Watching the Texas @ Texas A&M game, I'm amazed at how energetic the fans are. Certainly the rivalry and the fact this is the only college football game on TV in the nation tonight are factors into the excitement level, but I'm still impressed. Not to mention the fact that A&M is probably the most underrated team in the Big 12. It's enough to make them my 2nd favorite Big 12 team.
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I've never really found anything to not like about the Aggies, but I've also had family go to school there so maybe a little biased. Always been treated well even when decked out in ISU gear, the students at the bars and fans in the tailgate lots have always been polite and welcoming before/after the game win or lose.
I think in the A&M-Texas rivalry, A&M is like ISU (ag-heavy, blue collar, right-leaning, perennial underdog in the series) while Texas is like Iowa (business & medicine, liberal, favorite, the more popular "bandwagon" team, etc). Not a shot against Texas or UI, just my observations.
I think in the A&M-Texas rivalry, A&M is like ISU (ag-heavy, blue collar, right-leaning, perennial underdog in the series) while Texas is like Iowa (business & medicine, liberal, favorite, the more popular "bandwagon" team, etc). Not a shot against Texas or UI, just my observations.
I'd have to agree with all the statements. Going down for the football game this year I was in shock with how cordial they are. Buy you beers at a bar, stop you while you are walking and tell you to come have a burger, people telling you to drive safe back home. The town, campus, and people were ridiculously hospitable.
Actually A&M was my school of choice coming out of highschool but I backed out late and went to ISU instead. Always have been a cyclone fan, but very much liked their academics and campus as well. I hate cold winters so naturally A&M had an edge at one point =)
They are still a Texas school and not an original member of the Big 8. I can't like them for those reasons alone.
OSU is my 2nd favorite team in the B12.
OSU is my 2nd favorite team in the B12.
Pretty close observation/comparison, although outside of the AG dept, I don't think Iowa State really leans a certain way politically, the state of Iowa and definitely college campuses have been leaned to the left (not starting anything just an observation myself)
Austin is actually fairly liberal, and I would assume UT would be also by extension.
So is Ames - the city and the rest of Story County form one of the strongest Democratic Party areas in Iowa.
Yes, I certainly agree with that.
But it's a mistake to call Ames and ISU "conservative." At least when it comes to politics. It's a Democratic Party stronghold.
Well, they've played only one really decent opponent at home this year - Oklahoma State - and lost to them.
As the announcers just said, the Texas D has been exposed tonight. They just don't look like they belong in a national title game to me.
