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Texas is trending past rival Texas A&M in football

Losing to a Group of Five team in Jimbo Fisher’s fifth season isn’t what the Aggies had planned.

The Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies are headed in different directions. That could not have been more evident than it was Saturday.

Texas lost by one point to the nation’s top team over the weekend, while the Aggies fell 17-14 to Appalachian State.

Last season, the Aggies sold out to beat Alabama. It’s really the only explanation I have for why they would lose a home game to Mississippi State or narrowly win 10-7 over Colorado. Perhaps starting early preparation for Alabama is why they lost to an above average Sun Belt team last week.

The Aggie offense has been underwhelming both in scheme and execution. It took a Devon Achane kickoff return just for Texas A&M to reach the 14-point mark.

Conversely, in front of a host of talented recruits, Texas put on one of the best performances possible on Saturday.

Many lacked the discernment to understand that Texas’ 5-7 season was part of tearing down a bad culture and system to build it back up. Dave Aranda tore down a good system to build his own in his first season. He ended up going 2-7 that year before winning the conference title.

Now, Texas is already further ahead than Texas A&M ever was in Jimbo’s second season, while Fisher lost to a Sun Belt team in year five. It doesn’t take much discernment to see where both programs are headed.

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Why did Texas A&M’s embarrassing ‘Midnight Yell’ before App State loss appear to vanish from the internet?

I wonder what happened to it.

Texas A&M’s season is on ice after a shocking upset loss against Appalachian State at home on Saturday, but the internet added a bit of insult to injury.

On Monday, a viral clip made the rounds from this week’s “Midnight Yell” in which a Texas A&M student delivered a cringeworthy attempt at a roast of the Mountaineers.

“I was really confused because Appalachia is definitely not a state,” he said, which earned meager applause from the Kyle Field crowd. “But sure enough, I found them, and they’re located deep — and I mean deep — in the backwoods, just like you would think any hillbilly college that names themselves the Mountaineers.

“I just hope these guys can get here tomorrow alright because I know for a fact that half of their football team can barely even read the name on their jerseys, let alone read a map.”

You get the picture.

For the (blessedly) uninitiated, Texas A&M students gather at the stadium the night before games for the Midnight Yell, which is essentially a glorified pep rally that features Yell Leaders giving a pregame hype speech.

They’re rarely much better than this one.

Obviously, this wasn’t the best look following the embarrassing 17-14 loss to an App State team that actually made it to College Station without incident. Interestingly, many who posted the video on Twitter quickly found that the clip, which comes from a YouTube video posted by the school’s official account, had disappeared due to an apparent copyright claim.

Hmm.

It seems something — or a copyright claim — is keeping people from seeing the pep rally. If the above clip gets claimed, as well, I’m sure whoever is responsible wouldn’t mind me telling you that you can still see it by clicking this link and going to the 0:54 second mark.

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