Jimbo Fisher got his first SEC win in a true road environment Saturday (the Aggies did beat Arkansas but that game was in Arlington) by leading Texas A&M to a 26-23 win over South Carolina in Columbia. The Aggies controlled the game throughout the contest but did allow the Gamecocks to get back into it in the end, something that Fisher noted his players handled well on the road.

Here’s what Fisher had to say immediately after his A&M team beat South Carolina.

“We left them in the game, they came back but our kids rose up,” Fisher noted. “The two last drives, we scored points we took drives, got the touchdown and ran the ball in.”

Fisher was then asked how his team managed to kill the momentum South Carolina had built by scoring twice late in the game.

“We don’t. We go back to training. You revert back to training, how you practice,” Fisher stated. “Toughness and the things we build the program on and I know everyone thinks that’s cliche but it’s not. When things get tough, when pressure comes your habits come straight to the surface. How we practice, the way we think, is what we do.”

Finally, Fisher noted that while his team did struggle to run the ball in this game, the Aggies relied on Kellen Mond to move the ball on offense and the young quarterback came thru on the road.

“We can throw the ball more than run the ball,” he continued. “I think we are learning to be balanced and they were taking it away so we learned to throw and the throws he made on that last drive in the red zone were big time.”

Mond finished the game completing 25 of 37 passes for 353 yards and one score. He also added 25 yards on the ground. As a unit, the Aggies piled up 458 yards of offense on South Carolina’s defense. With this win, Fisher now holds a 4-1 record over Will Muschamp (the two faced off four times as head coaches of Florida State and Florida).