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re: No one fears A&M
Posted on 1/28/13 at 11:47 am to TeLeFaWx
Posted on 1/28/13 at 11:47 am to TeLeFaWx
First of all - congrats on a great season. Aggie surprised everyone.
To be fair though, this season was an anomaly in the SEC. Part of what makes this conference the best is the gauntlet that is usually 3-4 highly ranked teams on your conference schedule each year. Add in another couple for OOC and/or cross divisional opponent so that by year end you've faced 5-6 ranked opponents. It would usually be incredibly difficult to not only win all of these games, but really just to stay healthy enough to field a NC caliber team.
Aggie had the benefit of coming into the SEC in a rebuilding year for Bama, a year for LSU plagued by injuries and off the field issues, and dumpster fires at Arkie and Auburn. We won't know how competitive Aggie can really be until order is restored and all of these teams are back to normal. Right now they should just count themselves lucky that they get to ease their way into the conference and only need to deal with a few NC level teams each year.
Until that happens and Aggie dominates no one will be afraid of A&M. But as cocky as their fans are, that game will probably be circled on everyone's calendar so I'm sure they'll get the best everyone has to offer next year - it might not be the usual gauntlet, but it could be a taste of what's to come.
To be fair though, this season was an anomaly in the SEC. Part of what makes this conference the best is the gauntlet that is usually 3-4 highly ranked teams on your conference schedule each year. Add in another couple for OOC and/or cross divisional opponent so that by year end you've faced 5-6 ranked opponents. It would usually be incredibly difficult to not only win all of these games, but really just to stay healthy enough to field a NC caliber team.
Aggie had the benefit of coming into the SEC in a rebuilding year for Bama, a year for LSU plagued by injuries and off the field issues, and dumpster fires at Arkie and Auburn. We won't know how competitive Aggie can really be until order is restored and all of these teams are back to normal. Right now they should just count themselves lucky that they get to ease their way into the conference and only need to deal with a few NC level teams each year.
Until that happens and Aggie dominates no one will be afraid of A&M. But as cocky as their fans are, that game will probably be circled on everyone's calendar so I'm sure they'll get the best everyone has to offer next year - it might not be the usual gauntlet, but it could be a taste of what's to come.
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Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:19 pm to SanAntonioTigerFan
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First of all - congrats on a great season. Aggie surprised everyone.
To be fair though, this season was an anomaly in the SEC. Part of what makes this conference the best is the gauntlet that is usually 3-4 highly ranked teams on your conference schedule each year. Add in another couple for OOC and/or cross divisional opponent so that by year end you've faced 5-6 ranked opponents. It would usually be incredibly difficult to not only win all of these games, but really just to stay healthy enough to field a NC caliber team.
Aggie had the benefit of coming into the SEC in a rebuilding year for Bama, a year for LSU plagued by injuries and off the field issues, and dumpster fires at Arkie and Auburn. We won't know how competitive Aggie can really be until order is restored and all of these teams are back to normal. Right now they should just count themselves lucky that they get to ease their way into the conference and only need to deal with a few NC level teams each year.
Until that happens and Aggie dominates no one will be afraid of A&M. But as cocky as their fans are, that game will probably be circled on everyone's calendar so I'm sure they'll get the best everyone has to offer next year - it might not be the usual gauntlet, but it could be a taste of what's to come.
So Bama was rebuilding and still their only loss was to A&M and they won a NC? Damn, I guess they REALLY will be tough when they have their stuff together.
A&M sure did have a cakewalk schedule last year as well. After all, 12 straight games without a bye and 5 of 6 on the road in the middle of the season is cake. It was nice to get UF in such a down year as well from the East.
I think the Art Briles and "Texas Tech connection" posts were better.
The funny thing is A&M could go undefeated next year and win every game by at least 20 and Ranters would be on here going, "Yeah, maybe you were ok in a down year for the SEC but look at how many more NC's we have won in the last X number of years!" We get it, we will always be the newbies to some of you and any respect will come slowly if at all. No worries. The SEC is still a big bastion of brotherly love compared to where we came from.
Fear A&M or don't, I couldn't care less. We aren't going anywhere though.
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