COLLEGE STATION, Tx. — Standing along the back end zone as the Missouri Tigers attempted offense at Kyle Field, Texas A&M Aggies yell leader Kyler Fife kept it simple.

“Oh hell yeah,” he said when asked if the crowd at Texas A&M took Missouri’s challenge personally. “Oh hell yeah. I thought we weren’t loud enough!”

His arms outstretched for the latter statement, it was clear that Fife was among the crowd who did take it personally. And the aforementioned challenge?

Kyle Field was not as loud as the Tigers’ practice sessions.

“At some point it can only get so loud,” Missouri quarterback Brady Cook said during the week. “In my opinion, the noise at practice is actually louder. They put these big speakers pretty much two feet right behind me. You can’t hear anything.”

Evidently, The 12th Man made sure such was the case for Cook and company throughout the contest. By the end of the game, the Tigers were forced into a delay of game penalty, two false starts — back to back, no less — and a snap that came too early on a fourth-and-long they certainly needed.

Interestingly enough, the fans didn’t need much help getting pumped up, but they got some anyway. On a critical possession that would have given Missouri some momentum to chip away at the early 17-point lead the Aggies crafted, all it took for the student section to make a difference was a Sheck Wes song.

“Mo Bamba” rang through the speakers three times in a row on three straight plays. And the result was exactly what Texas A&M hoped for. Another failed offensive possession.

“It was kind of like playing the NCAA game,” Aggies edge rusher Nic Scourton said. “Going out there, having fun. Kyle Field’s rocking. We got them backed up. It’s something you dream of as a kid. Like, it’s crazy. It’s just this place is so special to play.”

With how special it’s seen, it made sense that the Maroon & White didn’t take kindly to any outsiders talking down on it, as Scourton explained. Especially not the noise factor.

“It has been interesting that we’ve had people call out Kyle Field a little bit,” Aggies coach Mike Elko said on The Aggie Football Hour. “I heard their quarterback say today that it’s louder in practice than it is at Kyle Field. To me, that’s a challenge to the 12th Man.”

“They kind of lit a fire on us,” Aggies edge rusher Nic Scourton added. “Coming into our place … talking down on Kyle Field. I think guys were really motivated to go out there and be dominant.”

That’s what happened. Texas A&M out-gained Missouri through the air, on the ground, in time of possession and everything else in-between. In the books, the win goes down as a complete domination. To the fans, it was a lesson taught to the Tigers.

And to the players? It was a personal statement.

One they felt good about making.

“What I took personally (was) them saying that their practice would be louder than our stadium,” Aggies leading rusher Le’Veon Moss said. “I took that personal because our 12th Man supports us to the end, no matter what happens.”

A Texas High School football team is facing criticism after not only putting a beating on their opponents 77-0, but also taking belts and whipping some of the opposing team’s players afterward in the handshake line.

Players at the Houston-based Willis High School were seen on a video posted on Facebook taking large belts and swinging them at members of the Cleveland High School team during the customary postgame sportsmanship handshake. At one point, one of the Cleveland players jumps out of the way in order to avoid getting whipped while Willis’s players laugh at their opponent.

WINNING FOOTBALL TEAM TOOK BELTS AND SPANKED / WHIPPED OPPONENTS

Yikes. 

If being shut out by 70+ points wasn’t humiliating enough, imagine having your opponents then haze you in front of your teammates, family and school? Not a laughing matter, according to some of the Cleveland player’s parents.

“That’s just shady and there’s no point in doing that. It’s just very childish for them to do that,” Melanie Gonzales told KRHO TV.

“I just don’t get it. I don’t, and I’d be very pissed off if I’m scrolling on my phone, and I see my son getting hit with the belt,” Mary Almaguer also told the outlet as she said that the whole situation was ridiculous. In a statement, Willis High School said that the players involved in the whipping would be suspended for the first half of their next game, partake in community service and receive other disciplinary measures. 

For Almaguer, that’s not enough.

PARENTS ARE CALLING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO FILE A COMPLAINT

“I think more than just half of a game suspension, maybe the rest of the season, some counseling,” the player’s mom said. Meanwhile, Cleveland High School released their own statement saying that Willis’s actions were uncalled for and they have contacted the proper district and league officials to file an official complaint.

How times have changed! Back when I was playing sports, the biggest thing we had to worry about was if someone spit on their hand before we all lined up. But to have to maneuver your way around the line so that you don’t get whipped and spanked is absurd.

Also, where were the coaches of either team while all of this was going on? How does nobody step up in that situation ?

Unfortunately, the whipping doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon as more Gen Zers are partaking in the trend for some unknown reason. 

The 9th-ranked Missouri Tigers are road underdogs for a Saturday matchup with the No. 25 Texas A&M Aggies. The game is scheduled to start at noon ET with TV coverage on ABC and streaming on-demand.

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#9 Missouri Tigers (4-0) at #25 Texas A&M Aggies (4-1)

NCAA football matchup at a glance

When: Saturday, Oct. 5 at noon ET (11 a.m. CT)

Where: Kyle Field, College Station, Texas

TV channel: ABC and ESPN+

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Texas A&M has won four straight games since falling to Notre Dame, 23-13, in its season opener, grinding through the most recent three over Arkansas (21-17), Bowling Green (26-20) and Florida (33-20). The Aggies are finding success on the ground with the nation’s No. 13 rushing attack (231.6 ypg), led by junior running back Le’Veon Moss’ 471 yards and three touchdowns.

Missouri needed overtime to take down Vanderbilt, 30-27, on its home field last weekend, but struggle or not, the Tigers still managed to improve to 4-0 while starting Southeast Conference play with a win. Missouri calls defense a strength, ranking among the top 10 teams in the country in total (219.0 ypg), passing (127.3 ypg) and scoring defense (12.0 ppg).

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The Aggies and Tigers are set for a noon ET start on ABC and ESPN+. Live streams are available from FuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and SlingTV (low intro rate).