Texas fans- I have a question about rivalries

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Which rivalry do you care more about? Oklahoma or Texas ATM

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They are completely different.

One is against family, friends, co-workers and bragging rights. The games haven’t historically meant a whole lot, but you never want to lose. It’s more good natured ribbing.. water cooler talk..

The other is just fricking awesome. You know you are going to get your arse locked sometimes, but it’s a fricking battle. It’s doesn’t matter how good your team is, or what your record is, or what your ranked.. you want to skull frick every single one of them and bury them alive. It’s intense hatred at the fair. You don’t get that on here because most of us don’t know many of the other fans.

Idk if that makes sense.

If I had to pick one.. I’m always going to be Oklahoma. That doesn’t mean that A&M isn’t as important.. it is.. it’s just different.

I would choose to play both forever.

Beating OU is better than beating A&M.
Losing to A&M is worse than losing to OU.

I think it's equal. The A&M rivalry is very important to a lot of people in this state. Most of us have family who went to both universities so Thanksgiving used to be a lot of fun. I would be lying if I said I didn't hope they bring that game back on Thanksgiving weekend.
Oklahoma rivalry is just as intense. I still hate Barry Switzer LOL.
Also don't sleep on the Arkansas rivalry. I am old enough to remember that one and it was intense and I fully expect that to heat up quickly.

I'm a 3rd generation Longhorn, met my wife there, and am a former 20-year season ticket holder. I don't know a single Texas fan that considers anyone other than OU to be our main rival. We hate them but we respect them. Personally, I don't hate A&M (other than the potbanger/Milkman/Corps contingent, but this is a small portion of their fanbase), but I don't respect them, either.

One thing I will say positively about both schools - the academic smack talk is very inaccurate. Gates (A&M) and Boren (OU) dramatically improved academics across the board, and with the Top 6% rule for UT (ironically a significant disadvantage to kids attending good in-state public schools), I would have been OK (but not thrilled) if my kids had gone to either one. Thankfully they were too brainwashed in their formative years to even consider it.

Oklahoma. Aggie is a joke, they never win anything worth celebrating to us.

I actually love both. In-state rival is fun to talk trash to for the rest of the year. Out of state rival is fun also. I’m glad to be back to playing Arky on the regular. 3 rivals makes this jump to the SEC very meaningful.

Based on the way the UTa posters act on this board, it seems like A&M is their bigger rival. OU seems like a weak sex gimp that does whatever the longhorns tell them to do. Maybe that is the difference. The Aggies don’t seem to dick ride UTa like OU does. I don’t know. Just how it seems to me. But, look at all of the posts on here. UTa seems obsessed with A&M.

Every tu fan I know was rooting for OU in the cotton bowl in 2012. That should tell you something.

Texas-OU is a top four college football rivalry featuring two historic blue blood programs, TX/TXA&M is a top in state rivalry that is lobsided with one being royalty and the other an underachieving wannabe.