Ross Bjork offers key detail about upcoming renewal of Texas A&M-Texas rivalry
By Keith Farner
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One of the biggest storylines of Oklahoma and Texas joining the SEC is the resumption of the Longhorns’ rivalry with Texas A&M.
Now a new development has emerged from the Aggies athletics director, Ross Bjork, who told the Houston Chronicle that when the teams meet, no later than 2025, the location is set.
“I can’t imagine the atmosphere when that game is played,” Ross Bjork told the Houston Chronicle on Thursday during the SEC spring meetings. “And it will be played at Kyle Field.”
As a league newcomer along with the Sooners, the Longhorns don’t really have a say in the league’s early scheduling anyway, Bjork added.
“It’s a whole new day, it’s a whole new league and it’s a whole new format,” 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 …”
Matt Hayes reported earlier this week that Oklahoma and Texas have been involved in the scheduling talks, but officials from those schools were not present at the meetings this week in Destin, Florida.
“They realize they’re going to be very, very happy to be in the SEC, and that’s why they made the move,” Bjork said. “They’ll take whatever (they can get) … and they don’t have a vote in the process, it’s only current membership.”
The teams have not met since 2011, and have split the last 6 meetings.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
