A&M is very fortunate that its first game is at Kyle. We are also fortunate that it is Florida as opposed to most of the other SEC competition.

There is no question that Florida will be favored and for good reason. Yet the psychology will be in A&M's favor in a similar way that we have had it against Texas in years past when at Kyle.

Everyone in the Div-1 football world will be watching and the squeeze will be on. It will be on Sumlin to win and/or have respectable play. Aggies will be squeezing. Sumlin will be squeezing. The theater curtain of the main show rises on A&M for this game.

But there will be more of a squeeze on Muschamp...and Florida.

Florida had a flat season last year, as we know, but all the goodwill capital is used up in Gainesvile. Muschamp has had his 'transition' year. Now the knives will be out. Now he has to cut the mustard. He has much shorter of a leash than Sumlin has. Expectations are higher in Florida.

A Florida loss to A&M would turn heads in the college football world. It would not be a 'surpise', as much as it would be 'notable'. Specifically, it would signal what everyone already knows..and that is that A&M 'can' compete in this league. It would also turn heads among the Florida brass along with their fans. The seat would become immediately warm for Muschamp.

Point being is that is in many ways, there is more to lose than to gain by Florida in this first SEC matchup. Yet an A&M win would set a great tone...for the conference and, of course, for us. We will have some SEC losses next year. But this one is conceivably winnable (unlike some).

I think the football gods were looking out for us when the SEC schedulers were working the scenarios. The final one is good for us. The schedule is most favorable for the first year gauntlet.

And make no mistake, it IS a gauntlet.


9torque

I like your thinking and agree a W against Florida would open some eyes.

We will either win or lose.

Very important game. But you used the word "squeeze" too much.

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Everyone in the Div-1 football world will be watching and the squeeze will be on.

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That's funny!

You know, this game IS a squeeze. It's the squeeze game of the year if you really think about it. Future SEC matchups this year may be more 'important', yet it will be so in other ways.

The squeeze will be on Muschamp like no other game he has coached at Florida. Not because A&M is the opponent. But because he MUST win now...and certainly against a perceived lesser opponent and newcomer to the league.

The squeeze will be on Sumlin because the curtain is rising on him. He has to perform respectably.

This is what is GREAT about SEC competition. There ARE no doormats. Every conference game is balls to the wall.

The winner of this gauntlet of a conference rules college football.

Period.


Squeeze Army.


9torque

When I saw the thread title, I thought it was either going to be about nuts or orange juice. I have to say I am a little disappointed.

That is all.

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certainly against a perceived lesser opponent and newcomer to the league.

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See, the pressure is on the incumbent SEC. We have them right where we want them!

Florida will bring perhaps the best defense in the nation to Kyle next season, and do it against a brand spanking new offense.

Florida is going to be anything but an easy out, they're going to be nasty.

why is Florida guaranteed to be a favorite

kaput, we play LSU at Kyle...

Check the numbers if you don't believe it.

They lose one player off the defense, and return everyone else including depth.

That settles it. Kaput is a Gator.....

Remember don't squeeze if there are cameras nearby.

It's pretty ironic that people like Dave R74 find that picture so embarrassing but post it at every available opportunity.

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Too much Koolaid, is all.

Look at which team scored on the ESPN bottom line of that picture...it's a sign!

Nice troll

Squeeze Army!

Ugh, how stupid... squeeeeeze

Florida at Kyle...brings back bad memories of Miami at Kyle. Or the Ags at Miami...

"Point being is that is in many ways"

Lol, wut?

We will beat Florida.

I hate the term "squeeze"

bq06, i was thinking the same thing, anytime there is a watershed moment for A&M football, it all turns to crap for us, florida will be a loss for all the reasons that we need the win, I want to win but anytime A&M needs to make a statement or a next step win, it ends up blowing up in our faces, that is Aggie football in a nutshell

How do other teams across the country ever win without 'squeezing'?

Squeeze Florida?

I also hate the term "squeeze" but the OP has a good point. This game will be awesome...The Ags will come in 1-0 after demolishing Mcneese and some will drink the koolaide. I wont bc Ive done it too many times BUT everything leading up to this game will be epic...cant wait for tailgating for the first SEC game at Kyle.

This is perhaps the biggest game for recruiting we'll have all year. We're being negatively recruited by Big 12 teams who're telling recruits, "A&M is gonna suck next year....Watch, they won't even make a bowl....If you go there you're gonna get pounded week-in and week-out....They've just voluntarily relegated themselves to the cellar....etc., etc." Therefore, OP is right, this game is freakin' HUGE. if we're blown out in this game, it gives all the negative recruiting credibility and legs to continue. If we lose a tough, hard-fought, competitive game, it will probably not be a big negative, but perhaps a small positive in recruiting, because recruits will say, "Damn, first SEC game against a team as talented as Florida and look what they did. If I come here next year things look good for the future." And, if we WIN, it completely limits the credibility of all the negative recruiters in their recruiting effort (recruits remember this stuff for YEARS afterward, no matter what school they decided to go to) and puts the lie to A&M "sucking" in the SEC.

I wonder how many recruits we're going to have at the game. I'll guess at least 60 but no more than 95.

I've seen 'em play since way back when
And they've always had the grit.
I've seen 'em lose and I've seen 'em win
But I've never seen 'em quit.

Everytime I read a 9torque thread my IQ drops at least 10 points

squeeze=gay

When you type "squeeze" on this board:

It should read "*******".

JMO.

^ stupid ( el nino)

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Something about oranges because they are from Florida.

the whole squeeze thing by the corps is the gayest sh*t ever... of course most odd things the corps does is homo-erotic.