re: Pick your 3 permanent conference opponents

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A&M meh. Don't get me wrong, I like playing them but I have my reasons to not want to play them every season

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In the current setup, they've sort of become our natural rival and they've ended up in the "rivalry week" slot.

I mean we have our usual rival series that have featured good games but all of them have a more heated/anticipated rival

Ole Miss-State
Bama-Auburn/Tennessee
Florida-FSU/UGA
Auburn-Bama/UGA

With Aggy no longer playing Texas, it made some sense that LSU/A&M could develop overtime into that years end heated rivalry. Its a Border war, the series history is there and after beating them the first handful of conference years we got some bad blood back and forth going with the 74-72 controversial OT game, following up with the 50-7 revenge whipping, the last minute go ahead TD, a bad Aggy team officially eliminating us from playoff contention. Over the last 5 for us it's gone L-W-L-W-L so the back and forth is there.

I thought it had the potential over time, the next decade or so, to develop into a featured rivalry game. Like an actual rivalry game and not Magnolia bowl or The boot garbage. But with Texas coming, Obviously that series will return which again puts us the unreciprocated side of a more prominent rivalry series.