Mike Elko Thanks Texas A&M Fans for Producing 'Very Maroon Crowd' at Notre Dame

‘It’s a tribute to the A&M fans and community’: Maroon meets gold in South Bend

They came in maroon. They came in boots. They came in droves. On a campus glistening with gilded gables and ringing with the bells of the Basilica, the 12th Man twirled its towels and filled the South Bend, Indiana streets with cheerful “Howdys.” A year after Notre Dame fans descended on College Station for the first game in a home-and-home series, thousands of Texas A&M fans made the pilgrimage to a football holy site. Some used the opportunity…

Mike Elko thanks Texas A&M fans for producing 'very maroon crowd' at Notre Dame

Texas A&M fans made their presence felt in South Bend last Saturday, and head coach Mike Elko didn’t miss it. “Thank you to everyone you went to South Bend,” Elko said at the Houston Touchdown Club. “It was a very maroon crowd. I’ve never played a game at Kyle Field where the visiting fans take up as much room as our fans did there. The coolest thing was hearing the eruption on the touchdown.” The Aggies’ 41-40 win over then-No. 8 Notre Dame was…