Aggies Coach Jimbo Fisher Would 'Love' to Play Longhorns

Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher is looking forward to reigniting the Lonestar Showdown

Matt Galatzan | Jun 1, 2022

The Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies are now on a collision course to renew their age-old rivalry.

Last summer, Texas and the Oklahoma Sooners were admitted into the SEC, following a unanimous 14-0 vote by the SEC Presidents.

The move increases the size of the SEC from 14 to 16 teams, reuniting the Longhorns and the Sooners with former Big 12 foes Texas A&M and Missouri, who left to join the SEC after the 2011 season.

But despite being one of the most storied rivalries in all of college sports, Texas and Texas A&M have not taken the field against one another since the initial move of the Aggies from the Big 12, and have struggled to find common ground in any attempt to revive that rivalry.

Now they have no choice. Texas and Oklahoma are coming.

And after the idea was brought up at the SEC Coaches Meetings on Wednesday, it appears Aggies' head coach Jimbo Fisher is as excited as anyone to reignite the Lone Star Showdown.

"Yeah," Fisher said. "I would love to play Texas."

Texas leads the all-time series with the Aggies by a 76-37-5 margin, with the Longhorns winning the last game in College Station in 2011, and the Aggies winning the last game in Austin in 2010.

The Sooners also have the edge over the Aggies by a 19-12 mark. However, the Aggies have faced off against Oklahoma more recently than their counterparts in Austin, blowing out the Sooners 41-13 at the Cotton Bowl in Arlington in 2013.

As they have previously indicated, the Longhorns and Sooners are prepared to wait to make the official transition until the current grant of rights agreement expires, which is slated to run until July 1, 2025.

Should the two schools elect to move earlier, they would be forced to forgo their remaining Big 12 television revenue of $160 million -- $80 million each.

However, that does not mean the move will not happen sooner.

It should also be noted that at the meetings scheduling format ideas concerning Texas and Oklahoma within the conference took place as well.

Is that a sign towards an expedited move for the two schools?

Only time will tell.

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Published Jun 1, 2022

MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writer’s Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014 covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.