The Chicken Ranch said:
Threadbare said:
It's not a rivalry and nobody cares about it.
Citing circumstances from before WWI will not change anyone's mind.
It will never have the meaning that the game with Texas did.
Other than a transient annoyance with LSU because they've had our number for so long (going right back to the CWS in '93), I don't really care about it all. If we played New Mexico this weekend instead, that would be okay with me.
I've got to chime in here and vehemently disagree.
First of all, LSU has always been our second biggest rival. Bigger than Arkansas and Tech. We historically played them the first game of the season, or very early, then ended with tu. The series with LSU dates back to the 1890's, and has had drama, bad blood and has usually had a rippling effect on the other.
Right now your problem is that you are hard wired to play tu on Thanksgiving. Trying to play this game on that date was a huge folly on our part because we were trying to "replace" the tu game. We shouldn't have tried to do that because LSU has no history of playing on Thanksgiving, certainly not against us. Moving this game to Saturday will be an improvement.
The last several years have seen a broken, beat down, and mentally tired A&M team by the time we are playing LSU. This year is no different. A win means nothing to us, as we will undoubtably end up in some crap bowl that no one cares about, against a similar team that has had a similar season. We would be disinterested against anyone but tu.
Basically, this rivalry is not what it once was. It needs to be played earlier in the season. It would be better for us to play Arkansas this week, as we historically played them in November. Ultimately, I bet we renew with tu on Thanksgiving (right or wrong - don't debate it here), and this game moves back to September as it should. It doesn't need to be the first game each year, but we can open up SEC play with them.
I agree that Arkansas would have been the better choice. I hate the thing in Dallas and wish it would go away.
The LSU game will be whatever it ends up being; maybe it will evolve into something meaningful.
But, for me, it's silly when I see people trying to convince themselves or others that it compares to where we were with Texas.
