For me the best thing about Texas joining the SEC, was being reunited with old rivals Arkansas and Texas A&M, while also maintaining the OU rivalry. I'm old-school and I value rivalries above pretty much everything else in college football. Winning the conference is great but difficult, winning the national championship is great but REALLY difficult, and both tend to rely on outside forces aligning to enable the event to happen.
But rivalries... that's where your team gets to measure itself directly against those other guys, the ones we just can't stand, and see how things stack up. A year's worth of bragging rights are table stakes. Recruiting battles are often involved. And sometimes, sometimes even a berth in the conference championship game is on the line.
The stakes are high this week. First meeting in over a decade, tons of recruiting battles involved, the fans are frothing-at-the-mouth excited, and the meeting is a winner-take-all for the second spot in the SEC CCG. I wish it were on Thanksgiving night as it should be, but we'll just have to make do and be thankful for what we've got. And what that is, is the biggest Texas-Texas A&M game in at least a half-century.
It'll be a war, it'll be a heartbreaker, and it'll be a lot of fun.
Howdy Ags, glad to see you again.
