What type of weather looms for Texas Longhorns Showdown at Texas A&M?
The biggest football game in Texas in years kicks off at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Kyle Field.
And the weather appears poised to be a nonfactor.
When No. 3 Texas (10-1, 6-1 in the SEC) meets No. 20 Texas A&M (9-3, 5-2) temperatures are expected to hover around 56 degrees with 0% chance of rain with little to no wind.
Beautiful — perhaps ideal — football conditions, befitting a rivalry that goes back to 1894.
Especially for such a massive, College Football Playoff pairings-altering game between two longtime arch rivals who last met on the football field on Nov. 24, 2011, in College Station.
The Horns won 27-25 on a last-second Justin Tucker field goal at Kyle Field.
But the Aggies left Texas and the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference the following season and the teams haven’t played since.
Now, Texas has joined the SEC (along with Oklahoma), rekindling the deep but dormant rivalry between the two schools and their students, their alumni, their boosters, and just about anyone across the state who has a passing interest in football.
Yeah, this is going to be must-watch television, with the game airing nationally on ABC and ESPN+. Not to mention, the day starts with ESPN’s College Football Gameday airing live from Aggie Park on the A&M campus from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday morning.
Saturday’s showdown is the first meeting between the schools with both ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 — Texas No. 3, Texas A&M No. 20 — since 2004.
As if the natural, Lone Star State-imbued stakes weren’t enough, both teams are playing for a berth in the SEC title game against Georgia on Dec. 2. That’s something the Aggies have yet to do in their first 11 seasons in the league. The Horns are trying to do it in their first.
Overall, Texas owns a 76-37-5 all-time record against Texas A&M, including 9-3 in the past 12 meetings.
The Aggies’ most dominant stretch in the series was from 1984 to 1994 when they won 10 of 11 meetings in the final decade-plus of the Southwest Conference.
This story was originally published November 30, 2024 at 9:38 AM.