College Football Playoff campus was scene of devastating fire which killed 12 after tradition went wrong

Postseason football is finally coming to Texas A&M. The No. 7 ranked Aggies have made the College Football Playoff (CFP) field for the first time in 2025. Boasting a regular season record of ...
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20th anniversary of the Aggie bonfire tragedy

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KTRK) -- The tradition of the Texas A&M bonfire burned for more than 90 years but that all changed on Nov. 18, 1999, when the bonfire structure collapsed, killing 11 students, ...
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We The People: This Day in History, November 18

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KWTX) - On November 18, 1999, a bonfire at Texas A&M University collapsed, killing 12 and injuring nearly 30 people. The bonfire is a tradition at Texas A&M before the school’s ...
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Bonfire suspended until 2002

In hopes of making Bonfire “forever safe,” Texas A&M University President Ray Bowen on Friday ruled on its fate: hire certified engineers to create a safe design, pay a company to cut and haul the ...