Texas and Texas A&M beefed but only once they stopped playing each other

By college football standards, the rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M is exactly what you’d expect. First played in 1894 and scheduled annually starting in 1915, the Longhorns and Aggies feature all the standard tropes: UT is the liberal arts university in the urban state capital – the snobs – and A&M is the agricultural, military and engineering school – the country folk, let’s say.

Both schools boast an official dislike of each other in their respective fight songs. Both schools built annual game-week traditions on campus before playing each other, usually around Thanksgiving at the end of the regular season. Sometimes it was streaky. Texas holds a significant lead, but A&M dominated in the 1980s and early ‘90s.

However, off the field – and in the ledgers – is where the hatred between these two groups becomes one of one, and a rivalry heats up to a Texas side of beef. So, let's dig in.

Written and produced by Steven Godfrey
Directed and edited by Charlotte Atkinson
Additional editing and motion graphics by Philip Pasternak

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