What aTm fans think about playing us.....

[ponydawg]

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Boy would I love to beat them.....
Hope we get the chance to.

[jtstang]

"Smu would rather have A&M than the Okie lite inbreds for one real reason. Money!!

There would be a lot more Ags than inbreds at the gate."

Like there's a discernable difference.

[PonySoprano]

There is a difference:

One group of fans are dressed in their bright orange, road crew clean-up, prison jump suits. The other group of fans likes to play dress up and pretend they are part of the SS back in 1939.

[Stallion]

the two most shocked Stadiums I ever remember were when SMU tied Ohio St 35-35 in Columbus 1978 and when we tied Texas A&M what was it 13-13 in San Antonio in 1982. I still remember riding the San Antonio rapid transportation where their fans were ready to string R.C. up for tieing a one win team with a Top 10 teams. Fact is we should have won both games.

[Hal]

There is a difference:

One group of fans are dressed in their bright orange, road crew clean-up, prison jump suits. The other group of fans likes to play dress up and pretend they are part of the SS back in 1939.

And don't forget the guys who look like nurses' aides that A&M trots out there on the sideline, the ones going through a series of spastic gyrations and finger-pointing and screaming like they're suffering from some sort of incurable pain.

[king_k]

I love the characterization of the Okie Staters as a road clean up crew. I formerly called them road cones, but I think I'll make the switch. If you haven't seen OK State orange, it is awful especially on the uniform pants. Maybe its so distracting that we couldn't focus on Woods enough to defend him.

[PonySoprano]

the two most shocked Stadiums I ever remember were when SMU tied Ohio St 35-35 in Columbus 1978 and when we tied Texas A&M what was it 13-13 in San Antonio in 1982. I still remember riding the San Antonio rapid transportation where their fans were ready to string R.C. up for tieing a one win team with a Top 10 teams. Fact is we should have won both games.

I assume you meant the 21-21 tie against aTm 1994 at the Alamodome. As I recall, we got the ball with little time left, and Ramon drove us into field goal range (albeit a long field goal). We missed the FG with no time left to settle for a tie against the Ags, who were #7 in the country at the time, and finished the season without a loss.

[KnuckleStang]

We also scared the poo out of them the next year (our last meeting?), with a three-point loss on their home turf, I believe. They weren't #7, like in '94, but they were still in the top 25. Although I'd imagine they may have dropped out of the rankings after that game.

[Dooby]

I was at that game. We were robbed.

[GoRedGoBlue]

I was at that game. We were robbed.

ALBERT CONNELL landed with his feet in bounds, I was there, I saw it, I was on the 10 yard line on the home field side. His feet were in bounds, about .25 seconds after his upper body landed out of bounds.

Nevermind the fake Pass Interference to set up the winning 'fake' TD.

ANYONE got video of this?

[GoRedGoBlue]

the two most shocked Stadiums I ever remember were when SMU tied Ohio St 35-35 in Columbus 1978 and when we tied Texas A&M what was it 13-13 in San Antonio in 1982. I still remember riding the San Antonio rapid transportation where their fans were ready to string R.C. up for tieing a one win team with a Top 10 teams. Fact is we should have won both games.

RC wasn't coaching in '82, Jackie may not have been either.

Ramon "won" the '94 (?) game 21-21 in SAT. I believe we went 1-9-1 (last SWC) and aTm went 10-0-1 but was probation ('1st' SWC) and was this the same year that 5 teams tied for the SWC 'champ' and Tech went to the Cotton bowl and got blown out 44-14 or something to USC?

[Diehard Pony]

GoRedGoBlue wrote:
RC wasn't coaching in '82, Jackie may not have been either.

The '82 game against A&M was a slaughter (and Jackie was coaching), with SMU winning by a score of 47-9 in Texas Stadium in front of 50,008 on national TV. Still have the video. Eric D. went 82 yards on the first play of the 2nd half for a TD.

[EastStang]

The Aggie game I most enjoyed was in 1974. We beat them at the Cotton Bowl and they were ranked #1 in the Country going into the game. Louie Kelcher had like 20 tackles and personally stuffed their wishbone fullback option. We then messed up their halftime show with whistles and to add insult to injury, after the win, the Mustang Band played and played and played so the Aggies could not have their mandatory yell practice. The next year at A&M they had their "storm troopers" with swords posted all around the SMU student section. Poor guys, they were taunted the entire games with such statements as, "hey do you smell something."

[Ikus]

ALBERT CONNELL landed with his feet in bounds, I was there, I saw it, I was on the 10 yard line on the home field side. His feet were in bounds, about .25 seconds after his upper body landed out of bounds.

Well, if his upper body landed out of bounds before his feet landed in bounds, then the pass should have been ruled incomplete. What I remember most about seeing tape of that play was the fact that he "went Michael Irvin" and shoved off to create a little separation before the ball got there. I hate to blame officiating, but that game should be remembered as an SMU win. We stood toe-to-toe with the Aggies and beat them. Home field officiating?

[PonySoprano]

We also scared the poo out of them the next year (our last meeting?), with a three-point loss on their home turf, I believe. They weren't #7, like in '94, but they were still in the top 25. Although I'd imagine they may have dropped out of the rankings after that game.

In 1994, they were #7 in the country at the time we played them. They finished the season without a loss (10-0-1), but were not eligible for a bowl because of probation. In '94, we also at a 4 point loss to #18 North Carolina at Ownby (28-24 when the "great" Mack Brown was coaching UNC), and we lost 17-10 to #13 UCLA at the Rose Bowl. In that UCLA game, Ramon drove us down inside the 20 with less than 2 minutes to go, and we couldn't get the TD. We also had a series earlier in the game where we had a 1st and goal and came away with 0 points. That was a tough day at the Rose Bowl for me. Man, 1994 was a heart-breaking year.

In 1995, we lost to #22 aTm at Kyle Field 20-17, on the last play of the game when Albert Connell caught that TD pass a few plays after a phantom pass interference call.