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re: Texas fans- I have a question about rivalries
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:48 am to BigBro
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:48 am to BigBro
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It’s doesn’t matter how good your team is, or what your record is, or what your ranked.. you want to skull frick every single one of them and bury them alive.
I feel that way as an LSU fan towards everyone else. Too bad our defense is the one being skull-fricked.
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Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:43 am to hiremikeleach
Having lives now in Texas for years and being a fan of neither, there is no question in my mind it’s A&M.
OU and UTx dislike each other, UTx and A&M hate each other.
I’d also say that OU and OKST is the true hatred and Same for Mizzou and kansas.
OU and UTx dislike each other, UTx and A&M hate each other.
I’d also say that OU and OKST is the true hatred and Same for Mizzou and kansas.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 9:25 am to BurgTiger
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OU and UTx dislike each other, UTx and A&M hate each other.
I’d also say that OU and OKST is the true hatred and Same for Mizzou and kansas.
I would completely disagree here as far as OU fans in regards OSU. For OU it's Texas. However it is completely true in regards to OSU fans regarding OU.
I'd bet most Texas fans would say the same dynamic exists regarding the Longhorns, Texas A&M, and OU.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 2:42 pm to Gunga Din
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I'd bet most Texas fans would say the same dynamic exists regarding the Longhorns, Texas A&M, and OU.
100%.
The bigger the challenger, the better the rivalry. OSU & A&M are simply in state rivals.. Texas-OU is the real rivalry.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 3:37 pm to BurntOrangeMan
quote:I agree w/ this.
Beating OU is better than beating A&M. Losing to A&M is worse than losing to OU.
OU is the biggest Rival. No question in my mind. Both games were big, important, and very different. The Cotton Bowl setting >> home and home series.
1974 was my, and Earl's, first Texas-OU game. Camping out days before the drawing for student tickets and the mass migration to Dallas, 190 miles from each campus.
Dallas used to close Commerce Street downtown on Friday Night, w/ 1,000's of fans making a big circle, 12-15 blocks long, walking on the barricaded sidewalks with the streets full of police. Though Dallas County was dry, they allowed open containers for this (jails weren't big enough?). No Guns. No weapons. No fatalities. Endless smack talk, inevitable skirmishes, 100's of people arrested every year.
The feeling walking into the Cotton Bowl was unlike anything I have ever experienced. Chills down my back, hair standing up on the back of my neck. Incredibly loud, every play, all game long. Steeped in tradition and athletic pedigree. Physically exhausted after watching the games.
You never ever forget that. Makes you a college football fan for life.
As a student, I saw 18 All-Americans play for OU (Texas had 11), winning the MNC in '74 & '75, w/ Billy Sims winning the Heisman Trophy the year after Earl. OU had earned my respect well before then.
Playing A&M was not like that. Home and Home, 90 miles away. Always a day trip. CS in the 70's was butt ugly, Soviet motif, no trees, the Dixie Chicken and boys, boys, boys & boys. Very few girls, and ... ugh!!! Never considered staying overnight.
OU consumed the entire week; winning meant a huge party in Austin, losing meant a long arse drive back home.
A&M was always a part of a Thanksgiving tradition, or T+1, with family & friends. A big game, yes. But not like OU.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 3:39 pm to hiremikeleach
Since the chicken ranch closed Oklahoma
Posted on 10/4/23 at 4:19 pm to Ptins944
great post.. it’s hard for someone to understand it unless they have been there and experienced it. You see it on TV and it may look great.. but that doesn’t even come close to capturing it.
There is the Texas OU game and then there is everything else.I highly recommend going to this game if you love college football. No piped in music, no DJ, just some old school smash mouth football where half of the stadium erupts every single play.
There is the Texas OU game and then there is everything else.I highly recommend going to this game if you love college football. No piped in music, no DJ, just some old school smash mouth football where half of the stadium erupts every single play.
This post was edited on 10/4/23 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 10/4/23 at 4:19 pm to Ptins944
Even when I lived in NYC, Denver or Chicago I came in for the OU game. I've never stepped foot in College Station much less Kyle Field.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 4:23 pm to BurntOrangeMan
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Kyle Field
not gonna lie.. Kyle Field is a hostile environment.. or at least it used to be. I haven’t been in a while though.. that first game next year is going to be lights out.. but prepare to sell a kidney or two to pay for the tickets.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 4:42 pm to 49 to nada
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Why? We lead the overall series like 63-50. Even if it were the other way round it wouldn't exactly be lopsided. This is the one game where it doesn't matter which team is ranked where or how the season is generally going. Some of the worst Texas teams of the past decade have managed to wear the golden hat.??
You've got a crappy user name…but your logic is sound.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 6:17 pm to PerrillouxToTexas
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Beating OU is better than beating A&M.
Losing to A&M is worse than losing to OU.
Yep.
Also don't forget Texas - Arkansas. It's pretty lopsided (Texas is over .700 against Arky), but it's a major rivalry from back in the SWC days.
Arkansas probably hates Texas more than we hate them, but it's an intense game - especially in Fayetteville.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 6:33 pm to TheRealTigerHorn
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I honestly think the ATM undergrad experience is better all around. UT is the better grad school.
Not sure if you're intentionally specifying undergrad "experience" or if you mean undergrad in general, but TAMU is nowhere near UT academically at either level. Not even close.
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