Tag: Lone Star Rivalry

Texas A&M recruit calls Longhorns fans ‘obsessed’ with the Aggies

Current Texas A&M commit Victory Vaka took to Twitter to call out the Texas Longhorns fanbase. Saying they are ‘obsessed’ with A&M.

In the state of Texas there is a lot of pride for each school. Two of those schools absolutely cannot stand each other. The Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies are the main two of reference. They started playing each other back in 1894 and continued up until 2011. The Lone Star rivalry ended when the Aggies left for the SEC, however the rivalry never ended for the fanbases.

They still compete in other sports such as baseball and basketball, but when it comes to the money making sport of college football they haven’t come together to play. Some of that being how the Longhorns dominated the rivalry and perhaps the Aggies don’t want to stack more losses. Or perhaps since they are now in the SEC, neither side wants to lose that game for recruiting purposes.

Former Longhorn Eric Metcalf joined the Locked on Longhorns podcast to discuss the return to the rivalry in which he stated that very thing. If you lose that game you could lose an edge in recruiting in the Lone Star state. Neither school wants that. Current Aggie commit Victory Vaka of California tweeted out that Texas fans care more about the Aggies than their very own Longhorns.

While it is true that Texas fans do like to talk about A&M, it is more so for mocking that team. Aggie fans do the same with Texas, like was previous stated this is still a rivalry and they will continue to do so on social media.

For the Aggies, those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

New realignment idea to give Southwest Conference a rebirth

SI’s Pat Forde has generated an idea that would give the NCAA FBS a facelift. It would bring the Southwest Conference back with a twist.

Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde has a crazy idea under the current climate, NCAA realignment. With COVID-19 possibly factoring in to limit travel, this idea from Forde would limit travel for the conference games. Each conference would have 12 members and it would do away with the independents such as BYU and the like.

Ten leagues, each with 12 members, each designed to maximize proximity and reduce travel demands and costs. All current conference structures are broken and reassembled. There are no more than eight Power 5 programs in a single new conference, and no fewer than four. And there are no independents—yes, Notre Dame is in a conference.

Forde also mentioned how it would change the College Football Playoff comment.

All 10 conference champions, plus two at-large teams chosen by a selection committee, advance to the expanded College Football Playoff. The teams are seeded by the committee. The top four receive a first-round bye, while seeds 5–8 host seeds 9–12 at their home stadiums the first weekend of December. Quarterfinals are played the next week at the home stadiums of seeds 1–4. The semifinals and championship game are conducted under the current CFP format.

Essentially every team would play each other with one non-conference game each season and no conference championship game. For schools like Texas, the idea would to give the Southwest Conference a rebirth. It would bring back former conference rivalries such as Houston, Rice, SMU while maintaining the Texas-Oklahoma Red River Rivalry. The Sooners and Cowboys were actually part of the Big Eight before the creation of the Big 12 but would join the new SWC.

The new Southwest Conference:

  • Baylor
  • Houston
  • North Texas
  • Oklahoma
  • Oklahoma State
  • Rice
  • Southern Methodist
  • Texas Christian
  • Texas
  • Texas A&M
  • Texas Tech
  • Tulsa

This new conference alignment may not sit well with some of the brass at Texas A&M but it would bring back the Longhorns-Aggies rivalry game. That would be good for the state and college football. After all what makes the sport so great are the rivalry games.