If you needed one more reminder that the Lone Star Showdown is a living, breathing, trash-talk-powered organism, Texas fans delivered it on cue. Hours before kickoff, the Longhorn faithful greeted HC Mike Elko’s No. 3 Texas A&M with the kind of welcome that could frost over a July afternoon in College Station.

Because the minute Aggies players headed toward the tunnel, Texas fans unloaded the one word no undefeated team wants to hear.

“Preseason number 1 fans chanting ‘overrated’ as Texas A&M hits the lockers,” David Nuno posted on X on November 28.

But this wasn’t just noise. It was a strategy. For the first time since 2010, Texas A&M was back in Austin, and Texas students lined up two hours before kickoff, spilling outside the northeast corner all the way toward the Moody Center. UT e

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