Initial Texas football vs. Texas A&M SEC game to be at Kyle Field
Although we still don’t have a date set yet for when the first game will be played that rejuvenates the currently-dormant Lone Star Showdown between Texas football and the Texas A&M Aggies, there was some relevant news that surfaced on this rivalry this week. During the SEC spring meetings, Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork mentioned something about the location of where the first Lone Star Showdown will be played between these two teams as conference foes.
An interview published by the Houston Chronicle with Bjork (posted on June 2) noted that the first Texas-Texas A&M game on the gridiron in more than a decade is set to take place at Kyle Field in College Station, TX.
That is interesting since the last meeting in the Lone Star Showdown between Texas and Texas A&M took place in College Station back in 2011. The 2011 meeting between Texas and Texas A&M resulted in a narrow 27-25 win for the Longhorns.
Initial Texas football vs. Texas A&M game in the SEC will reportedly be played in College Station
Houston Chronicle exclusive:
— Brent Zwerneman (@BrentZwerneman) June 2, 2022
Texas A&M AD: First game with Texas will be at Kyle Field https://t.co/BBuenBMCa6 via @houstonchron
The last time that the Longhorns and Aggies faced each other in Austin on the gridiron came back in 2010, which was also the last win for Texas A&M in the Lone Star Showdown.
The next meeting between the Longhorns and Aggies would be the first for the two current head coaches of each program in the Lone Star Showdown. But Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian and Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher faced each other twice as coaches before.
When Sark was the offensive coordinator under head coach Nick Saban with the Alabama Crimson Tide in 2019 and 2020, he faced Fisher and the Aggies on an annual basis. Alabama got the best of Texas A&M on both occasions in 2019 and 2020 by double-digit margins.
Fisher has also noted at the SEC spring meetings this week that he “would love to play Texas” on an annual basis.
It seems like Fisher and Bjork are talking about the rejuvenation of the Lone Star Showdown with more excitement now that the reality is dawning on them with the impending move of Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for the SEC by 2025.
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The Lone Star Showdown is definitely one of the biggest dormant rivalries in college football at the moment. But it won’t be long before the Longhorns and Aggies are facing each other, maybe even on an annual basis, as SEC foes.