Traditionally, in college football,
the last game of the season is against your most hated rival.
If you win this one,
the next nine months become so much better.
So much better.
It is a game of doing, but we're gonna be ready to go do it.
This is the one day on everybody's calendar
that is the same in Mississippi.
It is the Egg Bowl.
Hail State, baby, let's go!
Hotty Toddy Gosh almighty, who the hell are we?
It's the slugfest that happens between Ole Miss and Mississippi State.
The cool is lost. Everybody charging out onto the field.
Starkville and Oxford may be in the same state,
but they may as well be on different planets.
One is white-collar, one is blue-collar.
One is farmland, one is hotty toddy.
The bad blood goes back generations.
Plenty of bad blood in the Lone Star State too.
Texas versus Texas A&M.
Aggies call Texas grads T-Sips,
because they're the type of people that would sip tea with their pinky up.
-Come on! -Gig' em!
They probably call us fucking rednecks.
Gig 'em, baby!
This year is the biggest game in the history of this rivalry.
The winner of this game goes to the SEC Championship.
If you win the SEC, you're gonna make the playoff.
You can't ask for more in terms of stakes.
This is the showdown between the two biggest teams in Texas,
for all the bragging rights.
What's the rule about throwing a ball in the house?
-Don't knock anything off. -No.
Is that the rule?
Knock something, you won't get in trouble 'cause you hit it with a ball.
-'Cause you hit it with a ball. -Correct.
Okay, I'll hit something now.
Exactly, I thought you might say that.
-I don't think so. -Let's not try to.
You've broken two light bulbs in your room lately.
Yeah, and you shattered something last night in the office.
I don't know if I have a true first football memory.
I was at football games as I was six, seven, eight months old,
and so I grew up in it.
Knew that I wanted to do this all my life.
Jeff Lebby. Head football coach, Mississippi State.
Read this out for Dad to read.
-I'm not gonna read it out loud. -Yes.
She wrote a paper on being at the football stadium.
Ugh!
Bad ball.
So many different things have gone on to create my opportunity here.
I was the offensive coordinator for five different schools,
and, for me, it created this great vision of what I wanted to accomplish.
I want to build a program to change people's lives.
You wrote this by yourself?
Yes, sir.
This is the best writing you've done all year.
-Did you read it? -Not yet. Not all the way.
He can't read.
The greatest calling of coaching is taking young people places they can't themselves.
"Cowgirl boots making a clicking sound every time I step."
"This place will be stuck in my heart
because I get to see my dad achieve his dream."
-I need a copy of that for my office. -Seriously.
Coach Bell, need tea?
I feel like I got the greatest job in the world, but it takes a lot.
Fun doesn't mean easy.
Push, not pull.
When I got here to Mississippi State, we were dealing with a ton of turnover.
After having all these different coaches and coordinators,
a lot of players went in the portal.
We had zero starters on offense and zero starters on defense
that had started a game at Mississippi State last year.
Jeff Lebby walked into a tough deal.
They're basically starting over from scratch.
So, Lebby comes in
and immediately sets out to find the best players that he can get.
Most of your players have not gotten to play in a lot of SEC games,
or have not played in a single SEC game,
but you gotta try. Gotta make it work with whoever you have.
Hit it like you live. Let's go, let's go!
Rolling out.
Ooh. Who was that to?
That was to Justin. That was on the money.
I grew up in South London.
Back home, you don't see a lot of guys playing American football.
Get some tea after this, bruv.
But I just knew, with my work ethic,
give me a shot, and let me show you why you brought me here.
-What do you have, Ziko? -I got an out.
You got the flat. Let's go.
Good. Firm feet.
Ziko didn't grow up playing true football, but has this great skill set.
He's extra competitive.
We want him just to play fast every single snap.
Hands, hands, hands, hands, hands!
Flash! Flash!
Stone is quarterback of the defense.
His job is to create leadership and toughness on that side of the ball
that we needed in a bad way.
-You've shit yourself before? -No, dude.
I-- I hate the topic of-- of poop, and they call me Poopy 'cause of it.
Zakari, down.
You need to grow up. You need to grow up.
My earliest memory of football would be going to the Egg Bowl
with my brothers and cousins.
I was a huge Mississippi State fan, so I always grew up hating Ole Miss.
Inside out.
I'm so blessed to be able to play for the Bulldogs.
Kinda my dream growing up.
All in God's plan, so…
Jog off. Offense up, offense up.
Offense up.
One of my first football games, I was six years old.
I actually was playing running back.
The quarterback handed me the ball,
I turned around and ran the opposite way.
All the parents were like, "Hey, turn around!"
And I ended up scoring a 99-yard touchdown running the opposite way.
Attaway, 2.
Thank you for taking the meeting room to the grass.
Recruiting Blake was a priority for us.
Watch the guy play, he's got this incredible amount of toughness,
and he can make every throw on the field.
All week we've talked about energy and effort,
two things we've got the ability to control.
It is a game of doing, but we're gonna be ready to go do it.
"Downs" on three. One, two, three.
Downs!
Everything in sports has a sign.
At Mississippi State,
the cowbell is traditionally a football thing.
Nobody's really clear on the year,
but the legend is that a cow walked onto the field
when Mississippi State was playing Ole Miss.
The Rebels of Ole Miss come roaring into Scott Field
in Starkville, Mississippi.
Mississippi State rallied to victory.
After that, fans adopted the cowbell.
When we talk about a place like Starkville,
I love to use the term "Cathedral of Chaos"
for the most hostile environments of college football.
After football games, the Mississippi State fans
have blisters from ringing the cowbell.
That's college football right there.
But it's been a minute since they've been truly good.
Mississippi State has hired Jeff Lebby.
Three coaches in three years. This time it's Jeff Lebby.
Thirty-nine years old. He was at Ole Miss before that.
-Welcome. -Appreciate it.
Jeff Lebby? Is he the safest bet?
Probably not. This thing could go horribly wrong.
That is a risk you take
whenever you hire someone who's never been a head coach.
They needed a reset, and they expect big things.
Mississippi Bulldogs and Florida Gators.
Shapen's grabbing at his shoulder.
Florida wins today here in Starkville.
Touchdown, Texas, DeAndre Moore!
Mississippi State will head to Starkville
after falling here against Georgia.
Nobody expects them to go to the playoffs, but let's be real. This is the SEC.
Mississippi State fans still wanna win.
They're still paying Jeff Lebby millions of dollars to coach.
Mississippi State drops to oh-and-four in conference play.
If you are Mississippi State,
every Saturday, you're pushing a boulder up a hill
that's not gonna end
until the clock hits triple zero of that Egg Bowl.
Mississippi State, oh-and-seven in SEC play.
There is such a fine line
of being on the right side and the wrong side.
I'm incredibly frustrated.
I'm pissed off. I'm upset. I'm disappointed.
The thing that frustrates me more than anything
is that you're not getting to feel good.
You're not getting to enjoy this shit.
You're laying a foundation for something that's gonna be real damn special.
But I hate the fact that you have to be in here,
not in a happy-ass locker room.
Who are we gonna be?
What are we willing to do to have the ability to change the outcome?
Everybody here, man, having great accountability.
And it starts, without a doubt, with me.
So now, if you're Mississippi State,
there's one game left on your schedule.
The nastiest rivalry in college football, the Egg Bowl.
But how do they handle it?
Do they quit,
or do they have the pride to come out and win this last regular season game?
Mississippi State has nothing to lose.
A very disappointing year one.
Mississippi State hasn't had an SEC win.
You know, oh-and-seven in the SEC, two-and-nine overall.
You beat Ole Miss to close out the year,
a lot of sins can be forgiven.
This season, it's been hard.
Our outcomes have not been what we've wanted.
But what happened yesterday doesn't dictate what happens tomorrow.
It's always about what's next.
As hard as it is, as disappointing as it is,
as frustrating as it is,
we have the ability to end the season the way we wanna end it.
And for us, gonna be fighting like heck to bring the Egg Bowl back to Starkville.
Everywhere we go!
People want to know!
Who the hell we are!
College Station is a college town in itself.
So you're kinda in your own little world, but one that has a ton of people
that live, breathe,
and truly embody everything that Texas A&M is about.
No horns! No horns!
There are certain things that you won't see at other schools
throughout the SEC or the country.
-Seventeen! -Down!
Eighteen!
From the Corps of Cadets to the Yell Leaders.
No female cheerleaders.
They've got the Yell Leaders, these guys in painting coveralls.
Their mascot is a collie named Reveille,
who has her own dorm room and a statue in front of Kyle Field.
They have their own hand signals. They essentially have their own language.
Defense!
They have a lot traditions at Texas A&M,
and they're fiercely proud of them.
Everybody else thinks they're real strange.
But when you see it in the context of that stadium…
…you understand why they love it so much.
About… face!
The A&M football budget is as deep as they want it to go.
And in theory,
they thought you could buy your way to the top,
but it went pretty poorly for them.
Times are not good in College Station, Texas.
It is one of the most mystifying things in college football,
why Texas A&M has not been better over the years.
Well, I call them Texas eight-and-four for a reason.
A&M has always failed to live up to the potential,
and that is why Mike Elko is being brought in here.
So please welcome back your new head football coach, Mike Elko.
-Howdy! -Howdy!
When Mike Elko was previously here as the defensive coordinator,
A&M had one of the best defenses in all the country.
His defenses play with a pretty nasty mentality.
He's hit by Nic Scourton with another tackle for loss.
That, establishing the personality of the defense right off the bat,
is one of the most important things Mike Elko does when he gets there.
And the Aggies just went on a roll.
Avoids that. A push in the back.
That will go as a sack.
Intercepted! He threw it across the middle!
Taurean York!
All of a sudden, they're talking potential SEC Championship game appearance,
they're talking maybe a playoff berth at Texas A&M.
It sets up this huge clash at Kyle Field,
last game of the season,
against your bitter, bitter, rivals who you haven't played since 2011,
the University of Texas.
You're playing against your biggest rival for the first time in 12 years,
you have to win to get into the college football playoff,
and now all the pressure's on.
This game was always gonna mean something, and now it means everything.
Over the past few games, Texas A&M's defense has been a letdown.
They allowed 44 against South Carolina, 43 against Auburn.
That was an overtime game, but still, it got to overtime
because A&M's defense just not quite what it had been.
Straight lines!
Don't be loopy. Vertical.
Run that again!
This rivalry being back
is something that matters to everyone in this state.
It's been asked about since I got hired probably 2,000 times,
and I think with all of the stakes that this game has,
couldn't have set up to be any bigger than it's going to be Saturday.
Get set. Go!
If you have enough trust and confidence in who you are and what you do,
you just rely on that.
Leverage. Ah, Jesus Christ! Open your eyes!
Coach Elko, he's a coach that's gonna call it how it is.
He's never not gonna tell you the truth.
You want an honest opinion about yourself, he'll let you know.
If for nothing else, when you're blitzing…
Yeah.
…and you're running right up the ass of the guy on your own team…
Yeah.
…how about you just adjust?
He's a hard nose.
He's gonna get on you, but he's a people person,
so I feel a lot of players relate to Elko, and he can relate to us.
You need anything? A drink? An umbrella drink or anything?
-I'm good. -You sure?
You want an umbrella? Like, some shade?
-I feel good. -All right. Just making sure.
I don't want you to feel as though your needs aren't being taken care of.
Okay, sure.
You go one-and-one in your last two games, I'll take this one.
I think you and 570,000 living alums.
Keep the ball in front of you, put pressure on the quarterback?
Yeah. Got to keep the ball in front of us.
We just haven't been able to get it right in the middle.
It's driving me batshit bonkers, Sam.
But I'll fix it. That's my job.
If we'd have said, "Hey, this game here at the beginning of the year…
-This… Everything. -For everything.
-I'd say, "Okay, let's do it." -Let's do it.
-We're here. -We're here.
-I gotta go coach. I'll see you guys. -All right.
Line the fuck up!
When you hire Mike Elko, you assume the defense is gonna be elite,
yet things are trending in the wrong direction.
Hey, Dalton!
We wanna block their guy, not BJ.
The Achilles heel is the defensive backfield.
That has been a disaster.
I want you to double the guy on the other team.
-I thought… -You good with that?
-Yes, sir. -All right.
-I thought he'd leap… -Y'all didn't win a state title?
-No. -I didn't think so.
Now going up against Steve Sarkisian, head coach at Texas,
he's an offensive wizard.
This is a nightmare matchup, potentially, for Texas A&M.
They've gotta be careful,
otherwise they can get embarrassed on their home field.
They've thrown more passes under five yards
than any team in the country this year.
That's really better than stretching it.
Taurean figured it out. You gotta run.
Taurean York is an undersized linebacker who makes plays all over the field.
He just racks up tackles.
If you run, right?
The ball's gonna get all jammed up, and we'll get off blocks and tackles.
A guy like Taurean York, who is the quarterback of the defense,
who pays attention, and who can direct traffic on the field,
is critically important in this game
because he's gonna have to get his teammates in the right place pre-snap,
or they're gonna give up huge plays.
This thing will come down to our ability
to keep the ball in front of us
without getting on our heels.
You will go into that stadium, 107,000 people strong,
and you'll go toe-to-toe with these fucking guys.
We gotta hit this shit out of this kid.
He's gotta get hit all day,
and get really, really uncomfortable in the pocket.
Get locked in, do the things you gotta do,
come out here Saturday, and play our best fucking football. Let's get it.
"Bring it" on two. One, two.
I'm going to surprise my mom.
My family, they live out in the country, so they've got a lot of land, some cattle.
A lot of space, usually ride dirt bikes, but we've got a big game on Saturday,
so no dirt bikes today.
How you doing?
We're here.
I'm glad y'all made it.
-Did you know this? -Come on now.
Of course.
We were seven-and-six last year. We were bad.
This year, we're eight-and-three right now.
So if y'all beat Texas, you'll jump to tenth? Ninth?
It don't matter what we jump to. We gotta win. There ain't no other option.
Win, win, win. We've gotta beat Texas and then go to the Egg.
If we lose the SEC Championship, we're not going to the playoffs either.
Y'all get it. It's gonna be a good game, man.
If everybody play up to their potential, I think we're gonna get them.
-I know we're gonna get them. -It's going to be rocking all…
Really starting tomorrow, there's gonna be so much surrounding it.
This game means a lot to a lot of people.
Let me see that rock.
Not only 'cause we're playing Texas,
but because it's an opportunity to go to the SEC Championship game.
But as far as me, it's extremely personal.
No, I gotta be quarterback. Who's gonna guard me?
I grew up 50 minutes away from the University of Texas.
I was a top 1,000 player.
They never called me, didn't show me any attention.
Set, go.
I had a high school teammate who was recruited by Texas,
and they flew a helicopter down to Temple.
My coach called me in there to sit in that meeting with them.
Set, hut.
Those guys wouldn't give me the time of day.
It put a chip on my shoulder, for sure.
Oh, short pass.
But Texas A&M, they loved me through and through.
They loved me for who I was as a player, as a person.
From that point, I kinda closed the book on Texas.
Dad ain't gonna be happy about that one.
Y'all ready? For the game, all right?
I knew if I had a chance to play them, I was gonna make them pay.
No! No way!
Oh, that's how you do it, dude.
There you go, good.
Nice job right there, men.
Hey, you good?
The season was really hard.
I got hurt, wasn't able to play.
I wish I was in every game.
No one wants to lose, no one wants to be part of a losing team,
but whenever you go through a ton of hard times together,
that's when you build the biggest relationships.
-Good week? -Yes, sir.
-Best week yet? Ain't even close. -You'll see Saturday.
You're damn right.
Go, go, go, go, go!
It's real easy for guys to complain and point the finger at other people.
But I feel like we've just built such a strong brotherhood.
-What's up, two-oh? -What's up, coach?
And we know what our potential is.
That's one thing Coach Lebby emphasizes the most
is it's going to turn around.
It's pouring down rain on us now, but there's gonna be sunshine.
I've never been more convicted in my life. Shit's gonna get right.
-100%. -We're gonna get it fixed.
You can erase a bad season with a good Egg Bowl win.
This is our Super Bowl.
I'd never been a part of a rivalry until I came here.
If you can't get excited about this shit, something is wrong with you.
I think we're gonna win out.
What's better than the upset?
-"Fuck Ole Miss" on three! -Fuck Ole Miss!
People at Ole Miss too bougie. They bougie.
-Think they better than us. -Feel they better.
I heard they only practiced one day this week.
When we get out there,
even if you got friends, it ain't no friends.
Like… no.
-Lebby'd say, "Piss on 'em." -What's he saying?
-"Piss on 'em"? -Piss on 'em!
Rebels of Ole Miss, rivals, Mississippi State.
The bad blood goes back generations.
They don't like each other.
It's a car wreck that you just can't turn away from.
Forty minutes before kickoff, a five-minute brawl.
It is hard to describe the level of vitriol in this game.
Yikes. A couple of punches thrown. This could get ugly.
It is a huge rivalry game. There's no way around that.
Jeff Lebby was Ole Miss' offensive coordinator
under Lane Kiffin.
Lebby helped him build that offense.
Now this Ole Miss team is as good as any team in the country.
The bowl loss fumble in the end zone. The greatest game ever.
Probably the worst game ever.
-Awesome. -It was such a bad night.
Got threatened to get beat up on the way out of the stadium.
Ole Miss guy would complain about getting threatened outside the stadium!
Yeah, funny.
My dad's parents were huge Mississippi State fans,
but my mom's side is more Ole Miss,
and that created like a big rivalry between our family.
Me and Sam, he's closest in age with me, we're more Mississippi State.
And then my brothers, Seth and Shane, were more Ole Miss.
They had a chandelier at one of the tailgates.
That's how civil we are. We hang chandeliers
to let you know how much better we are than you.
Mimosas and Bloody Marys and dripping diamonds.
-Yeah. -We're the Harvard of the South.
I can't hear this.
What do y'all got? What does State got? Ring-a-ding-ding-ding-dong?
That is so offensive.
"Ring-a-ding-ding-dong"?
Ring-a-ding-ding-dong.
We've always been going to the Egg Bowl,
since I was probably in fourth or fifth grade.
Remember when we were in the box, and people threw beer on each other?
-There was a huge brawl. We were watching. -We were staring down.
Staring like…
It was like a cartoon circle where the stuff's flying.
-Guys throwing punches, cowbells going. -This was the Egg Bowl?
It's true.
It was kinda my dream growing up to have an Egg Bowl win,
just so I can have that over them for the rest of their lives.
It's all, like, good redneck fun. It's just all good, like, redneck fun.
Hell yeah!
Damn right!
Hotty Toddy, Gosh almighty Who the hell are we?
Hey! Flim flam, bim bam Ole Miss, by damn!
Egg Bowl 2024.
Ole Miss Rebels get ready to meet the Mississippi State Bulldogs today.
Hail State, baby! Let's go!
If you can't get fired up for this game,
you simply don't have a pulse.
If Mississippi State can win this one, all the disappointment,
all the heartbreak gets set aside
because you beat your rival, you end on a good memory,
and you say, "See what we can do?"
Hey, what a damn opportunity!
Do your job!
One play at a time!
And everybody in here fighting your ass off for each other.
And finding a way at the end of the day to go put that damn trophy on our bus.
"Dominate" on three. One, two, three!
Dominate!
Let's go!
We're here now. We don't care about anything.
Screw our season. Like, it was bad, we get that.
And this is our one goal.
We have a team that's top 15, annoying as shit.
If you beat Ole Miss,
it just jump-starts you into the next year.
Let's play an Egg Bowl. Here we go.
Playing against Florida, I fractured my scapula.
But even though I'm not out there on the field, I care about this team.
I care about us winning football games.
Accepting backfield now for Van Buren.
A four-man rush. And he's intercepted!
Ole Miss with an early takeaway!
And the Rebels have early momentum.
Hey, we're good. We're good, we're good.
So they got a pick, first possession of the game.
And taken down in the backfield.
We need to slow them down. We were just fired up.
Oh, thank God.
Thirty-nine-yarder.
When things weren't perfect, we found ways to create the adjustment.
Van Buren fires to the outside, and a little bit wide.
The state will have to punt it away.
On in punt formation
with Micah Davis back to return for the Rebels.
And they fake it!
-They go up the middle for the first down! -Oh shit.
To have some huge plays…
Go get a touchdown right now!
We wanted to be able to find ways to create the momentum
and then keep the momentum.
And room to run for Kevin Coleman, to the pylon!
He's in, and Mississippi State takes the lead on a 34-yard catch and run.
Come on, let's go!
Now here we are. We've got an unbelievable opportunity.
But we need to fight like heck to be able to finish and go win.
He'll take it to the outside.
Pegues batters his way into the end zone.
He carried Hunter Washington with him.
Van Buren looking for him over the middle. Caught again, and it's a first down.
Play action. Van Buren going deep down the sideline.
It is hauled in over the shoulder by Jordan Mosley.
Van Buren keeps it. Cuts outside and dives for the goal line.
He's in!
State's back in front.
This is where we keep the fucking momentum.
Like, this is it, right now.
They keep it on the ground.
And a huge hole for Ulysses Bentley.
Here he goes!
Straight down the middle of the field.
From the doghouse to the end zone. An 89-yard sprint.
Let's go, team!
-Go! -That's what I'm talking about!
Hey! Go get it back right now!
Damn!
No fucking way!
Late in the third and the fourth, they did a really good job
of taking advantage of some things we didn't take care of.
And a muffed punt. Rebels with a chance to recover.
What a huge mistake.
That was the frustrating part of it.
Up the middle. Dart backpedaling.
Lobs. Caught!
And they'll send State to their twelfth consecutive conference loss.
All right, listen to me now. I cannot be more proud.
It didn't happen the way we wanted to.
It's been a hell of a hard year. We all know that.
A ton of frustration. A ton of disappointment.
All right, but for you guys to be standing in this damn locker room
and staying exactly true to who you are,
and fighting your ass off, thank you.
As a program,
we have to continue to hold on to times that we went through this year
and understand what it's gonna take to flip it on its head.
'Cause when it flips, it is gonna flip, and it's gonna feel real damn good
because of what we are going through.
What we just went through.
And have that damn head held real damn high
as you walk out of this thing.
Love you boys. Appreciate you boys.
Stay the course. Do right. Be right.
-"Family" on three! One, two, three! -Family!
You know, losing the Egg Bowl, it just-- it hurts.
But Lebby always said, you know, adversity is gonna come.
And how do you carry yourself?
How do you respond to losses in the game and life?
Shows who you really are as a man.
There's great belief inside our program regardless of the result.
For me, being the head football coach in year one,
that is 100% what it's about.
The best is yet to come.
As I get closer to kickoff,
I'm just focused on knowing my opponent,
the plays, the personnel, injury reports.
I just wanna be that honed in on Texas.
No matter what the rivalry says, or what history says,
if you take anybody lightly or too heavily,
it can alter the reality of them.
I feel like at the end of the day, a lot of people look at logos,
a lot of people look at the external factors going on,
but this is when you get to see who you're really going against.
You just watch the film, it'll tell you everything you need to know.
Film is going to be my edge.
I'm looking for something that can allow me to make a play,
so any tendency that the opposing team can have,
whether it's their feet or their stance, I'm trying to figure it out.
Taurean York's an extremely intelligent young man.
It's been great to watch him be the leader of this defense.
He does a really good job
reading and diagnosing the game of football.
He studies the game of football at a really elite level.
Gotta know who you're playing. They got some swag about them.
They're good, they know what they're capable of.
There's no other way to sugarcoat it. This is a good throw right here.
Rolling left, throw it across his body.
It's a hard throw to make.
I like our opportunity. I like our opportunity to get turnovers.
This is one of those games you can't lose, not at Kyle Field.
We gotta go!
Hold on! Get off! No, no, no, no!
Get off the field. Get off the field.
Take the fucking field with a sense of fucking urgency!
-Let's go, let's go, let's go! -Go, go, go, go!
Get off the field! I'll do it all fucking day, Shemar!
Everybody has talked for years about what this program could be, should be.
-Effort! -Let's go!
Now it's about trying to get it to truly live up to its potential.
That's what this Texas game means.
Hey, here we go. Let's go. Tighten down, let's go!
Listen, football games get defined by what happens in the fourth quarter.
Football seasons and football teams get defined
by what happens down the stretch.
Everybody in the country's tired. It's a long-ass season.
You guys all wanna go pro.
The fucking season's twice as fucking long.
That's football. You chose it.
You've worked your ass off.
Not one of you has been fortunate enough to be in this position before.
Do not start relaxing now.
Do not start letting up now.
Don't misunderstand what's in front of you,
our best football Saturday, three and a half hours.
It's the only thing that we're concerned about.
We didn't come this far to just come this far
just for shits and giggles.
It's not what this program's about. Let's go to work.
-"Grind" on two. One, two. -Grind!
So what we do for Kyle Field, 'cause there's a reverb when you talk,
so we practice with, like… like a special app
that we hear ourselves, like, like five words later,
so we can practice when we hear that reverb when we're practicing at Kyle.
People are always arguing about what the flagship university
of the great state of Texas is.
When you think about the state of Texas,
you think about the Alamo and the men who stood their ground,
like Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie.
And I'll tell you what,
if those men were still alive today, they'd be Fightin' Texas Aggies too.
Friday nights before games,
Yell Leaders gather fans and lead them in the Midnight Yell.
Go get it, boys! Let's go!
Let's go!
Helping fans practice chants.
Hey!
Talking about who they're playing, how they're gonna beat them.
Tomorrow night,
our Fightin' Texas Aggies
take on that godforsaken school in that place in Austin,
otherwise known as TU.
It's definitely odd if you're not used to it,
but it's something that they take as seriously as a heart attack.
After 13 years, the biggest rivalry in college football, it's back.
We're bringing something back that hasn't been done in a really long time.
So, 12th Man,
join me in welcoming your Fightin' Texas Aggie football team,
led by head coach Mike Elko.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't understand the magnitude of it.
Football is clearly ingrained in what Texas A&M culture is
and what it means to this university.
We're gonna go out Saturday and try to figure out how to get it done,
not just for you and this team,
but for everyone who's been in and around Texas A&M,
because that's what this game means.
Howdy!
Tomorrow night,
we're gonna lay it all on the line for you.
Thanks for everything you do. Gig 'em!
The rivalry has been restored,
and tonight, the 119th meeting of the Aggies and the Longhorns,
with a trip to the SEC Championship on the line.
300,000 people outside the stadium
with 110,000 people inside the stadium.
Everybody brings their A game,
'cause we could be in Atlanta next week playing Georgia in the SEC Championship.
Every single one of you decided to be part of this family
for moments like today.
We've been working behind the scenes for eight months,
building, getting stronger, getting more locked in,
doing all the things you need to do to become a winning program for today.
We go out there today, and we kick this door down,
and we announce what Texas A&M football is all about.
It is Arch Manning, the quarterback.
Keeper, left side, first down, stumbles to the goal line.
The back of the end zone, right side.
It is a touchdown.
And Texas has a 17-to-nothing lead on Texas A&M.
Defensively, we have to make plays on the football in the air.
You gotta give us a chance to make plays. We gotta make big plays on the outside.
Saw Varsity's horns off! Short!
Varsity's horns are sawed off…
17-nothing here in the third quarter,
in motion right to left goes Moore.
Ewers' in the pocket. Deflected, intercepted!
And a lot of room down the left sideline!
All the way into the end zone!
Touchdown, Aggies!
We were able to play really good defense in the second half.
We fought and battled
and gave ourselves opportunities down the stretch.
From the ten, Ewers keep.
Ewers slides to the eight, and it's loose!
And it's loose, and the Aggies come up with it!
They have it! Taurean York!
The play I recovered a fumble was a big play in the game
'cause it gave the ball back to our offense.
The crowd was electric,
because I felt like it gave us new life and an opportunity to go score points.
Marcel drops back, fires, complete.
Tre Watson, middle of the field.
He's at the ten, he's at the five. He's got the first down!
Texas A&M, 16-yard gain. It's first and goal.
Gig 'em, Aggies! Whoo!
Let's go, Aggies!
Daniels right of Reed, Noah Thomas the lone receiver.
It's Amari Daniels pushing the pile.
Amari Daniels just shy of the goal line.
…on the clock, Amari Daniels…
-Third and goal. -Might be at the one.
Amari.
No signal yet, pile still moves.
Signaled short.
Inside the one.
Fourth and goal from the one, down 17-seven.
If we wanna be the team that we need to be,
we have to be able to convert fourth-and-ones.
Knowing we're on the half-yard line and we have to score a touchdown,
that was probably gonna be our best chance to do so,
and then… so we decided to go for it.
Amari Daniels is stopped at the three-yard line.
And that's the story of the game.
Short yardage.
Unsuccessful.
Chin up, chin up.
Monday will be about what comes next.
Tonight, we didn't get all the way there.
You guys came together 12 months ago, changed the direction of this program.
You've put this thing in a direction
that we are going to be exactly where we wanna be
this time next year.
I'm sorry we couldn't get it done tonight, okay?
So one more time, bring it in, men. I love you guys.
-"Grind" on two! One, two! -Grind!
Who said that?
You did so good.
-Sacked both quarterbacks. -Literally.
I mean, not just one, you took two of them down.
Yeah, it hurts though, but we'll be all right.
I just feel that we have all these big-time matchups,
and it's long overdue that we show up, and we show out in that environment.
One, two, three. Love it.
I feel like we let Kyle Field down.
-We'll get it done. We're working for it. -I know.
But the future for Texas A&M is gonna go above and beyond,
because I know how we're wired, where we came from,
and we're gonna continue to compete with each other every day,
so we can rise and rise and continue to get better every day.
Put us in a playoff!
Tennessee's in the mix for one of those last playoff spots.
This is a team that can compete for the national title.
We'll go dominate their ass. You guys understand what I'm saying?
-Yes, sir. -All right.
But going into the final week of the season,
Vandy would love to keep Tennessee out of the playoff.
-Go hit a motherfucker in the mouth. -Yes, sir.
We're gonna win this game at all costs.
South Carolina's been on a tear.
The Gamecocks are one of the scariest teams in the country now.
We are one of the 12 best teams.
We're gonna finish this season the right way.
We still got a chance to win the national championship.
Everything we want is right in our hands.
Just win.
Just win, baby. nt is right in our hands.