Texas, A&M look into renewing rivalry game

Presidents of Texas and Texas A&M said they would like to figure out a way to bring back the rivalry game between their schools’ football teams.

Once an annual affair, the game hasn’t been played since 2011, the year Texas A&M decided to switch conferences from the Big 12 to the SEC.

“It’s a storied rivalry,” Texas president Greg Fenves told the Austin American-Statesman on Friday. “We’ve told our ADs to figure out a plan and bring it to us.”

The president, however, told the newspaper it isn’t as easy as it sounds.

“You have to get the weekend that coincides and works together,” Texas A&M president Michael Young said. “It is complicated. Our schedules don’t match very well. They have nonconference games in the beginning; we have ours interspersed more throughout the season. All of this makes it very hard to schedule.”

It wasn’t clear how many years it would be before the teams could see each other back on the field.

“There are some real practical and contractual issues with scheduling nonconference games,” Fenves said. “The SEC is different from the Big 12. We have nonconference games scheduled 10 years out.”

–Field Level Media