Battle of the Brazos The Battle of the Brazos was the official collegiate sports rivalry between the Baylor Bears and Texas A & M Aggies . The rivalry is named for the Brazos River that flows by the two schools , which are only 90 miles apart . The Battle of the Brazos debuted in 1899 . History . In the early days of the rivalry ( 1905 and earlier ) , Baylor and Texas A & M played each other multiple times in a single year , possibly due to a dearth of regional opponents . In the early days of the rivalry , Texas A & M was an all - male college , and Baylor was the closest college that had female students . Many Baylor coeds chose to date Aggies causing some resentment among the male students at Baylor , who did not have a corresponding pool of young women from Texas A & M to date . Legendary Baylor Coach Grant Teaff , when asked about the origin of the rivalry stated that , “ There was a great deal of resentment from Baylor boys on campus because they weren ’ t any girls at A & M . The Aggies would come here and grab the Baylor beauties . That has something to do with the feud . ” The Brawl . The 1926 football game coincided with Baylor ' s homecoming . During halftime Baylor Homecoming floats paraded around the field . When a float - actually a car pulling a flatbed trailer with several female Baylor students - neared the section where the Texas A & M Corps of Cadets sat , a cadet raced towards the car to try to steer it away . The motion caused Louise Normand to fall off the truck , injuring her and inciting a large riot . Students began using metal folding chairs and planks of wood that had been used as yard markers for weapons . Texas A & M student Lt . Charles Sessums was hit over the head with a chair in the melee and , although he initially appeared to recover , he died following the game . On December 8 , 1926 , the two school presidents agreed to temporarily suspend athletic relations between the schools . The schools would not compete against each other in any athletic event for the next four years . Baylor and Texas A & M would not meet in football again until 1931 . Pranks . In 1936 Baylor students awoke to find Texas A & M signs plastered across campus , with red paint applied to turn the Baylor flagpole into a barber pole . A huge sign on Waco Hall predicted , " A and M 50 , Baylor 0 . " In 1950 , Aggies snuck into the new Baylor Stadium , then under construction , to plant oats in the gridiron grass in order to have the sprouting plants spell out the letters “ A and M . ” It was once great sport before a big football matchup for Aggie students to drive to Waco with nefarious intentions of capturing Baylor ' s bear mascot . Baylor students sometimes resorted to extraordinary defensive measures . In 1946 they placed mascot Chita in the custody of Waco Police so the Aggies could not find her . In the 1950s , two Aggie students drove to Waco and stole the Baylor mascot , a young bear cub , from the Baylor campus . While they were driving back to College Station in a brand – new car belonging to one of their families , the bear became terrified . Twenty – miles from Waco , the bear ripped out the inside of the car , and the boys set it free . The young men were caught when they took the car to be repaired . In 1954 , Baylor mascot Nip and her trailer disappeared . Yet , the next day both the bear and trailer were found under a bridge on the highway to College Station . Baylor students likewise pranked the Aggies , often sneaking onto the Texas A & M campus to spray green paint on the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross . Ross was the third president of Texas A & M , who briefly attended Baylor as a preparatory student before transferring to and obtaining a graduate degree from the Wesleyan University in Florence , Alabama . Former U . S . House Majority Leader Tom DeLay , whose daughter later graduated from Texas A & M , was expelled from Baylor after he was in part found painting one of A & M ' s buildings green . Football . The competitive peak of the series between Baylor and Texas A & M most likely occurred between 1960 and 1990 during which time Baylor won 13 games , A & M won 16 games , and two games ended in ties . During that same time period 18 of the 31 games played saw the final margin of victory to be 7 points or less . " Texas Football " magazine voted the 1986 game between the schools the Game of the Decade of the 80s in the Southwest Conference . Baylor led the game 17 – 0 in the 1st half and was positioned to score again when the Texas A & M defense was able to stop the Bears with a goal line stand . The Aggies came back in the final minutes with an 80 yard drive resulting in a touchdown and a 31 – 30 victory . The victory allowed the Aggies to claim the SWC Championship and advance to the Cotton Bowl for a second straight year . while Baylor finished in 2nd and ended the year with a victory over Colorado in the Bluebonnet Bowl . Another exciting game was the 1978 contest in which little - known Baylor freshman Walter Abercrombie rushed for 207 yards in a 24 – 6 Baylor win in College Station . The 207 yards were a then NCAA record for rushing yardage in an initial game . In the 1980 contest Baylor won by the blowout score of 46 – 7 , going on that year to win the SWC Championship by a record 3 games and garnering a berth in the Cotton Bowl , where they were thrashed by Alabama , 30 - 2 . The thrilling 1986 A & M win began a period of domination in the series , in which Baylor did not beat A & M for 18 seasons ( 17 losses and a tie in 1990 ) . The most lopsided match in the history of the rivalry occurred in 2003 when the Aggies routed the Bears by a score of 73 - 10 . In that match , A & M had totaled over 700 yards in offense while holding Baylor to just 32 yards rushing . The loss was Baylor ' s 30th straight conference road loss . However , in 2004 an underdog Baylor Bear team defeated the No . 16 ranked Aggies 35 – 34 in overtime at Floyd Casey Stadium when the Bears converted a dramatic 2 point conversion on the final play of the game to earn their first win over the Aggies since 1985 . The rivalry again became bitter in 2005 when the Aggies completed two fourth down conversions to win at home 16 – 13 in overtime . The Baylor Bears defeated the Aggies for only the second time in 22 years in 2008 . Baylor has not won at Kyle Field since 1984 ( 13 games ) but has won 2 of the last 4 series games in Waco . The series future will be in doubt starting in 2012 , when Texas A & M joins the Southeastern Conference . In 2011 , A & M won the probable final series meeting 55 - 28 at Kyle Field . Texas A & M currently leads the football series with Baylor 68 – 31 – 9 . Basketball . In men ' s basketball , Baylor and A & M have competed since the 1914 – 15 debut season of the Southwest Conference . With 211 games played , A & M leads the series with a 136 wins , 71 losses and 4 ties . Since the formation of the Big 12 , the teams have followed parallel paths . Both spent the early years of the conference as lower - division teams ( they combined for one NIT appearance and zero NCAA appearances from 1996 to 2004 , and both suffered winless conference seasons during that span ) . However , in more recent years , they have grown into Big 12 contenders , with A & M reaching the NCAA ' s six straight years between 2006 and 2011 and Baylor reaching both in 2008 and 2010 , with elite eight appearance in both years . In 2011 , Baylor did not reach postseason play but swept the series with the NCAA Tourney - Bound Aggies .