{"id":297351,"date":"2026-05-17T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297351\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:57:07","slug":"texas-am-takes-home-the-2025-2026-lone-star-showdown-over-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297351\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M takes home the 2025-2026 Lone Star Showdown over Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lone Star Showdown trophy will stay in College Station for the remainder of the 2025-2026 athletic calendar year after <a href=\"http:\/\/aggieswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas A&amp;M&#039;s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas A&amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s<\/a> Track &amp; Field teams finished higher in the rankings, finishing with a four-point lead (11.5 to 7.5) over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\/texas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas Longhorns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas Longhorns&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Texas Longhorns<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>While the Longhorn fanbase felt very confident that the trophy would stay in Austin (TX) for the foreseeable future, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\/texas-am\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas A&amp;M;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas A&amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Texas A&amp;M<\/a> Women&#8217;s Volleyball team&#8217;s National Title, winning one of the matchups in men&#8217;s basketball, and head-to-head victories in soccer, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, sealed the deal heading into the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Texas is currently 2-0 vs. Texas A&amp;M on the football field, but with the game returning to Kyle Field in 2026, the Aggies have a shot to finally defeat the Longhorns for the first time in more than a decade. Still, the Texas A&amp;M Track &amp; Field teams deserve a bulk of the credit after the men&#8217;s team finished fourth, and the women&#8217;s team finished sixth in the Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>After taking home the trophy last season, Texas A&amp;M and <a href=\"http:\/\/longhornswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Texas<\/a> have now split the Lone Star Showdown title, which further proves that both athletic departments continue to lead the Lone Star State in nearly every collegiate sport. Texas A&amp;M will look to take the lead next season.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aggieswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@AggiesWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@AggiesWire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@AggiesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X\u00a0(formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AggiesWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Texas A&amp;M news, notes and opinions.\u00a0Follow Cameron on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CameronOhnysty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@CameronOhnysty;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@CameronOhnysty&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@CameronOhnysty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Aggies Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/aggieswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/aggies\/2026\/05\/17\/texas-aggies-athletic-texas-2025-2026-lone-star-showdown\/90132300007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas A&amp;M wins 2025-2026 Lone Star Showdown trophy over Texas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas A&amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Texas A&amp;M wins 2025-2026 Lone Star Showdown trophy over Texas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lone Star Showdown trophy will stay in College Station for the remainder of the 2025-2026 athletic calendar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33514,27,3042,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-297351","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-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297351","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=297351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}