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David Pollack doesn’t analyze college football games for ESPN anymore, but that doesn’t mean the former Georgia star linebacker doesn’t have 2 eyes and a platform to speak about the game.
On Saturday night, Pollack sat back and watched Texas A&M backup quarterback Marcel Reed enter the showdown against LSU and propel the Aggies to a huge victory that has them right in the middle of the College Football Playoff conversation. Texas A&M trailed LSU, 17-7, at halftime, needed a spark with starting QB Conner Weigman struggling and turned to the freshman Reed, who responded immediately with 3 touchdown runs that led the Aggies to a 38-23 victory.
Like the raucous 12th Man at Kyle Field and Aggies fans screaming from home, Pollack took notice.
“Insert Marcel Reed, you look up and this stuff went bananas, (a) 21-0 run in 9 minutes of time,” said Pollack. “I don’t think A&M has a quarterback controversy anymore. I think they’re pretty certain that that’s Marcel Reed’s job now moving forward.”
Marcel Reed totally transforms @AggieFootball’s outlook for this season. pic.twitter.com/eTKZjD40zk
— David Pollack (@davidpollack47) October 29, 2024
Reed completed both of his pass attempts on Saturday for 70 yards, and he finished with 9 carries for 62 yards and those 3 game-changing touchdown runs.
Despite Pollack’s justified excitement over Reed, nothing concrete has been decided yet by head coach Mike Elko regarding who will start at quarterback in the 10th-ranked Aggies’ Week 10 showdown at South Carolina on Saturday night. Texas A&M will kick things off with the Gamecocks at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC, as the Aggies look for their 8th straight victory.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
