Jerrod Johnson News

Texas has taken control of its annual series with Oklahoma, gone 15-3 against ranked opponents since 2005 and won its last five bowl games.

The more Hurricane Katrina zeroed in on his hometown in late August four years ago, the wider Lionel Smith's eyes grew in a Houston hotel room.

Texas A&M reached bowl eligibility with offensive balance. To upset No. 3 Texas and give the ESPN audience a perfect antidote to tryptophan overload Thanksgiving night, the Aggies' best hope lies with quarterback Jerrod Johnson.

Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson can't remember a time in his life without football or the Aggies.

Having become bowl eligible, the Texas Aggies will play the role of spoiler Thursday night as they look to snap Texas' 11 game winning streak.

When Texas A&M freshman running back Christine Michael took a handoff from Jerrod Johnson at his own 3-yard line early in the second quarter, he didn't stop running until he reached the record books.

Texas A&M freshman Christine Michael scored on a 97-yard run for the longest play from scrimmage in school history and the Aggies secured bowl eligibility with a 38-3 win over Baylor on Saturday.

Freshman quarterback Nick Florence experienced the thrill of silencing a big crowd when Baylor upset Missouri two weeks ago in Columbia.

The Baylor-Texas A&M game won't have any impact on the Big 12 race and is way under the radar on the national picture.

Many happy returns? For Aggies, hardly A priority at Texas A&M practices this week will be repairing the punt- and kick-return woes that bedeviled the Aggies in Saturday's 65-10 loss at Oklahoma.

With campuses sitting only 80 miles apart, Baylor would be motivated to play century-old rival Texas A&M in anything - rugby, pingpong, bowling.

Prior to this season, Texas A&M's defenders vowed their oft-maligned unit had improved thanks to locker-room camaraderie, a simplified scheme and another offseason in the system.

A road game, on TV, with the white uniforms, and oh-by-the-way, the opponent was Oklahoma.

A week after throwing five interceptions, Landry Jones passed for a career-high 392 yards and five touchdowns - two to DeMarco Murray - as Oklahoma became bowl-eligible with a 65-10 rout of Texas A&M on Saturday night.

As Mike Leach stands one win away from becoming the winningest coach in Texas Tech history, he still finds motivational tools in the most unlikely of places.

Bit by bit, Oklahoma's grand dreams have been nibbled away by the tiniest details.

It's not that Texas A&M's football players didn't enjoy being home for the holidays last year.

Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing has thrown one touchdown and three interceptions in his past two games.

I was all for Texas A&M getting good again because I like Bill Byrne and Mike Sherman and because it makes life more interesting around here when the Aggies are rolling.

Tyler Hansen overcame his second-straight eight-sack day to lead Colorado to a 35-34 win over the Texas A&M Aggies on Saturday.