Texas Football: 3 programs that can’t handle Longhorns success
1. Texas A&M Aggies
Player their fan base hates most: Vince Young
Player Longhorns fans hate most: Johnny Manziel
There’s really only one rival of the Longhorns with one player that was seemingly over-confident on the gridiron that could make fans on the Forty Acres not like him without these two teams even facing each other anymore. And that player is the former Heisman Trophy winner and the Texas A&M Aggies quarterback Johnny Manziel.
During the years in which Manziel was starring for the Texas A&M offense, Mack was trying to get the best years out of the Longhorns at the end of his coaching run on the Forty Acres. Texas A&M combined for a record of 20-6 during the Manziel years, which are their best of the last two decades, while the Longhorns were starting to decline with a record of 17-9.
But Texas also had a lot of success before the Aggies split from the Big 12 to the SEC West back in 2012. Texas won three of the final four Lone Star Showdowns on the gridiron prior to Texas A&M bolting for the SEC. VY especially dominated the Aggies, holding a 3-0 record from 2003-2005, including the National Championship year.
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Texas holds an all-time series record of 76-37-5 against the Aggies. There is no more of a little brother complex among all of the biggest Longhorns football rivals when this program is up than the Aggies fan base. While Texas A&M has some tradition and success in its program’s history, it doesn’t have as much as Texas.