Agree re" the bold, because of the obvious shit you have to endure for a year after losing to those morons. Hell, it's bad enough when we beat 'em. They always act like they won, even after we humiliate their asses. It's just bizarre.
And yeah there's nothing like Texas - ou, and as you noted, our aggy friends have a hard time getting their heads around that. Back in the early 90s, an aggy friend of a friend of mine refused to believe that we considered ou sucks a bigger rival than aggy. He had been an aggy pitcher. His nickname on the baseball team was "Pine Tree", because of the long HRs he'd give up, that would end up in the pine trees out beyond their outfield fences at the time. Since he didn't believe our descriptions of the Texas - ou game intensity, we decided to take him to Dallas that year for the game. He was properly blown away, and after that admitted he'd never seen anything like it. He was left extremely envious by that experience, wishing they could have a similar neutral site game. I always thought a perfect fit for a similar matchup would be aggy vs LSU, in Houston, but I'm really glad they don't do it. Fuck aggy.