The regular season ended a week ago for the Aggies, and ends this weekend for the rest of the world. The games potentially worth seeing this Saturday are LSU vs Georgia in the SEC championship game, Wisconsin vs Michigan State in the Big Ten championship game, Oklahoma against Oklahoma State, and Texas U. at Baylor.
I'd love to see Baylor give the longhorns a first-class ass-whipping, but if their quarterback can't play, it won't happen. Griffin III sustained a concussion against Texas Tech. I don't know his status, but if he's out, the longhorns will have caught another lucky break.
College Football News is putting together its bowl projections, and sees the Aggies in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl as the number seven team from the Big 12. The game will be played at Yankee Stadium on December 30th, and the potential opponent would be Rutgers (8-4), the number four team in the Big East conference. This would be like a home game for Rutgers. At 6-6 the Aggies have no business participating in a bowl, but if they're in one they'd better win. Especially if they're playing the number 4 team from the Big East.
Added 7:02 pm, Saturday: I didn't spend as many hours watching football on TV today as I thought I would, but saw enough to come up with a few opinions.
The butt-whipping Southern Mississippi gave Houston in the C-USA championship game was enough to convince me that all thoughts of hiring Kevin Sumlin to replace Mike Sherman should be shelved indefinitely. Today, UH looked too much like Texas A&M, and it brought back unpleasant recent memories. It's common knowledge that if you want to do well in the SEC, the first thing you need to do is build up a formidable defense. I haven't seen any UH games before today, but my impression is that their unbeaten season (to date) wasn't based on their formidable defense.
Louisiana State is pouring it on Georgia in the second half of the SEC championship game, and as much as I hate to say it, it seems like the only team that will beat LSU this year is LSU. They're the typical top SEC Team: incredible defense, effective offense built on a solid running game, reliable special teams -- you name it, they've got it. They remind me of Alabama when they won the NC a few years ago. R.C. Slocum used to say over and over that the successful teams were those that could run the ball and stop the run. His teams were designed to do those two things, and the Aggies usually won until they faced teams that were better at stopping the run than they were. At any rate, LSU looks like a Slocum wet dream, and I doubt they'll lose the national championship unless they beat themselves with penalties and turnovers.
After his longhorns edged their way past the Aggies to a 7-4 record, Mack Brown was talking about how they were getting their swagger back. Maybe he had overrated A&M, and his team thought that since they beat the Aggies and the Aggies beat Baylor, they could mail one in today in Waco. Sorry, Mack. The bears doubled up on the horns 48-24, and Griffin III was a big factor in the outcome. It seems that the single quality win for the Aggies in 2011 will be their victory over Baylor, now 9-3 and riding high. Texas finishes 7-5, one win better than A&M, but Mack's job is safe.
I'd love to see Baylor give the longhorns a first-class ass-whipping, but if their quarterback can't play, it won't happen. Griffin III sustained a concussion against Texas Tech. I don't know his status, but if he's out, the longhorns will have caught another lucky break.
College Football News is putting together its bowl projections, and sees the Aggies in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl as the number seven team from the Big 12. The game will be played at Yankee Stadium on December 30th, and the potential opponent would be Rutgers (8-4), the number four team in the Big East conference. This would be like a home game for Rutgers. At 6-6 the Aggies have no business participating in a bowl, but if they're in one they'd better win. Especially if they're playing the number 4 team from the Big East.
Added 7:02 pm, Saturday: I didn't spend as many hours watching football on TV today as I thought I would, but saw enough to come up with a few opinions.
The butt-whipping Southern Mississippi gave Houston in the C-USA championship game was enough to convince me that all thoughts of hiring Kevin Sumlin to replace Mike Sherman should be shelved indefinitely. Today, UH looked too much like Texas A&M, and it brought back unpleasant recent memories. It's common knowledge that if you want to do well in the SEC, the first thing you need to do is build up a formidable defense. I haven't seen any UH games before today, but my impression is that their unbeaten season (to date) wasn't based on their formidable defense.
Louisiana State is pouring it on Georgia in the second half of the SEC championship game, and as much as I hate to say it, it seems like the only team that will beat LSU this year is LSU. They're the typical top SEC Team: incredible defense, effective offense built on a solid running game, reliable special teams -- you name it, they've got it. They remind me of Alabama when they won the NC a few years ago. R.C. Slocum used to say over and over that the successful teams were those that could run the ball and stop the run. His teams were designed to do those two things, and the Aggies usually won until they faced teams that were better at stopping the run than they were. At any rate, LSU looks like a Slocum wet dream, and I doubt they'll lose the national championship unless they beat themselves with penalties and turnovers.
After his longhorns edged their way past the Aggies to a 7-4 record, Mack Brown was talking about how they were getting their swagger back. Maybe he had overrated A&M, and his team thought that since they beat the Aggies and the Aggies beat Baylor, they could mail one in today in Waco. Sorry, Mack. The bears doubled up on the horns 48-24, and Griffin III was a big factor in the outcome. It seems that the single quality win for the Aggies in 2011 will be their victory over Baylor, now 9-3 and riding high. Texas finishes 7-5, one win better than A&M, but Mack's job is safe.
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