AUSTIN, Texas (KBTX) - Like a stadium-vibrating blast from Texas’ Smokey the Cannon, Battered Aggie Syndrome came roaring back in full effect Friday for a fanbase that thought their existential dread was dead and buried.

No. 17 Texas handed No. 3 Texas A&M its first loss of the season, souring — at least for the meantime — the joyride that has been an 11-0 run through the beginning of the season. There will be no berth into a conference title game for the first time this century. Most likely, there will be no trip to New York for quarterback Marcel Reed when the Heisman Trophy is handed out.

That portion of the season ended with Longhorn quarterback Arch Manning’s 35-yard scamper up the middle of the field and into the end zone.

However, unlike the bone-rattling startle that the cannon

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