texas a&m

by kmacsm on Oct 9, 2007 9:24 AM CDT Comment 3 comments

As the university of texas has become one of the top college football programs in the last decade. wins against the mighty longhorns are still few and far between.

but

wins agianst the aggies are still very real, and happen very often.

in the last twelve years, texas tech is 9-3 against A&M. thats really awesome...

and as really really lame as aggie fans are there is nothing i enjoy more than an a&m defeat at the hands of the red raiders.

SO YEAHHH... ITS A&M WEEK

Poll

bigger game

texas

2 votes

texas a&m

11 votes

baylor

2 votes

ou

5 votes

20 votes | Poll has closed

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Don't know

whether the question is asked generally, as in on any given year, or specific to this year. I think in either event, I can justify my choice of Texas.

I'm starting to take for granted that we'll beat A&M, especially at home, given the recent history on this game. When they are a "better team" per the talking heads, we beat them on the road. I think we're a better team this year, and will handle them at home, a suspicion shared by Las Vegas among others.

Texas is still a much more high profile team that the rest of the nation watches more closely, it's the team we have to prove ourselves against, it's the team we have to leap frog in order to increase our annual standing in the Big 12 south (we've already kind of sort of done that to A&M) and it's really the team by which which other Texas programs are measured. OU is obviously an important game, but I care more about in state rivalries because I'm a born and raised Texan, and because I feel we have a better shot at improving our relative Texas recruiting deficit than our relative Oklahoma recruiting deficit. In state wins are important to that end.

by Red Blooded on Oct 9, 2007 2:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree

Texas is our biggest opponent. Every year, I just hope that maybe, just maybe we can hang with Texas and hope to pull the upset. I don't think it has happened since 2002. Until we prove that we can play with Texas and OU and actually beat them, we will continually bring in the majority of the 3 star recruits (rather than mostly 4 & 5 stars like UT and OU get). Don't get me wrong, I love the players that we have! I think that some of our under-rated players are better than some of the better recruits that go other places.

If you notice the recruiting trends in the past few years, Texas has already picked up 20 or so of the top players in the state of Texas within a month of the last signing class period. Tech needs to get in there and steal some of these away by BEATING TEXAS!

liquidsmoke

by liquidsmoke on Oct 9, 2007 5:31 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Most years.....

I would agree that Texas is our biggest game. But this year with Texas playing so inconsistently, with all their off-field problems and injuries, and with the Red Raiders playing with a fair balance of defense since the OSU game.....I think OU is our biggest game.

I only say this because I think we'd have a lot more problems with OU than we will have with Texas. They struggled with Arkansas St. at home. Barely beat Central Florida. Hell, we beat ourselves last year when we played them in Lubbock. Their secondary is cavernous. So I can see a victory (even in Austin) a lot easier than I can see a victory against OU (in Lubbock).

And with that thought in mind, considering we can win 4 of the last 5 going into the OU game, and considering OU wins out....that game could very well be for the Big XII south title. So I would say this year, as opposed to any other, the OU game is the biggest game of the year.

Hit'em Wreck'em!

by Naik2001 on Oct 16, 2007 4:18 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs