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The Texas–Texas A&M Games That Got Away

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DATE POSTED:November 27, 2024
Johnny Manziel, Sam Ehlinger, and Jumbo Fisher photo illustrationEveryone knows that the annual meeting of the Aggies and the Longhorns went on hiatus after 2011. But we’d like to presuppose this: What if it didn’t? Peering through the multiverse like Marvel’s Doctor Strange, we’ve found a timeline in which, while the Aggies still joined the SEC in 2012, a state law in the 2011 legislative session mandated that Texas and Texas A&M keep their football rivalry alive by playing a head-to-head grudge match every season, no matter how impractical their annual meetings become. Here are some of the rivalry’s memorable installments from the alternate universe where the Longhorns and Aggies never stopped playing each other. 2012: Texas A&M 70–Texas 17Aggie fans can still close their eyes and see freshman phenom Johnny Manziel slip out…

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