re: Do you want Arkansas or Texas A&M as end of year "Rival?"

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LSU called it quits after they got tired of A&M handing them their asses 5 years in a row. Backed out of the contract and used conference expansion as an excuse.

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We backed out of the EXTENSION of the contract. The original 10-year contract was completed. And yes, conference expansion and the 8th SEC game had a lot to do with it. With four guaranteed away games in the SEC, we could not afford (while Joe Dean was around) to play a road game outside the conference every other year. We still played the last four years of the original 10-year contract after expansion, though. Funny thing is, by the time we actually got to the end of that contract, the 1996 season was upcoming and A&M was part of the new Big XII, which also played 8 conference games, so they probably would have wanted to end it by then, too.

In any event, Texas A&M is lucky that the series ended when it did. We would have dominated it between 1996 and 2011, based on the relative quality of the two teams during that time.