Missouri gets Texas A&M again on Saturday morning, and for a matchup between conference mates with three decades of history, this one still feels oddly intermittent. The teams have met only 18 times overall, with 14 of those coming as conference games, and this will be the third straight season they’ve lined up against each other.
The early part of the series belonged to Texas A&M. The Aggies won the first six meetings, including the four-game stretch in the late 1950s and the pair of games in 1998 and 1999 after the Big 12 ramped up in 1996. Missouri eventually flipped the script, though, and since those first six losses the Tigers have taken seven of the last 12.
A few of those games still stand out. Missouri beat Texas A&M in 2002 and 2003, dropped one in 2006, then won again in 2007.
The Tigers also went into College Station and won 30-9 in 2010, on the day the writer of the source was married. And the game that probably sticks most in Missouri memory came in 2013, when Henry Josey broke free against the Aggie defense to seal the SEC East title for the Tigers.
Texas A&M and Missouri met again the next season, and Missouri won that one too. But the recent run has tilted hard toward the Aggies. Texas A&M won 41-10 two years ago and 38-17 last year.
Coming into this season, the expectation around the game was that Missouri would probably be taking an L. That changed as Texas A&M lost some of its shine, and now the Tigers are home favorites. The Aggies still bring plenty of talent, though, and the blunt message here is simple: just win, baby.
Saturday’s game is set for 11:00 AM CT from Missouri and will air on ABC, with streaming available on ESPN.com/Watch. Missouri Football is listed on Twitter at @MizzouFootball and on Facebook as MizzouFootballShowMe.
As of last evening, Missouri was a 3.5-point favorite at FanDuel, with the over-under sitting at 48.5.
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