Like they say in Latin, video est credeo. I was at the Houston Texans parking lot tailgate party a few weeks ago and they had a truck with a big screen TV showing the Texas A&M at South Carolina game. Like everyone else there, I though Texas A&M was gonna get smoted by the nasty Gamecock defense and hostile South Carolina home crowd. What..with the departure of the great Johnny Manziel, how could Texas A&M ever measure up? It didn’t take long to find out that, not only did this team not miss a beat, they are even better than they were last year. Maybe with the exception of Oregon, Texas A&M has the most powerful offense in the country. They can move the ball in big chunks in a number of different ways and their freshman quarterback is simply terrific. South Carolina couldn’t stop them. Didn’t even come close as Texas A&M won the game 52-28. Mind you, this is a South Carolina team which went ahead and defeated both East Carolina and Georgia.
Texas A&M easily beat one of the top teams in the country. What’s even better, in their most recent game, Texas A&M slaughtered Rice 38-10. (Rice is a better team than SMU.) Now we come to the part that’s true. "Guys weren't very happy with how they played tonight," coach Kevin Sumlin said. "In the locker room our guys were ho hum and pretty hard on themselves ... and that's good." "We started off slow," QB Hill said. "We never want to start it off slow. We are going to work on that and fix that and be better next week." What really happened was that Rice was able to keep the ball away from Texas A&M and also their field was in tatters. Neither of this is going to happen this week. Translate this into Texas A&M intends to score about 80 points against SMU.
What’s SMU going to do about it? Nothing, that’s what. SMU is a horror show. They are 0-2 this season and have scored 6 points while giving up 88. They lost to North Texas by the score of 43-6. Their coach quit. Here is the most compelling fact. So far in two games, SMU has a total of -14 yards rushing. What that means is they won’t be able to keep the ball away from the Texas A&M offense. What does Texas A&M do when they have the ball? They score, that’s what they do.
Texas A&M needs to impress the human committee which is pondering whether or not they should invite 2 SEC teams to the playoffs. Games like this count, especially when you go on the road and win big. Even if Texas A&M feels sorry for SMU, they won’t help them score points. They can’t score points. If SMU somehow manages to get 10 points, all Texas A&M needs to do is score 42 points to cover. They scored 52 against South Carolina. End of story.
Lay the wood and laugh to the bank. Aggies for $800
Like they say in Latin, video est credeo. I was at the Houston Texans parking lot tailgate party a few weeks ago and they had a truck with a big screen TV showing the Texas A&M at South Carolina game. Like everyone else there, I though Texas A&M was gonna get smoted by the nasty Gamecock defense and hostile South Carolina home crowd. What..with the departure of the great Johnny Manziel, how could Texas A&M ever measure up? It didn’t take long to find out that, not only did this team not miss a beat, they are even better than they were last year. Maybe with the exception of Oregon, Texas A&M has the most powerful offense in the country. They can move the ball in big chunks in a number of different ways and their freshman quarterback is simply terrific. South Carolina couldn’t stop them. Didn’t even come close as Texas A&M won the game 52-28. Mind you, this is a South Carolina team which went ahead and defeated both East Carolina and Georgia.
Texas A&M easily beat one of the top teams in the country. What’s even better, in their most recent game, Texas A&M slaughtered Rice 38-10. (Rice is a better team than SMU.) Now we come to the part that’s true. "Guys weren't very happy with how they played tonight," coach Kevin Sumlin said. "In the locker room our guys were ho hum and pretty hard on themselves ... and that's good." "We started off slow," QB Hill said. "We never want to start it off slow. We are going to work on that and fix that and be better next week." What really happened was that Rice was able to keep the ball away from Texas A&M and also their field was in tatters. Neither of this is going to happen this week. Translate this into Texas A&M intends to score about 80 points against SMU.
What’s SMU going to do about it? Nothing, that’s what. SMU is a horror show. They are 0-2 this season and have scored 6 points while giving up 88. They lost to North Texas by the score of 43-6. Their coach quit. Here is the most compelling fact. So far in two games, SMU has a total of -14 yards rushing. What that means is they won’t be able to keep the ball away from the Texas A&M offense. What does Texas A&M do when they have the ball? They score, that’s what they do.
Texas A&M needs to impress the human committee which is pondering whether or not they should invite 2 SEC teams to the playoffs. Games like this count, especially when you go on the road and win big. Even if Texas A&M feels sorry for SMU, they won’t help them score points. They can’t score points. If SMU somehow manages to get 10 points, all Texas A&M needs to do is score 42 points to cover. They scored 52 against South Carolina. End of story.
Lay the wood and laugh to the bank. Aggies for $800
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