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No more ACC!!! Where is the SEC content?

I do not understand why this site has so much ACC coverage but no article on important SEC games, like A&M's win over Kentucky. Is this site now dedicated to ACC coverage?

In 2016 the committee picked a "better" Ohio State over a "more deservng" Penn State that won the Big Ten championship and beat Ohio State on the field.

At least he presumably believes in the existence of outer space and planets.

You do realize, do you not, that the part about the fumble and score is simply not true.

Stranglehold, not stronghold.

Where do you get your stats? A&M's offense has given up 6 sacks. A&M's defense has sacked opposing quarterbacks 20 times. Alabama's offense has given up 20 sacks. Alabama's defense has sacked opposing quarterbacks 17 times. You need to do better.

"Texas A&M QB Conner Weigman , who finished 29-for-37 for 337 yards and a touchdown in the Aggies’ blowout win over UL-Monroe. … His top receivers, Ainias Williams and Jahdae Walker, who combined for 237 of those yards on 12 catches." Weigman was 25-29. Ainias Smith is in his fifth year as an Aggie. Basic inaccuracy destroys credibility and makes every word written worthless

Silly. First, no one is paying $76 million to fire a coach, more to fire his assistants, and still more to hire another coach. There are a lot of ways to spend more that $100 million, and this has to be one of the worst ones. No one who has that kind of mony would begin to contemplate wasting it like that. Second, you don't get fired at A&M or most schools for losing a game that was at one possession in the fourth quarter. You get fired for two things. You can get fired for embarassing the university, either with scandal or ineptitude (think Kevin Sumlin losing a 34 point lead in a little over a quarter of play). You can also get fired for recruiting meltdowns and transfers that rob a program of hope (think Brian Harsin, or Kevin Sumlin losing 2 5 star quarterbacks in a matter of days). Neither factor is in play here, at least so far. It's just a ridiculous narrative pushed by emotional fans and sports writers who ought to know better, not unlike the absurd narrative of a Fisher/Petrino feud used as click bait during the off season.

Paul Harvey, no one combines total irrelevance with sloppy inaccuracy quite like you.

I am endlessly amazed by the childlike myopia of sports fans who imagine that realignment decisions are made for competitive reasons. Realignment decisions are made on both sides by university governing boards for university level reasons, typically more money to fund athletic departments. The test of a good realignment decision is most often whether it yielded more money for both the moving entity and the receiving entity.

Jimbo: I'm not going to tell you how the offense will work. Conner O'Gara: I don't know how the offense will work. Duh.

Look at the espn interview. This is a media-fueled make believe issue.

Maybe facts should matter. In 11 years in the SEC, A&M is 90-48. In its last 11 years in the Big 12, A&M was 72-63.

Football fans and sports writers rarely get it. Universities are way bigger and vastly more important than sports teams. If you want to get fired as quickly as possible, preside over a program that embarasses your university, on the field or off. Fitzgerald allowed his program to embarass his university, and that was that.

This article absolutely hits the nail on the head. Even if A&M could somehow come up with $76 million to fire Fisher, the cost would devastate spending in other areas, including a new coach, and would doom A&M to mediocrity or worse for years if not decades. Football coaches, movie stars, baseball players, and everyone else get paid based on the market. A&M paid what was necessary to get Fisher in the first place and to keep him when LSU came calling. It's that simple. And the amount is huge, but so is the amount the Aggies are spending on facilities and assistant coach salaries. And A&M still has one of the most profitable athletic departments in the country, so it's hard to say the money has been wasted from a purely financial standpoint. So should the Aggies have saved some money and rolled the dice on a mid-major coach who might or might not make it at the Power 5 level, like another Sumlin perhaps, or a Frost, or a Napier? Or a former NFL coach like Sherman? That is hardly an assured road to success of any kind. The Aggies paid what was necessary to get the kind of coach they wanted and committed to investments across the board in the hope of long-term results. It was a gutsy move that has paid off financially and may yet pay off competitively. Until the book is closed on Fisher's tenure, it will be too soon to judge for sure.

Betting odds are not just a function of weighing the probabilities for each team to win. They are also influenced by the movement of money, so the oddsmakers will shade the odds in favor of the team it expects to garner the most bets. This is why odds move near game time, to reflect last minute bets. In general, a team like Alabama will attract a lot of money, and therefore it should tend over time to be favored more often than its strict probability of winning would dictate. This is reflected in the number of games it has lost when favored.

Texas recruiting classes per 247: 2010 2 2011 4 2012 2 2013 17 2014 17 2015 10 2016 7 2017 25 2018 3 2019 3 2020 8 2021 15 2022 5 2023 3 So tell me again how 2 good recruiting classes makes this Texas team different?

A&M did not go into Gainsville. The game was in College Station.

There are already a five-star freshman, an experienced four-star junior, and an incoming four-star freshman lined up in the stable. This is a fourth scholarship quarterback. What is the star rating of Auburn's fourth-string quarterback?

He also lost the second string gig to Mark Nabou. So not only is he not a starting lineman, he's not a second string lineman. Make no mistake--he's a good guy and a capable player. But he is neither first nor second string.

I do get tired or the same old mindless conventional wisdom being repeated as if it were true. Fisher's offense works beautifully with a good offensive line. Fisher's offense works horribly with a young, patchwork offensive line riddled with injuries. That was true at Florida State and it is true at A&M. The exact same is true of Petrino. The season will not depend on the media fueled Fisher vs Petrino drama, but on the offensive line and nothing else.

A fair and thoughtful analysis. I wish they'd put bylines on the front page so I can be sure to read articles by the best writers.

Geez. Do you ever do a piece that isn't a hit on Jimbo Fisher? This is getting very old and repetitive.

Last year Jimbo said his class was not built primarily on NIL and complained about Saban and Kiffin, who claimed he bought the class. Finebaum didn't believe Jimbo and defended Saban. This year Jimbo says schools are engaging in play for pay, exactly what he claimed not to do last year. Finebaum now laughs at Jimbo because he "didn't hear" what Jimbo said last year, presumably because he was too busy defending Saban and calling Jimbo a liar. There is just one constant--Finebaum is going to attack anything Jimbo says without regard to truth, consistency, or integrity.

Jimbo is reportedly telling interviewees that they will call plays.

So will the national news media stop fawning over Sam Pittman now? Will they write obituaries on Arkansas with the same glee applied to A&M? There is no chance. The narrative was written before the season began, and mere facts will not be allowed to interfere.

Ah, the contagious infatuation of the media with Arkansas! It seems to be invulnerable to actual facts or results. They lost the game to A&M because they didn't execute, made foolish mistakes, and quit in the face of adversity. What part of that will enable them to play competitively against Alabama?

Not enough love? The media is trampling each other to worship at the altar of Pittman.

"(A)ll we saw A&M do was look like the same offense that sputtered in 2021.". Now that's just silly. If anything, A&M looked like the exact opposite of the 2021 team. Instead of running well but being unable to complete long passes, the Aggies completed more long passes than anytime in the last decade, but had trouble running the ball. A closer look reveals that in comparison with early games last year, like Colorado, the Ags ran about the same, passed better, and played better defense. It is important to conduct a real analysis and not just defend preseason opinions.