Texas Football: Jimbo Fisher wrong about A&M ‘worrying’ about the Horns

The SEC spring meetings took place late this month, and have brought up some interesting headlines concerning two of the new teams entering the conference next year. Texas football and the Oklahoma Sooners were in attendance in the last week or so for the SEC spring meetings, although neither school got a vote for any of the matters on the docket in the conference.

One of the hot topics on the docket for discussion at the SEC spring meetings is the scheduling once the conference officially adds the Longhorns and Sooners to the mix starting in 2024. It looks as if the SEC is trying to decide between an eight or a nine-game conference schedule over the long term.

And one of the determining factors to figure out the future scheduling for the SEC will be whether the conference ultimately decides to have one or multiple permanent rivalries on the docket for each team.

This topic is obviously something that will heavily impact the Longhorns. Texas fans will clearly want both Oklahoma and the Texas A&M Aggies on the football schedule annually.

Jimbo Fisher wrong about how much Texas A&M fans are concerned with Texas football

But it doesn’t sound like the Longhorns would pick the Aggies over the Sooners if it had the choice for one annual rival. That would probably mean that the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry would only happen every other year.

Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher spoke on this topic regarding who the Aggies would want as their annual rival if the SEC decides to only have one locked in.

He mentioned that Texas A&M is “not going to live out life worrying about Texas” and that they’ll “worry about A&M”.

Considering how much Texas A&M fans seem to concern themselves with Texas, I would disagree with Fisher’s statement that they don’t worry about what the Longhorns do at all. Texas A&M fans and administration are constantly worrying about what the Longhorns are doing, especially with them joining the SEC.

Texas A&M administration concerning themselves with Texas’ whereabouts spans throughout the last decade or so since the Aggies left the Big 12 for the SEC in 2012 (i.e. the chancellor jabbing at the Longhorns back in 2015).

And if the Aggies weren’t concerned with how the SEC scheduling could pan out, why did Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork declare in 2022 that he wants to host Texas in the first meeting between these two teams as SEC foes?

Now, I will say that Fisher is probably correct that he isn’t concerned about the Longhorns at the moment. He has more important things to worry about after Texas A&M disappointed last season with a 5-7 record after being ranked in the top 10 in the preseason polls.

Fisher should be more worried about righting the ship at A&M this year than he is about the future scheduling with Texas. On the other hand, Texas A&M fans and administration still seem to have plenty of time on their hands to worry about the Longhorns as the time approaches for Texas and OU to join the SEC in 2024.

Texas and Texas A&M haven’t met on the gridiron since 2011 when the two teams last faced each other as Big 12 foes. But it won’t be long until the Longhorns and Aggies to get settle their differences on the gridiron again as conference foes in the next couple of years.