{"id":296790,"date":"2026-05-17T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:25:10","slug":"texas-am-claims-first-title-in-rebooted-lone-star-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296790\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M claims first title in rebooted Lone Star Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(KBTX) &#8211; Twelve times this season, a Texas A&amp;M athletic program raised a Texas-shaped trophy after knocking off the Texas Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It was more than enough for the Aggies to claim the Lone Star Showdown title for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A&amp;M downed the Longhorns 11.5-7.5 in the season-long contest between the athletic departments, claiming the title for the first time since it was renewed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Saturday, the men\u2019s and women\u2019s track and field teams recorded higher team finishes at the SEC Championship, ensuring the Aggies\u2019 win. The men\u2019s squad finished fourth, ahead of Texas\u2019 seventh-place finish. The women finished tied for sixth, three spots ahead of the Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Every single matchup between the programs is worth one point. For men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball, which play Texas twice during the regular season, each game is worth a half point. A series win in baseball is worth a point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A&amp;M soccer, volleyball, men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country, women\u2019s tennis, men\u2019s and women\u2019s indoor track and baseball all claimed wins over Texas. A&amp;M men\u2019s basketball earned a half point this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas claimed last year\u2019s title 12.5-5.5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rivalry debuted in 2004 and ran through 2012 when A&amp;M left the Big 12 for the SEC. It was renewed due to Texas\u2019 entrance into the SEC. The Longhorns have claimed seven titles in that span to A&amp;M\u2019s three.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KBTX) &#8211; Twelve times this season, a Texas A&amp;M athletic program raised a Texas-shaped trophy after knocking off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33514,27,3042,29,28],"class_list":["post-296790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-lone-star-showdown","tag-texas","tag-texas-am","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}