One of the more fascinating aspects of college football is how quickly things can change from week to week.

It was just a few short weeks ago that we were talking about how far Texas A&M had fallen. It was a sudden collapse that had us scratching our heads. Sure, the Aggies lost their starting quarterback. But back-up Zach Calzada had battled Haynes King all the way to opening week for the starting job, so the drop-off shouldn’t have been that big. And yet it was.

Back-to-back losses to an Arkansas program that was the SEC doormat for the past few years, and Mississippi State, which had replaced the resurgent Razorbacks at the bottom of the SEC West rankings, left us wondering if indeed it was the Aggies who had fallen off the cliff and left to stare up at the rest of the league.

Then the unthinkable happened. Only 7 days after losing to a Bulldogs team perceived as the bottom feeder in their division and figuratively replacing them for that unenviable position, the Aggies knocked off the defending national champions. Stopped their long winning streak. Shocked the college football world. Left us all wondering just how crazy this wacky college football season would ultimately get.

Now there’s a big difference between pulling off a major upset like the one Texas A&M accomplished, and putting your program back on track. The Aggies’ 35-14 thumping of Missouri in its follow-up to their biggest victory in the Jimbo Fisher era appears to indicate that Fisher has checked both boxes for the program.

And what a comeback, if true. To fall so far so fast, and then get up off the mat and rise so high so quickly. Hopefully, Aggieland has endured the last of the whiplash effect that has permeated the 2021 season through the halfway point.

Yes, it certainly appears as though the Aggies are back on track. They moved up 4 more spots, to No. 17, in this week’s AP Top 25. They’re back to playing the kind of football we all expected them to when we returned to Kyle Field after the COVID pandemic robbed us of a first-hand look at one of the best seasons in program history.

And don’t look now, but the Aggies should be favored in the 5 remaining games on the 2021 schedule save for possibly the Nov. 13 date at Ole Miss, which is No. 12.

I know, I know, the way this season is going who can predict anything with even the slightest degree of certainty. But Aggies football is back to where it was originally expected to be at the outset of this nutty year. They are 2 weeks removed from the best victory in college football and haven’t let it go to their heads – or at least didn’t on Saturday.

Is that an overreaction? Probably, especially given the ambiguity of the 2021 season so far. But hey, as long as we’re taking this route, let’s finish the dream scene. Aggies win out, take care of business, run the gauntlet over the final 5 games.

Do that and guess what? An Alabama stumble against Tennessee, LSU or Arkansas (all home games) or an Iron Bowl debacle at Auburn (much more likely) and guess which team goes to Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game? You got it, the Aggies.

In this silly season, that could still happen.

It’s a maroon-colored glasses look ahead that we as fans are afforded, but definitely not a part of Fisher’s process. Certainly not the mindset that’s put this program back on track. No, that’s the kind of clutter he has vehemently preached against as part of the process intended o elevate the program to a championship level.

So, we’ll let Jimbo continue to do his thing inside the locker room. Meanwhile, the rest of us on the outside, well we’ll just keep dreaming big.