Just to be a glutton for punishment decided to look up records using a different metric. Someone brought up road wins in conference so I decided, focusing again on Notre Dame since they are #6 pre-season, to look at our record in true road games against top 25 teams. This will exclude a few wins against Arkansas in Arlington and against Arizona St. in Houston since those were "neutral site" games.

Since 2012 (1st SEC season and the historic Bama win cited in the other thread) we are 5-18 on the road against ranked foes. The last win in such a game was in 2014 and we are 0-14 since.

the five wins we have are:

2012 #23 La Tech
2012 #17 Mississippi St
2012 #1 Alabama
2014 #9 S. Carolina
2014 #3 Auburn

Just another data point ... flame away, lol

Thanks for the reminder. I've seen a lot of Aggie stats over the years. What I am reminded of, no matter the level, is that average programs talk about their big wins/upsets and champions remember the regretted losses. Some things just never change!

Not directed to anybody on this thread but I can't wait to put the off season behind us. Stuff like this doesn't really matter because it's in the past. If we were undefeated on the road against top 25 teams, we'd have a couple of National Championships and Jimbo Fisher or Kevin Sumlin would still here. This is why we paid a lot of money to those guys to go away.

BTHOB-98 said:

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Not directed to anybody on this thread but I can't wait to put the off season behind us. Stuff like this doesn't really matter because it's in the past. If we were undefeated on the road against top 25 teams, we'd have a couple of National Championships and Jimbo Fisher or Kevin Sumlin would still here. This is why we paid a lot of money to those guys to go away.

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I'd say that our road struggles have bene consistent across multiple coaches and conferences.

This is, though, a new era of college football with NIL and the paying of players, so in one way its a new ball game and an apples to oranges thing.

But the data is the data.

I guess we're somewhere in between, because the games I remember most are 2012 Alabama, 2012 LSU, 2013 Peach bowl against Duke (some personal reasons there), 2017 UCLA, 2018 LSU, 2020 Alabama, 2020 Florida, 2021 Alabama, 2022 App State, and last year's Auburn game.

Edit-replied to the wrong post.

Mac94 said:

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Just to be a glutton for punishment decided to look up records using a different metric. Someone brought up road wins in conference so I decided, focusing again on Notre Dame since they are #6 pre-season, to look at our record in true road games against top 25 teams. This will exclude a few wins against Arkansas in Arlington and against Arizona St. in Houston since those were "neutral site" games.

Since 2012 (1st SEC season and the historic Bama win cited in the other thread) we are 5-18 on the road against ranked foes. The last win in such a game was in 2014 and we are 0-14 since.

the five wins we have are:

2012 #23 La Tech
2012 #17 Mississippi St
2012 #1 Alabama
2014 #9 S. Carolina
2014 #3 Auburn

Just another data point ... flame away, lol

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And three of those road victories were in 2012 when Johnny was QB.

Now look at what the average program does in road rabked wins.

vander54 said:

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Now look at what the average program does in road rabked wins.

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Probably looks a lot like we do. We have been very average.

Mac94 said:

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Just to be a glutton for punishment decided to look up records using a different metric. Someone brought up road wins in conference so I decided, focusing again on Notre Dame since they are #6 pre-season, to look at our record in true road games against top 25 teams. This will exclude a few wins against Arkansas in Arlington and against Arizona St. in Houston since those were "neutral site" games.

Since 2012 (1st SEC season and the historic Bama win cited in the other thread) we are 5-18 on the road against ranked foes. The last win in such a game was in 2014 and we are 0-14 since.

the five wins we have are:

2012 #23 La Tech
2012 #17 Mississippi St
2012 #1 Alabama
2014 #9 S. Carolina
2014 #3 Auburn

Just another data point ... flame away, lol

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The take-away is that we were very good in 2012.

well, the Ags should have 3 opportunities to get a ranked road win this year

TexAggie1999 said:

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Mac94 said:

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Just to be a glutton for punishment decided to look up records using a different metric. Someone brought up road wins in conference so I decided, focusing again on Notre Dame since they are #6 pre-season, to look at our record in true road games against top 25 teams. This will exclude a few wins against Arkansas in Arlington and against Arizona St. in Houston since those were "neutral site" games.

Since 2012 (1st SEC season and the historic Bama win cited in the other thread) we are 5-18 on the road against ranked foes. The last win in such a game was in 2014 and we are 0-14 since.

the five wins we have are:

2012 #23 La Tech
2012 #17 Mississippi St
2012 #1 Alabama
2014 #9 S. Carolina
2014 #3 Auburn

Just another data point ... flame away, lol

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The take-away is that we were very good in 2012.

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And still only came in third in our division

How about this stat- only 4 Home losses for the entire 1990s

I hear ya.

The epitome of "we're due"

No question the past 25 years has been underwhelming, often horrible. It's a product of making one bad coaching hire after another. In other words our big money boosters don't understand football as well as they think.

W said:

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well, the Ags should have 3 opportunities to get a ranked road win this year

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We could have 4 road games against ranked opps. I think Missouri will be ranked by the time we play them. Their first road game is not until Oct 18 and they have 3 cup cake games in the first half with their 4th OOC opponent being Kansas. Their 2 games before ours are @ Auburn and @ Vandy. The do have S.Car and Bama at home before we play them. If they are 6-2 before our game, they will probably be ranked..

Ugly said:

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I guess we're somewhere in between, because the games I remember most are 2012 Alabama, 2012 LSU, 2013 Peach bowl against Duke (some personal reasons there), 2017 UCLA, 2018 LSU, 2020 Alabama, 2020 Florida, 2021 Alabama, 2022 App State, and last year's Auburn game.

Edit-replied to the wrong post.

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Tulsa '91 - we are playing for natty without that blemish on our record

All were Sumlin wins

JohnClark929 said:

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No question the past 25 years has been underwhelming, often horrible. It's a product of making one bad coaching hire after another. In other words our big money boosters don't understand football as well as they think.

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It's almost like Jerruh Jones is picking the coach/players.

"I've seen that guy's name in the media. Let's get him."

If only Bucky could have played on the bad ankle…