I've been aching for a rematch with Texas since 1969!!!!
They thumped us 36-13 in the Cotton Bowl.
A guy that I was working for while occasionally attending classes at UT(GI bill help was $100 a month) had been an all-state QB and had accumulated a half million dollars by age 21 and hoped to be a millionaire by 23 and was well on his way but bet some guy from Texas $10,000 on that game and then, I suppose because that was a big part of his working capital, was solid broke by the age of 23, another friend of mine purchased his $600 set of golf clubs for about $50.
Anyway Tennessee has played Texas three times, all in the Cotton Bowl which used to be one of the big four bowls before Dallas let the Cotton fall into disrepair.
We are 1-2 vs the Horns.
1951 - W UT 20 ut 14
1953 - L UT 0 ut 16
1969 - L UT 13 ut 36
I wish AtM could get to be competitive with Texas again, I have become acquainted with some Aggies and I like them a lot, other than one young couple I met a few years ago who were Horn alumni, I've not run into any Texas fans I care for that much, plus a lot of them have that Berkeley East mentality i don't especially care for.
That young couple really really didn't like Simms, they said he showed up the first day on campus in a custom limo and was never well liked on campus, his position seemed to have gone to his head, I'm glad his mother influenced him the way she did, I just wish they hadn't waited until the last minute to drop their bomb on us, that hurt.
Tennessee beat AtM 3-0 in the '57 Gator Bowl and 38-7 in the '05 Cotton.
I wonder if the average Aggie fan still thinks firing Slocum was such a bright idea now???
They were .721 with Slocum.
Slocum was 7/7 vs Texas which was way better than their .333 win rate over a 114 game history.
He lost the last three to Texas and then they had three more straight losses with a new coach.
They were .525 from 2003 through 2007.
2003 4-8
2004 7-5
2005 5-6
2006 9-4
2007 7-6
Now they've hired Mike Sherman
(bio), can you imagine a better hire for Atm??
Still no instantaneous miraculous march to a championship.
AtM 2008 season so far;
2-3
Arkansas ST L 18-14
@New Mexico W 28-22
Miami (Fl) L 41-23
Army W 21-17
@ Okla St L 56-28
You do have to give the Aggie program some credit though, they do have a two year win streak going vs the vaunted Horns!!!:yahoo: