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Texas trolls Mike Elko over 'flagship' comments following win vs. Texas A&M

by: Alex Byington10 hours ago_AlexByington

Texas‘ Darrell K. Royal Stadium‘s scoreboard team poured a little salt in the wound after Friday night’s 27-17 rivalry win over No. 3 Texas A&M with a postgame video that used Aggies head coach Mike Elko‘s words against him.

Following the upset win in the second revival of the Lone Star Showdown, the 15th-ranked Longhorns’ home video board played a clip of Elko declaring Texas A&M the “flagship” program in the state of Texas not long after he was hired in early 2024. The clip was immediately followed by a viral “sike” meme video and clips of several Longhorns players — including superstar quarterback Arch Manning — celebrating.

Check out the video below:

Steve Sarkisian: Leaving Texas out of College Football Playoff would be ‘a disservice to our sport’

After the game, Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian explained why he believes Texas deserves a spot in the College Football Playoff.

“That team is undefeated, No. 3 three in the country. A lot of the pundits out there think they’re the No. 1 team in the country. We just beat them by 10,” Sarkisian said. “If you really look at the body of work, and you look at the Southeastern Conference of what we have to go through every week, you look at the non-conference schedule we played, to go to Ohio State in Week 1 and lose by seven when we outgained them by nearly 200 yards—we got a really good football team.

“It would be a disservice to our sport if this team is not a playoff team when we went and scheduled that non-conference game. Because if we’re a 10-2 team, it’s not a question. But, we were willing to go play that game. So, is that what college football is about? Don’t play anybody and just have a good record, or play the best and put the best teams in the playoff. And, we’re one of the best teams.”

In the win over Texas A&M, the Longhorns racked up 397 yards of offense, compared to the Aggies’ 337. Texas’ defense squeezed two turnovers out of Texas A&M, while the Aggies defense had no answers for Texas running back Tre Wisner, who exploded for 155 rushing yards on just 19 carries.

With the win, Texas (9-3, 6-2 SEC) now has three victories against teams that were ranked in the Top 10 at the time of their meeting (Oklahoma, Vanderbilt and Texas A&M). Meanwhile, the Aggies (11-1, 7-1 SEC) must wait out Saturday’s Iron Bowl and hope for an Auburn upset over No. 10 Alabama inside Jordan-Hare Stadium to see if the Aggies will back into a spot in next week’s SEC Championship game.

— On3’s Grant Grubbs contributed to this report.