historically ou/tx has been bigger due to their prominence, especially since mack brown got to tx. comparing the ou/tx and a&m/tx rivalry is much like bama/auburn and bama/lsu. it really depends on the year. this year will definitely be a&m/tx simply because everything that has happened

then again, up until the Big 12, the A&M/tx rivalry has had more meaning as far as being in the same conference.

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Posted by LarrySellers

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Posted on 9/30/11 at 3:41 pm to Aggie2000

we actually really dont consider LSU a "rival". they just happen to be in our division and we both have good programs at the moment... oh yeah and they hate us for hiring their old coach

but our rivals in historic context, are Tennessee, then Auburn. Auburn is the instate and so that one has the most smack talk year round, but historically the Bama Tennessee game was more important, with Bear Bryant and General Neyland building the 2 most winning programs in the SEC. If you didn't win the 3rd Saturday in October then you could kiss your chance at winning the SEC goodbye. Bear Bryant always considered Tennessee to be our biggest rival

AU has become a much better program in the last 25 years, so now that rivalry is a bigger deal than it was back in the day, to the point of spiraling out of control

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