rights.
Conversely, countless Aggies have longed for payback.
Of course, the rivalry ceased with A&M’s move to the SEC. Then-Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds infamously expressed the unwillingness to play it as a non-conference game.
“They left,” Dodds told The Daily Texan in March 2013. “They’re the ones that decided not to play us. We get to decide when we play again. I think that’s fair.
With Texas officially joining the SEC this summer, those Aggies will get their chance.
While the much-anticipated meeting will not be a traditional Thanksgiving affair, the traditional hatred will absolutely return.
The two have met 116 times already. Texas hosts a 76-37-5 edge in the rivalry.
Much of that Orange dominance came while A&M was an all-male military school that didn’t prioritize athletics.
Since Jackie Sherrill’s 1982 arrival in College Station, the series is even at 15-15.
During those final 30 matchups, the rivalry became critical to winning Southwest Conference crowns and a marquee matchup in the Big 12.
Now, it comes to the best college football conference in America.
The storylines and stakes will be immense.
Under Steve Sarkisian, Texas is currently vying for one final Big 12 championship and a College Football Playoff berth.
A&M just hired Mike Elko in hopes he can bring the Maroon & White to prominence.
Part of that quest for glory certainly includes beating the hell outta t.u.
In 369 days, the Aggies will get that chance.
It will have been 4,755 days of waiting.
Sefton said:
Refs are excited. More sip payoffs coming their way.
That 2 varsity letterman sip ambulance chaser from El Paso better not ever be the review official in any sec games.
Gig the hell out of 'em.
stexagg said:
My choice would have been LSU on that weekend. This is rivalry weekend. They should be playing OU.
I think they try to keep that one with Tx State Fair.
I don't like it, but I think that's why.
If we're the TX school, maybe we should play em then.
They could play Boomer w Tgiving, we'd play LSU
Bull***** They're just another team now.Charlie 31 said:
This is good news. The sips should be our annual rival during Rivalry Week.
And Sankey can choke on a bag of dicks for letting them in. This conference will implode in 15~20 years.
Or sooner, sip matches into the SEC and gats every damn thing they want. It's like nothing has changed after 12 years. After a couple of years they'll start trying to take over the SEC meeting.Slicer97 said:Bull***** They're just another team now.Charlie 31 said:
This is good news. The sips should be our annual rival during Rivalry Week.
And Sankey can choke on a bag of dicks for letting them in. This conference will implode in 15~20 years.
I didn't want tu coming to the SEC, but I'm thrilled that we'll be playing them again. It's a great college football rivalry. State bragging rights!
Hoss said:
I hope all of you saying you never want to play them again have been singing the first verse of the War Hymn instead of the second. It seemed silly to me that we were still singing about the Longhorns after we went to the SEC and stopped playing them.
I didn't want tu coming to the SEC, but I'm thrilled that we'll be playing them again. It's a great college football rivalry. State bragging rights!
Seems a lot of folks are thrilled with the restoration of 'the privilege' to play 'sip.
They've been t-sips to me since Fish Camp. Don't see any reason to change that.Reno Hightower said:Hoss said:
I hope all of you saying you never want to play them again have been singing the first verse of the War Hymn instead of the second. It seemed silly to me that we were still singing about the Longhorns after we went to the SEC and stopped playing them.
I didn't want tu coming to the SEC, but I'm thrilled that we'll be playing them again. It's a great college football rivalry. State bragging rights!
Seems a lot of folks are thrilled with the restoration of 'the privilege' to play 'sip.
All BS. You'll be in the stands or watching like all of us who look forward to playing them again. BTHOtu!
yeah, I hate them too, so let's beat the piss out of them
Exactly.barbacoa taco said:
yeah, I hate them too, so let's beat the piss out of them
Duckhook said:
Based on all of the previous posts on this subject over the last 12 years, Kyle Field will be only half full on 11/30/24. "I don't know anybody who wants to play them again!" "I'll never watch or go to this game!" "I've got better things to do than watch the refs hose us again!" "Never, never, never!"
All BS. You'll be in the stands or watching like all of us who look forward to playing them again. BTHOtu!
DGrimesAg92 said:
**** texas....the reason I was ecstatic about moving to the SEC was the thought of never having to play those whining little *****es ever again.
This. I'd rather eat dirt.