AggieArchitect2004

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Why would we want to play Texas Tech in anything?

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If you mean people worldwide who have died since Texas A&M won the 1939 national championship, the answer is roughly 4.5 billion people.

Texas A&M’s last football national championship was in 1939, so we’re talking about nearly 87 years of human mortality. The UN maintains historical mortality estimates, though comprehensive global data becomes less certain before 1950.

A reasonable back-of-the-envelope calculation looks like this:

* 1939–1950: ~500 million deaths
* 1950–1970: ~900 million
* 1970–1990: ~950 million
* 1990–2010: ~1.0 billion
* 2010–2020: ~600 million
* 2020–2025: ~320 million
* 2026 to August: ~40 million

Total: approximately 4.3–4.5 billion deaths

For perspective, the world has about 8.3 billion people alive today. Global deaths are currently around 63 million per year (with 2025 estimated at 63.1 million), or roughly 173,000 people every day.

So, in the most Aggie-friendly formulation:

Since Texas A&M last won a national championship, approximately 4.4 BILLION people have died.

And not one of them has gotten to see another Aggie football national championship.

That’s a lot of funerals waiting on that next trophy. ??

Small technicality: Texas A&M did win an NCAA national championship in women’s volleyball in 2025, so if we’re talking strictly about any NCAA national championship, the 1939 drought ended in 2025. The football drought, however, remains gloriously intact

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