re: An education on Texas A&M's history and traditions please

The following SEC schools were at one time an "A&M":

Arky
Auburn
Kentucky (didn't know this)
Florida (sort of)
LSU
TAMU
MSU

The only schools in the SEC that never had/have had a land grant under a Morrill Act:
Alabama
Vandy
Ole Miss
USC


Land Grant Universities

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The second major precursor to the University of Florida was the Florida Agricultural College, established at Lake City by Jordan Probst in 1884. Florida Agricultural College became the state's first land-grant college under the Morrill Act. In 1903, the Florida Legislature, desiring to expand the school's outlook and curriculum beyond its agricultural and engineering origins, changed the name of Florida Agricultural College to the "University of Florida," a name that the school would hold for only two years.[22]
"University of the State of Florida"[edit]
In 1905, the Florida Legislature passed the Buckman Act, which consolidated the existing publicly supported higher education institutions of the state.

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John Bryan Bowman founded the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky (A&M), a publicly chartered department of Kentucky University, after receiving federal support through the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act in 1865.[7] Courses were offered at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate.[11] Three years later, James Kennedy Patterson became the first president of the land-grant university and the first degree was awarded. In 1876, the university began to offer Master's degree programs. Two years later, A&M separated from Kentucky University, which is now Transylvania University.[11] For the new school, Lexington donated a 52 acre (210,000 m²) park and fair ground, which became the core of UK's present campus.[11] A&M was initially a male-only institution, but began to admit women in 1880. ...the school's name was changed to the "State University, Lexington, Kentucky" upon reaching university status, and then to the "University of Kentucky" in 1916

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Other notables:
Mich State (the original A&M)
Colorado State
UConn (Connecticut Agricultural College)
ISU (Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts)
NCSU (North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts)
Ohio State
Okla State
Oregon State (Oregon Agricultural College)
PSU (Agricultural College of Pennsylvania)
WVU (Agricultural College of West Virginia)

Clemson was never South Carolina Agricultural. It was Clemson Agricultural College.