Texas A&M / LSU new Thanksgiving rivals

[DesignatedT]

at those who said it wouldn't happen
LSU doesn't consider A&M a rival
blake

Texas A&M Gets Its First Real SEC Rivalry With LSU On Thanksgiving Week
by Steven Godfrey

The Baton Rogue Advocate is reporting that, after a few interim seasons, Texas A&M and LSU will meet as Thanksgiving rivals starting as early as 2014. The move will create a regular season finale rivalry that suits the interests of both the Tigers and Aggies, as well as former LSU Thanksgiving opponent Arkansas, who will now start an annual "border war" (our words, not theirs, so calm yourself, Kansas fans) with newcomer Missouri.

This is the rarest case of conference realignment actually helping to clear up a scheduling problem. When A&M announced they were leaving the Big 12, the lost rivalry with Texas on Thanksgiving night was considered a terrible "blow to Texas tradition" (pearl-clutching, drawled-out emphasis ours). While LSU isn't UT, there's a long history between both schools, and LSU fans have never been fond of Arkansas as a season-ending "rival," a forced pairing that occurred during the 1992 expansion.

http://houston.sbnation.com/texas-a-...n-thanksgiving

[djohn2oo8]

lol trying to feel important.

[ThePop]

[djohn2oo8]

[Blake]

This would be a great game for the Longhorn Network

[Thompson]

LSU fans are apparently looking forward to it. I'm not sure if I'd prefer the game to be on Thanksgiving or on the following day. I'd rather not spend Thanksgiving day in Louisiana every other year. Should be a good game though.

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews....m-footbal.html

[benefactor]

[Darth_Hornet]

I'm an LSU grad and some friends and I will be taking the road trip to College Station this year for the game. Should be a good time.

[DesignatedT]

Thanksgiving in New Orleans

[ThePop]

I'm an LSU grad and some friends and I will be taking the road trip to College Station this year for the game. Should be a good time.

Will Muschamp
"You ever been to College Station?" Muschamp asked the crowd. "It'll be the only time you go."

[Vito Corleone]

Dear aggsy,

Just because you are invited to a birthday party does not mean it is your birthday.

Translation

Just because you play on Thanksgiving does not mean more people care about you, fact is people tuned in to watch Texas play, not aggsy, you playing LSU will equate to Texas aggsy watching and LSU/SEC fans tuning in. You get no present for playing on Turkey day except now you get a beat down from someone new.

[DesignatedT]

More people will be watching A&M/LSU than UT/TCU

You get no present for playing on Turkey day except now you get a beat down from someone new.

A&M was 3-31 against Texas from 1940-1974

A&M was 19-18 on Turkey day since that time.

[hemann82]

so A&M overall is 22-49

[DesignatedT]

It's actually worse. 37-76-5 due to many different circumstances (all male military academy until the 70s, football team gutted during wwii, etc. ) that made the record very lopsided. Since both have been on an even playing field and the scholarship rule has come into effect the record is very even between the two schools.

[benefactor]

lol rivalry

Not really a rivalry when you get your ass handed to you every single year...which is exactly what will happen. I'm sure LSU was more than happy to sign up for the guaranteed win and if I was a fan of the team I'd be pumped too. Who doesn't want to win while hanging out with the family on Thanksgiving?

It's like good high school teams that purposely schedule a bad team for homecoming.

[Vito Corleone]

More people will be watching A&M/LSU than UT/TCU




A&M was 3-31 against Texas from 1940-1974

A&M was 19-18 on Turkey day since that time.

What is your record since joining the Big 12? I could care less what you did when you were passing out Fed-ex envelopes full of money, nor do I care what happened when you could fold up your helmet and put it in your back pocket.

Since the Big 12 was formed aggsy has been dead dog spit and they know it. Since 1996 you have beaten Texas about 4 times in 18 tries.

Here is what I will really miss from our time with aggsy

Aggsy comes up with a classless name for a Texas player, and that player destroys them every year. Some of the more memorable names

Chrissy Simms - was 3-1 vs aggsy
C-Bong Benson - 4-0 vs Aggsy
Radio - 4-0 vs Aggsy
Cart McCoy - was 2-2 vs aggsy
little cart - was 1-0 vs aggsy, a stinger because he is the reason you lost
Butter Tooth, Roscoe P Coltrain and a few other for Mack Brown = Best part is Mack has had more Success at Texas than Aggsy have ever had in their lifetime.

Good bye aggsy, it's been swell beating you, but now we must pass you on to the SEC as they are looking to sodomize you

[Sisk]

I get aggy... but aggsy? That's retarded. Explain.

[Blake]

More people will be watching A&M/LSU than UT/TCU




A&M was 3-31 against Texas from 1940-1974

A&M was 19-18 on Turkey day since that time.

what year did A&M win their national championship?

[DirkDoesWork]

Congratulations, I guess. Maybe you should find an SEC board to circle jerk with them about the news.

[Sisk]

Congratulations, I guess. Maybe you should find an SEC board to circle jerk with them about the news.

This is a College Sports board. The SEC is a part of Collegiate athletics. The best part.

[ChumpDumper]

What date is the A&M / LSU women's equestrian meet?

[Sisk]

What date is the A&M / LSU women's equestrian meet?

Aren't set to compete against them next year as they're not an official team at LSU, only a club.

Here's the full schedule:

http://www.aggieathletics.com/SportS...6&SPSID=635357

[DesignatedT]

Bo Mattingly
‏@SportsTalkwBo
Jackie Sherrill: It's already been decided that LSU and Texas A&M are going to play in primetime on Thanksgiving night in the future.

@AaronDickens @SportsTalkwBo natural, not manufactured - A&M v LSU are bordering state flagship schools & played 50x, 12x before Tech existed

[Vito Corleone]

aggsy is as much flagship as Texas State is.

[Blake]

lol aggy intent on convincing themselves that they have a rivalry with LSU

[benefactor]

lol annual Thanksgiving ass poundings = rivalry

[The Reckoning]

flagship?

[hemann82]

hate to break it to you reckoning, but A&M-CS and UT-Austin are Texas' two flagship schools

[DMX7]

flagship?

A&M-CS is the flagship of the A&M system like UT-Austin is the flagship of the UT system and Texas State-SM is the flagship of its system (which includes Lamar and Sam Houston)

Most people refer to flagship schools as the main school of a particular school system.

[Vito Corleone]

a$m is the flagship of aggsy jokes, and that's about it