re: LMAO. Greg McElroy with that mic drop in interview with Billy Liucci...

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Soon kid, soon

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frick auburn

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and LSU

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and Tennessee too

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Same here. In my life time Texas has a losing record to A&M.

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Cool. What year were you born? Would you trade the head to head record in your lifetime for the over all accomplishments?

Texas has a clear advantage as a program during my lifetime because of the Mack Brown era at Texas where pretty much all of their superlatives are. From 2001-2009 there was no question which program was better. There was no question which school the better players would choose.

However that has NOT existed uniformly throughout my lifetime once you get outside of that decade long bubble. To say that the superiority is universal outside of that period is simply not true.

When I was very young, A&M was a better a program. A&M for periods has been able to out recruit Texas or recruit against them on roughly equivalent terms. The same is true in the last decade or so also.

In my lifetime, Texas is 350-173-4 while A&M is 336-186-3 (From 2001-2009, Texas was 101-16 while A&M was 56-54, just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about)

Texas won a national championship, played for another. There's really nothing that can be said about that. The results are what they are.

Like Texas A&M, Texas has yet to have any impact at all in the most modern era of college football (the playoff era), and in fact A&M has been closer to making the playoffs than Texas has, although that could change by the end of this season.

In the first era of television exposure and media decentralization of college football prior to the creation of the BCS in the mid-80s to mid-90s, Texas A&M as a program was pretty clearly superior to Texas.

Texas has had 10 losing seasons in my lifetime, while A&M has only had 6 of them, and on and on. There may be some states where college football is a #1 and #2 dichotomy, but that hasn't existed in Texas for a long time, and maybe not ever. I suspect the reason is that Texas and A&M have tended to have a larger pool of competition in the state. The rise and fall of programs like Houston, SMU, Tech, Baylor, and TCU will tend to shock the system more and lead to these periods where either Texas or A&M is further down the totem pole in the state than even #2 at a particular time, leaving the other one as a more clear top dog for significant periods.

I concur with Greg.

Did he somehow forget the SWC and early big 12 days?

yeah, the last 10 years we've both been middling programs in our respective conferences, accomplishing nothing of note. TAMU wins!

And who didn't know this to be true?

Ray Perkins- "It's not that Auburn wants to be Alabama, It's that Auburn thinks they are Alabama."
Ray Perkins was a horrible coach and tried to change too many things during his tenure but the ONE thing I will always love Ray for was that he absolutely LOATHED Auburn and despised their mere existence more than any coach Bama may have ever had outside of Bryant.

Greg McElroy has an interpretation of Texas and A&M that is colored by his perception of two things....

#1 is how things are in Alabama based on how he views the Auburn/Alabama rivalry, and #2 the way things specifically were in 2004-2006 when he graduated high school and was recruited.

But that entire conception that Division 1 (or 1-A or FBS or whatever) in Texas is in any way similar to how it is in the state of Alabama is idiotic, nor is it true that for whatever reason 2005 is the definitive microcosm of how it always is Texas.

Saying that Texas A&M is and always will be #2 in Texas is as dumb as trying to apply that #1 vs #2 logic to many other states where it doesn't work that way like Florida or California or even places where you think it would be so simple, like Virginia or Indiana.