But Saturday night's Lone Star Showdown at Kyle Field in College Station was the most expensive regular season football game on record. According to StubHub, the average ticket price was $1,100.

"It's just two giants colliding," Longhorn fan Landon Donovan said. There were loud cheers throughout the night at the bars, but maybe none bigger and louder than when the game kicked off, signaling the official return of the rivalry. Texas topped Texas A&M 17-7 to punch a ticket to play in the SEC title game against Georgia next week.

In the first Lone Star Showdown in over a decade, the Texas A&M Aggies struggled to really muster much of anything throughout the contest, resulting in their se