Confused Californian Asks: Why Is A&M Our Rival?

[Lam Dinh]

40 minutes ago, caliHORNia said:

Do you have kids?  Graduating 2011 odds are 50/50.  If you have multiple kids you know you don't split your love when the 2nd one comes, you find more love.

So it is with Rival Hate.  Once you accept them as your Rival, your hate will double like a gift from god.

Haha, I do have kids and now you got me thinking about how I can better allow my hate to grow and develop so that hate is not a zero sum game. This is why OTF is the greatest community 🙂

[Austalgia]

Confused Californian asks why is A&M our rival? 
 

Recency bias Texan answers: Because they stole our runining back recruit. 

[Lam Dinh]

Sark not being phased by the Aggie War Hymn was most likely because he didn't even recognize what the Aggie War Hym was.

Sark has spent most of his life in California and out of Texas, and that war hymn is not recognized by anyone outside of the state of Texas.

Do I know the Michigan fight song? Yes (thank you EA sports). Do I know the Ohio State song, unfortunately that has been imprinted in my head after years of ESPN. The Oklahoma song, again, unfortunately yes its' beat is undeniable.

The "Aggie War Hym"? I couldn't pick it out of a lineup, and obviously neither could Sark 🙂

[TexasMDcoach]

On 7/9/2025 at 9:42 PM, Lam Dinh said:

I appreciate the history of the two schools and it makes sense that A&M was more a threat in the 90s. My point is just that if we are truly one of the blue bloods of college football, we can’t let a program whose biggest accomplishment came prior to World War 2 to still suck this much oxygen out of the room when discussing Texas football. We should be talking way more about Georgia and Alabama, then care about what goes on in college station. 

As one who grew up in Texas I definitely get why A&M is considered a rival, but having lived out of state  the last 30 plus years I also agree with your perspective as well.