Was Texas A&M a Playoff worthy team? Social media reacts to Aggies' first half performance in Orange Bowl against North Carolina
Since the College Football Playoff selection committee unveiled its first rankings of the 2020 season, Texas A&M fans – and some media members – have been vocal in arguing that Aggies deserved a Top 4 ranking.
Ahead of the final rankings, Jimbo Fisher and others lobbied for Texas A&M to get a spot in the College Football Playoff. The committee ultimately opted to give the non-Alabama spots to Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame and many Aggies fans and players cried foul.
The Aggies instead landed in the Orange Bowl against three-loss North Carolina. Fisher’s squad has its hands full with the No. 13 Tar Heels, leading many on social media to question the Aggies’ complaints of a Playoff snub as A&M leads 17-13 at the break.
Remember when people tried to argue that Texas A&M should get in the playoff over Ohio State? Those were fun times.
— Nate Atkins (@NateAtkins_) January 3, 2021
Texas A&M has a playoff defense but not a playoff offense, the committee got it right
— Walker Carswell (@notwalkerc) January 3, 2021
If Texas A&M is trying to make a statement that they should have been in the playoffs, I’m not seeing it. #sorry
— Amy Sward (@AmySward) January 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/TheAcademicBruh/status/1345552859513942016
https://twitter.com/GMas315/status/1345550439278927874
Initial reaction: Texas A&M d may have been good enough to make the playoff but the offense isn’t there.
— Luke Roth (@lukeroth1015) January 3, 2021
Texas A&M, supposed playoff team, can’t score on the trash defense of my beloved Tarheels
— Nicholas Shook (@TheShookster) January 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/ElitistJoe/status/1345556051635167236
Texas A&M is not deserving of the playoff
— Jake (@jake0192) January 3, 2021
This the Texas A&M team that was supposed to be in the playoffs?
— Darren (@spknreal) January 3, 2021
Texas A&M should be glad they didn’t make it to the playoffs
— John (@JohnV03) January 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/LARams101/status/1345556861534130177
Texas A&M are clowns for thinking they had a shot in the playoffs
— Price Fine (@priceman2000) January 3, 2021
People wanted Texas A&M in the playoff and they are losing to a short handed UNC team that lost to ND by two touchdowns
— Ryan Weier (@rweier23) January 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/NickMastro24/status/1345558187286663169
Remember the people wanting to expand the playoffs and let conference champs have an automatic bid, along with the highest rated G-5 team? Well yet again the semis were not close losers got beat by an average of 19 points, one conference champ that was not invited got beat and ended with 3 losses, The other beat a depleted 3 loss team, and all of the ranked G-5 teams got beat by teams not close to being good enough to be in the playoffs. So basically all the teams these people advocate would just be fodder for the 2 best teams. They need to just go back to the top 2.
I think it’s good to have a 4 team playoff. You couldn’t really find a definitive #2 between OSU and Clemson before they played. However, the fact that #4 is so far away from #3 shows that we don’t need to include 8.
In the eight years of the CFPs there have only been 3 semis out of 16 that were close.
The constant penalties have been the only real disappointment this season.
Sad – Mond has been there so long you no longer even notice the problem.
I am happy with what Mond has done this year, but it’s clear that his ceiling isn’t high enough. That’s something that couldn’t really be changed this year. Most of our penalties have been mental errors. That could have been cleaned up.
That’s a good way to put it. Looking forward to the next chapter in QB at TAMU and thankful for Mond’s leadership in helping instill a winning culture.
“A&M scored twice as many points against Alabama as ND did, A&M has been much more impressive against better competition”
I seem to remember an idiot making the comment above saying TAMU is better than ND and OSU..
I have said, and still say, they deserved it over OSU. I never thought they were better.
TAMU isn’t better than ND or OSU…
If the CFP committee is supposed to put the best 4 teams in the playoffs then they got it right…
I think it’s a toss up between ND and A&M. Really, 4-13 look incredibly close.
OSU, Clemson, and Alabama are on another level compared to everyone else.
I agree, but I think you need a resume. OSU did not have the resume to go to the playoffs, and had to have their conference change the rules twice to get there and have the players to win.
Notre Dame is a poor-man’s Texas A&M.
This conference change the rules crap is nonsense.. The SEC would have done the exact same thing if it needed too….
No team with Kellen Monde is a playoff caliber team. He has never been close to being consistent.
You can’t even spell Kellen Mond.
Please don’t underestimate the value of an education. Consider the GED.
Against an opt out heavy UNC team. I expected more from Texas A&M
The biggest surprise to me has been UNC’s defensive line holding up against the Maroon Goons. I thought A&M would be more dominant on the line of scrimmage.
And then they took over in the 4th.
I’m convinced that this team only knows how to win ugly. As an Aggie, I struggle to believe that we’ll muscle out close wins, but I’ve been proven wrong all year long.
Winning ugly is till winning. But they would have been owned by any of the 4 in the playoffs. Monde is not good enough to take over a game against really good competition. Congrats on a great season.
I disagree. A&M matches up pretty well with ND. Everyone has an off game now and then. A&M definitely had one for about 3 quarters tonight. They didn’t quit though. Under Sumlin, these kids would’ve thrown in the towel and limped out of Miami with an L to end the season. Tough teams keep at it. Even when things aren’t going their way. Outscoring your opponent 24-7 in any quarter will usually win you the game. ND was terrible against Bama and full strength Clemson, who gpt destroyed vs tOSU. I like A&M’s chances against ND.