Texas A&M fans, just like college football fans everywhere, are extremely ready for the season to actually begin. With just over a month now before toe meets leather in Kyle Field as the Aggies are set to take on UTSA, we're thankfully entering the final stretch of the offseason.
In what is maybe the premier game of week one, though, Ohio State will be welcoming in A&M's rival Texas to the Horseshoe for a huge game— a rematch of last year's playoff semifinal. There's no doubt that this game is highly anticipated, despite being at noon, and it will catch a lot of eyes right off the bat of the 2025 season.
There's not much hype you need to manufacture about two big time teams playing to kick off the season, of course, but that hasn't stopped some from needlessly doing so. One attempted flex is pretty ironic, given the context of last season.
Texas fans trying to flex ticket prices for Ohio State showdown apparently have amnesia about Lone Star Showdown
This graphic was tweeted out a couple of days ago, but Aggie fans have just now begun to notice it:
That’s what happens when two of the biggest brands in college football go head to head 🤘 pic.twitter.com/Qt4glbd3r3
— OnTexasFootball (@ontexasfootball) July 24, 2025
This is an attempted brag about the fact that the cheapest ticket to get into the Horseshoe, a stadium of comparable size to Kyle Field, is $400. That would maybe be striking to some, but we need to think back a little bit.
In early September of last year, the cheapest tickets for Texas A&M's showdown with Texas were already more expensive than this. By the time the game rolled around, the get-in price was historically high, at $741 according to TickPick.
What's more, as one commenter pointed out, the Aggies' game against Notre Dame currently has a get-in price of $480. That makes both years apparently more expensive than this game— as well as this year's edition of the Lone Star Showdown.
That puts Texas fans in who heartily agreed with this tweet in an awkward position: are the Aggies a bigger brand than Ohio State? It's just kind of a strange flex to put out there with such recent history challenging that premise.
All you need to do is venture to the comment section to see Aggies and other fans pointing these realities out, but as you'd expect, Texas fans have no response.