DESTIN, Fla. – Texas A&M doesn’t know what year it will first renew its celebrated rivalry with Texas. No later than 2025 but perhaps 2024. The Aggies know exactly where it will be, however. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can’t imagine the atmosphere when that game is played,\u201d A&M athletic director Ross Bjork told the Houston Chronicle on Thursday during the SEC spring meetings. “And it will be played at Kyle Field.” <\/p>\n
The last meeting between the Aggies and Longhorns also was played in College Station in 2011. Bjork said the old schedule has no bearing on what he dubbed a \u201cnew day\u201d – Texas and Oklahoma joining the Southeastern Conference officially by July 1, 2025, but maybe a year sooner. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a whole new day, it’s a whole new league and it’s a whole new format,\u201d Bjork said of A&M hosting the first game with its old Southwest Conference and Big 12 rival, and therefore playing consecutive games at Kyle Field. “That’s something that’s important to us …” <\/p>\n
STORIED FEUD: <\/strong>Jimbo Fisher big on renewal of A & M-Texas football rivalry<\/p>\n As a league newbie along with the Sooners, the Longhorns don’t really have a say in the league’s early scheduling anyway, Bjork added. <\/p>\n \u201cThey realize they’re going to be very, very happy to be in the SEC, and that’s why they made the move,\u201d Bjork said. “They’ll take whatever (they can get) … and they don’t have a vote in the process, it’s only current membership.” <\/p>\n He added that UT athletic director Chris Del Conte and OU athletic director Joe Castiglione have been a part of some of the SEC’s spring meetings taking place this week, from afar. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThey know the models being discussed,\u201d Bjork added of whether the SEC chooses a nine-game or eight-game league schedule when it becomes a 16-member conference. (But) they don’t (officially) have a vote until July 1, 2025. ” <\/p>\n