Texas A&M Aggies

The Texas A&M University Aggies football team have been going for over 115 years. Since their establishment, the Texas Aggies have won a national title along with 18 conference titles and has had two undefeated seasons. For about a 30 year period, ending in 1971, the Texas Aggies had a very unlucky time.

Everything was turned around with the hiring of Emory Bellard as head coach who returned the team to the status they had once known. The years after Bellard was at the forefront of the Aggie squad went up and down, before once again being saved by a new head coach in 1981, Jackie Sherrill. During Sherrill’s reign over the Aggies, the team won three consecutive conference titles and two Cotton Bowl Classics.

One of the Texas Aggies’ worst season in school history was recently in 2008 with head coach Mike Sherman, finishing with a record of 4-9 which included a 49-9 loss against the Texas Longhorns.

A long-time tradition for the Texas Aggies is their rivalry with the University of Texas. This rivalry has been ongoing for ninety years and includes the Texas A&M students have a large bonfire on campus each fall. This bonfire symbolizes burning the Texas University team in the next game. This tradition began in 1909 and became sanctioned by the school three decades later.