University of Texas student body held vote about bringing back A&M rivalry, 97% voted yes

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The University of Texas at Austin Student Government sent out an email to the student body Tuesday morning asking for students to weigh-in on whether they’d like to see an annual rival football game between Texas and Texas A&M reinstated.

Students can share their thoughts through the survey in a university-wide referendum Wednesday. In all, 96.71 percent of 7,509 votes said “yes” to bringing back the rivalry game.

Student body Vice President Micky Wolf said this idea has been in the works for around seven months. Student leaders have met with both university administration and the athletics department who’ve told SGA that rebooting the game would be a possibility. In fact, some of the questions on the survey came directly from questions university leaders told student government they had for the student body.

“If we really bring people together and show people this is uniting of Aggie and Longhorn students, I think it will go a long way toward making the decision makers kind of finalize it and make the decision,” Wolf said.

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