The Texas–Texas A&M football game is back this week, after a thirteen-year hiatus. Texas Monthly, which has long covered the rivalry, rejoices in its return with a full collection of stories about the game’s history, off-the-field antics, major players, and more. Read everything here. What does it take to put on the Lone Star State’s most historic college football rivalry? Start with more than 100,000 Texas A&M and Texas spectators, dozens of shuttle buses, and a literal ton of beef parading around the field in the form of Bevo (to say nothing of the many more tons of beef that will land on the grills of tailgating fans that day). And that’s just the beginning. Texas Monthly dug deep into the numbers behind the Texas–Texas A&M football rivalry,…
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