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We had something similar happen in about 2004 vs OU.  Our best receiver/PR muffed the punt near the end of the game with A&M leading, OU recovered on like the 5 yard line or something.  Trying to remember our PR guys name, it was a terrible mistake that pretty much cost us the game.  It was later found out when he barely got into the NFL he had some kind of major injury or suffered one early or something and never played pro ball.  Terrance Murphy, I just remembered.  He's supposedly a big shot business man in BCS area now. 

I was at the 2004 game in College Station between A&M and OU.  I don't remember the muffed punt, but I remember some other details, some apparently incorrectly.  I thought I remembered A&M taking a 28-14 lead into the half, but I looked it up and it was 28-21.  And the final score was closer than I remembered.....I thought OU kinda shut down A&M in the second half and ran away with it, but A&M did score a TD in the 4th and it was a one score game.  But the 14-0 3rd quarter in favor of OU makes my memory think second-half blowout, similar to what A&M just did to LSU, although OU only took a 7 pt lead into the 4th, according to the webz.  I also remember a great desire from the fans there for revenge and redemption, because, iirc, the year earlier was when OU had mercilessly beaten A&M 77-0, which is still the worst thing I've ever seen on television, ever.  

I believe (didn't look this up) Reggie McNeal was the Aggie QB at that time.  I know for sure Adrian Peterson was with OU that day, and I was highly impressed by him in person.  

My one and only foray into the Aggie sanctuary, to this day.  My cousin was a student at the time and I met him there, though I don't think we were sitting the student section.  We had really good seats tho, and I was there.  In a green shirt.  Literally the only person in the entire section, perhaps stadium, not wearing maroon.  I've wondered, since that game was probably on tv, if the camera ever caught the oddity.....I should've stuck out like a sore thumb.  I later would spend more than a year working in College Station, but I never went back to a game.  

A girl I was after at the time was in the cool-kids suite because she was also being pursued by the Chancellor's son.....this schmuck, who had just put this book out.....so she had the luxury-box experience that day.  He was older than me, had a way better lifestyle (dunno if he made lots of money or his family just had it, or both) and drove a way nicer car than me.  Fortunately, he had the personality of a platypus (my opinion, no one else's) and I got her anyway.  She was a Longhorn fan anyway, from Austin, where I knew her from, so there was really no sense in her getting tangled up with an Aggie like that.  Made way more sense to get tangled up with a poor, but way cooler, tiger like myself. 

Anyway, it was a good time with a great atmosphere, I reckon.  Just never could figure out why the fan chants kept sawing the Horns off.....of Oklahoma?   

It's a pity, as I said before, that making the CG can have a pretty dark downside.

I was at the 2004 game in College Station between A&M and OU.  I don't remember the muffed punt, but I remember some other details, some apparently incorrectly.  I thought I remembered A&M taking a 28-14 lead into the half, but I looked it up and it was 28-21.  And the final score was closer than I remembered.....I thought OU kinda shut down A&M in the second half and ran away with it, but A&M did score a TD in the 4th and it was a one score game.  But the 14-0 3rd quarter in favor of OU makes my memory think second-half blowout, similar to what A&M just did to LSU, although OU only took a 7 pt lead into the 4th, according to the webz.  I also remember a great desire from the fans there for revenge and redemption, because, iirc, the year earlier was when OU had mercilessly beaten A&M 77-0, which is still the worst thing I've ever seen on television, ever. 

I believe (didn't look this up) Reggie McNeal was the Aggie QB at that time.  I know for sure Adrian Peterson was with OU that day, and I was highly impressed by him in person. 

My one and only foray into the Aggie sanctuary, to this day.  My cousin was a student at the time and I met him there, though I don't think we were sitting the student section.  We had really good seats tho, and I was there.  In a green shirt.  Literally the only person in the entire section, perhaps stadium, not wearing maroon.  I've wondered, since that game was probably on tv, if the camera ever caught the oddity.....I should've stuck out like a sore thumb.  I later would spend more than a year working in College Station, but I never went back to a game. 

A girl I was after at the time was in the cool-kids suite because she was also being pursued by the Chancellor's son.....this schmuck, who had just put this book out.....so she had the luxury-box experience that day.  He was older than me, had a way better lifestyle (dunno if he made lots of money or his family just had it, or both) and drove a way nicer car than me.  Fortunately, he had the personality of a platypus (my opinion, no one else's) and I got her anyway.  She was a Longhorn fan anyway, from Austin, where I knew her from, so there was really no sense in her getting tangled up with an Aggie like that.  Made way more sense to get tangled up with a poor, but way cooler, tiger like myself.

Anyway, it was a good time with a great atmosphere, I reckon.  Just never could figure out why the fan chants kept sawing the Horns off.....of Oklahoma? 

A little more backstory...in 2000 A&M nearly upset OU at Kyle.  A very late int-return-TD was the difference.  This was the OU national championship team.  In 2002, we beat #1 OU at Kyle, RC's last season.  In 2003, OU decapitated us 77-0.  I didn't actually watch the game, but I heard it was an abject disaster.  Somebody should do a 20+ years later backstory on that one, because that score is absurd.  I heard that OU actually quit playing sometime during the 3rd quarter, just backups and falling down and stuff, it was that bad.  
So yes the 2004 game was a heartbreaker.  I don't think we beat OU again until 2010, but we came real close at Kyle again in about 2006.  The worst part was that in 2010 we beat OU, by 10 points or something, but lost the 3 way tie to represent the Big 12 South in the CCG.  What a shame.  

Well it has to be obvious that the kids quit on the coaches. There were trickles of information coming out years later where it was alluded that the players ended up hating Coach Fran, he was abusive, all kinds of innuendo. 

Weirdly, we beat somebody else right before that game 70 something, but it wasn’t 70 to zero. Like 70-20 or something. It may have been Baylor. 

If you think about it, even when teams like The Citadel play Alabama, they usually score a few points. Maybe 3 or 10.  55-6, 45-3. But 77-0?  Never happens.  

Again, I've always felt that there had to be a little backstory to that one.  Something behind the scenes that transpired, either between Fran and Stoops, or possibly some of the players who had to have had some kind of relationship either in HS or whatever.  Just simply winning the previous years game by a slim margin isn't enough motivation to kill somebody like that.