November 28, 2025

Dear Friends and Family,

Do you know why the Aggies are a better team than the Longhorns? Because we don’t need to win to love our school. We’re used to losing, and we love our school anyway. We’ve got more school spirit than anybody because it’s not based on winning. It’s based on being a good fan. And not a t-shirt fan, not a 2-percenter, but a die-hard, red-ass, maroon-bleeding Texas A&M 12th Man.

Maybe we’ll go ahead and win the national championship for the first time since the year I was born, in 1987 at the Cotton Bowl. But honestly, we don’t have to win to prove that we’re good enough—because we already are good enough. We won 11 games, and we haven’t won 12 yet, but we’ve only lost one, so that’s pretty dang good. And that might be good enough to win the national championship. But honestly, we don’t need to win a national championship.

Johnny Manziel didn’t win a national championship in 2012, but he did win the Heisman, and he did build a stadium. And that stadium drove more students to go to Texas A&M, and more students to learn and get educated at a good, practical university. Because of that, we all benefited.

Football is not just about winning championships or games. It’s about representing a good school—and that’s what Texas A&M is: a good school. The Longhorns may have a good football team, and they may have a good school too, but at the end of the day, they’re too worried about winning. And it’s not about winning. It’s about educating young people. And the Aggie Network will always win because the Aggie family doesn’t leave each other behind just because we lose a football game.

We wear a ring until the day we die, and we know—win or lose—what team we’re on. We don’t even need a t-shirt because we have an Aggie ring, and that says, “I’m a proud Aggie,” and the Aggie Network is strong. And that’s why we need an Aggie president, and I’m sure hoping it’s a woman.

The Longhorns may have won the game, but let’s see who’s going to win the national championship. They just said it on TV—the commentator said, “You just beat the number one team in the nation,” and the Longhorns’ coach didn’t like that very much. But the truth is, by winning this game, they saved their season. Now they might have a chance at the playoffs. By losing this game, nothing happened to the Aggies. We’re just going to take a break from the SEC championship and go ahead and win the whole thing. Watch us.

A&M has always been the big brother. The University of Texas at Austin has always believed they’re the big brother, but honestly, they never could be—because we’re the older brother. Texas A&M University is the oldest state school, and next year marks 150 years since A&M was founded in 1876.

So while we let our little brother scream and shout all they want, at the end of the day, we love them. We even branded their cow “13-10,” and they loved it so much they named the cow Bevo, and that’s now their mascot.

They say we’re obsessed with them because we talk about them in our fight song—but we only talk about them because we are obsessed with them. Because we love them. Because they are our little brother.

They started getting too big for their britches in the Big 12, trying to bully everybody around. So in 2012, the 12th Man left the Big 12. And it took twelve years before little brother looked over and said, “You know what? Big brother’s doing pretty good over there in the SEC.”

And suddenly they realized: “We don’t need our own channel anymore—that just makes it unfair and makes all our friends stop wanting to play us.” And that’s exactly what happened. Everyone left the Big 12 until little brother—aka the University of Texas—had nobody good to play with anymore.

So what did they do after twelve years?

They left the Big 12 too.

Now they’re in the SEC.

Now they’re in the big league.

Let’s see if they can play with big brother.

Gig ’em, Aggies.

Love, Meghan