... every time they’ve been able to get one up on Texas, Texas has been so bad that A&M has been the least of our worries.
When I said this, I thought it was an accurate statement but I wanted to be sure so I checked the stats.
Texas and Texas A&M played each other 118 times. Texas won 76 of those games, which is a 66% winning percentage. That's about on par with Texas' winning percentage against SMU, UofH and TCU.
There were two spans in history when A&M was competitive. The rest of the time Texas pretty much dominated the series.
One of those the spans was 1909 to 1939 which <sarcasm> I'm sure is relevant to all of us.</sarcasm> [Since 1940, BTW, Texas has won 49 of 73 games, a 68% winning percentage].
The other time A&M was competitive, and even dominant, was 1984 through 1994 - but like I said in my earlier post, Texas was so dreadful then that A&M was hardly our biggest concern. The Texas teams A&M beat during that time were a combined 60-52-2. It even included 4 Texas teams with losing records which is significant because in 125 years of playing football, Texas has only had 16 losing seasons. That was 25% of them right there. Interestingly, this was also the same span of time when Baylor and UofH racked up most of their all-time wins against Texas as well.
Think back to Charlie Strong's unfortunate tenure at Texas. Three losing seasons. Losses to BYU, Cal, Iowa State and even Kansas. Terrible forgettable years. But what if somebody had no other frame of reference and their entire experience as a Texas fan was based on those three years. They might be tempted to look at the losses to TCU and say, "OMG! I hate TCU! They're the worst! They're our biggest rival!"
That's kind of how the whole A&M as our rival strikes me.