ABATTBQ11 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I'm happy we are 4-0. I had ND as a definite loss, and was surprised we kept it close. A fluke win (ND missed PAT) is still a win.

I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

MSU - close win
Florida - close win (L would not be surprising)
@arky - OT win
@LSU - 10+ point loss
@Mizzou - 7+ point loss
SC - win
Samford - big win
@t.u. - 6+ point loss

9-3 which would be fantastic and far exceeds my expectations.

That said, from what I've seen so far we just don't look like a playoff team. That's why I say we lucked out with the schedule. We get MSU instead of Ole Miss. Florida instead of TN or Georgia.

Watching the night games Saturday - PSU/Oregon, Bama/Georgia - those teams are still on another level compared to us.

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I think we get a close win this weekend. Florida does not look good at all, and I think we should win that game pretty easily. Arkansas is a dumpster fire. LSU is always tough, and with the game being in BR, I'm going to assume a loss. Mizzou may or may not be good. It's really hard to tell with who they have played, but they allowed 31 to Kansas. I think that should be a winnable game. SC and Stamford should both be wins. As for tu, **** those guys. We're gonna take a dump in their Cheerios.

We may not look like a playoff team, but that doesn't mean we can't make the playoffs.

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Florida currently looks terrible. They have talent but their coaching staff is atrocious. Their schedule is brutal too

BillyBob79 said:

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I think the number is 867-5309.

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POTD

who says $75 million can't buy you anything nowadays?

If Jimbo were still running things, A&M wouldn't be ranked #6. We're going all the way!

NoahAg said:

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Hot take: Our 4-0 record has very little to do with coaching. It is much more the product of:

*Roster.
*Schedule:
-UTSA and USU cupcakes.
-Pleasant road win against a ND team that probably isn't as good as advertised. Thank you backup QB for gift wrapping the botched PAT.
-Our tougher games are at the back end of the schedule.
-We don't have to play the SEC's best teams: Bama, Georgia, Ole Miss, TN

Call me on Nov 9th after we've played @arky, @LSU, and @Mizzou to tell me how great Elko is.

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Right now our strength of record is the best in the country by most probability metrics.

Example: https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume

What this means is that our current 4-0 record is better than the record that the #25 team would be expected to have against our schedule vs that same comparison made for everybody else's current record and the schedule they've played.

Every single one of our opponents so far is likely considered better by objective metrics than what the typical fan thinks they are.

Both Utah State and UTSA are looking like they are roughly in the top 10-15 of Group of 5 type teams (ie they are equivalent and maybe better than teams like Oklahoma State, UCLA, North Carolina, West Virginia, Northwestern, etc

While a 5-7 preseason prediction was dumb I think its ok to be in wait and see mode.

I think how we do vs Auburn, MSU, Florida, Arkansas, and Mizzou will tell us plenty. We are way better on paper than all of them. Need to win em all (obviously off to a good start w Auburn win).

Win those and no rational person holds losing at LSU and at Texas against you unless there is obvious coaching malpractice during those games. That puts us at 10-2 and into the playoff.

a.froman said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I'm happy we are 4-0. I had ND as a definite loss, and was surprised we kept it close. A fluke win (ND missed PAT) is still a win.

I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

MSU - close win
Florida - close win (L would not be surprising)
@arky - OT win
@LSU - 10+ point loss
@Mizzou - 7+ point loss
SC - win
Samford - big win
@t.u. - 6+ point loss

9-3 which would be fantastic and far exceeds my expectations.

That said, from what I've seen so far we just don't look like a playoff team. That's why I say we lucked out with the schedule. We get MSU instead of Ole Miss. Florida instead of TN or Georgia.

Watching the night games Saturday - PSU/Oregon, Bama/Georgia - those teams are still on another level compared to us.

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I think we get a close win this weekend. Florida does not look good at all, and I think we should win that game pretty easily. Arkansas is a dumpster fire. LSU is always tough, and with the game being in BR, I'm going to assume a loss. Mizzou may or may not be good. It's really hard to tell with who they have played, but they allowed 31 to Kansas. I think that should be a winnable game. SC and Stamford should both be wins. As for tu, **** those guys. We're gonna take a dump in their Cheerios.

We may not look like a playoff team, but that doesn't mean we can't make the playoffs.

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This ought to be a playoff year. You arguably don't have the top 5 teams in SEC on your schedule in Ole Miss, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Alabama.

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Obviously a lot of games left, but do you think a 9-3 (best case for us, imo) Aggie team makes the playoffs along with those 5 teams, who I assume will finish ahead of us in the SEC standings?

Ole Miss will finish no worse than 10-2, maybe 11-1 if they beat OU.
Same with Georgia (they play each other).

Really, even if some combo of those teams beat each other (also throw in LSU), I don't see any of them finishing with more than 2 losses. I see the SEC championship being Bama vs LSU or Georgia.

How many 2-loss SEC teams will make the playoffs?

NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

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After we're 9-0 it will be 10-2.

You're a joke.

NoahAg said:

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a.froman said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I'm happy we are 4-0. I had ND as a definite loss, and was surprised we kept it close. A fluke win (ND missed PAT) is still a win.

I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

MSU - close win
Florida - close win (L would not be surprising)
@arky - OT win
@LSU - 10+ point loss
@Mizzou - 7+ point loss
SC - win
Samford - big win
@t.u. - 6+ point loss

9-3 which would be fantastic and far exceeds my expectations.

That said, from what I've seen so far we just don't look like a playoff team. That's why I say we lucked out with the schedule. We get MSU instead of Ole Miss. Florida instead of TN or Georgia.

Watching the night games Saturday - PSU/Oregon, Bama/Georgia - those teams are still on another level compared to us.

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I think we get a close win this weekend. Florida does not look good at all, and I think we should win that game pretty easily. Arkansas is a dumpster fire. LSU is always tough, and with the game being in BR, I'm going to assume a loss. Mizzou may or may not be good. It's really hard to tell with who they have played, but they allowed 31 to Kansas. I think that should be a winnable game. SC and Stamford should both be wins. As for tu, **** those guys. We're gonna take a dump in their Cheerios.

We may not look like a playoff team, but that doesn't mean we can't make the playoffs.

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This ought to be a playoff year. You arguably don't have the top 5 teams in SEC on your schedule in Ole Miss, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Alabama.

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Obviously a lot of games left, but do you think a 9-3 (best case for us, imo) Aggie team makes the playoffs along with those 5 teams, who I assume will finish ahead of us in the SEC standings?

Ole Miss will finish no worse than 10-2, maybe 11-1 if they beat OU.
Same with Georgia (they play each other).

Really, even if some combo of those teams beat each other (also throw in LSU), I don't see any of them finishing with more than 2 losses. I see the SEC championship being Bama vs LSU or Georgia.

How many 2-loss SEC teams will make the playoffs?

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I don't think 9-3 gets us in. That would mean we probably only beat 1 ranked team in Notre Dame all year. Our losses would be to LSU, Missouri and Texas. Right now none of the other teams we play are close to ranked. There will be too many 10-2 type teams out there unfortunately in other conferences.

Orlando Ayala Cant Read said:

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While a 5-7 preseason prediction was dumb I think its ok to be in wait and see mode.

I think how we do vs Auburn, MSU, Florida, Arkansas, and Mizzou will tell us plenty. We are way better on paper than all of them. Need to win em all (obviously off to a good start w Auburn win).

Win those and no rational person holds losing at LSU and at Texas against you unless there is obvious coaching malpractice during those games. That puts us at 10-2 and into the playoff.

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I posted before the season in a prediction thread that every year the gloom and doomers always think everyone on our schedule is going to be better than they were last year and better than us and that every year a lot of those teams end up being worse than expected. Before the season, most thought Auburn, Florida and Arky would all be really good teams and tough for us to beat. We have already beaten Auburn and Florida and Arky look like trash.

Most were also chalking up LSU and sip as definite losses. They may still end up that way but neither one of those teams has shown any signs of having an offense at this point.

The only problem with this always happening is that we have historically found a way to lose to one or two of the teams that weren't that good that year (like 5-7 Auburn last year). If we can eliminate that, then we will break through.

Jimbo has this team 2-2 regardless of what assistants or S&C he had. Jimbo could not beat Notre Dame or Auburn but Elko found a way. Anyone saying otherwise is an automatic tune out.

NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I'm happy we are 4-0. I had ND as a definite loss, and was surprised we kept it close. A fluke win (ND missed PAT) is still a win.

I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

MSU - close win
Florida - close win (L would not be surprising)
@arky - OT win
@LSU - 10+ point loss
@Mizzou - 7+ point loss
SC - win
Samford - big win
@t.u. - 6+ point loss

9-3 which would be fantastic and far exceeds my expectations.

That said, from what I've seen so far we just don't look like a playoff team. That's why I say we lucked out with the schedule. We get MSU instead of Ole Miss. Florida instead of TN or Georgia.

Watching the night games Saturday - PSU/Oregon, Bama/Georgia - those teams are still on another level compared to us.

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Penn State?

Absolutely ******ed take.

Heineken-Ashi said:

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NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I'm happy we are 4-0. I had ND as a definite loss, and was surprised we kept it close. A fluke win (ND missed PAT) is still a win.

I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

MSU - close win
Florida - close win (L would not be surprising)
@arky - OT win
@LSU - 10+ point loss
@Mizzou - 7+ point loss
SC - win
Samford - big win
@t.u. - 6+ point loss

9-3 which would be fantastic and far exceeds my expectations.

That said, from what I've seen so far we just don't look like a playoff team. That's why I say we lucked out with the schedule. We get MSU instead of Ole Miss. Florida instead of TN or Georgia.

Watching the night games Saturday - PSU/Oregon, Bama/Georgia - those teams are still on another level compared to us.

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Penn State?

Absolutely ******ed take.

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You think our defense can hold a team like Oregon to 17 points in regulation? Regardless of how their offense looked that is impressive.

9-3, no, but if we do well this weekend 10-2 looks pretty doable. Hell, so does 11-1.

vander54 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Hot take: Our 4-0 record has very little to do with coaching. It is much more the product of:

*Roster.
*Schedule:
-UTSA and USU cupcakes.
-Pleasant road win against a ND team that probably isn't as good as advertised. Thank you backup QB for gift wrapping the botched PAT.
-Our tougher games are at the back end of the schedule.
-We don't have to play the SEC's best teams: Bama, Georgia, Ole Miss, TN

Call me on Nov 9th after we've played @arky, @LSU, and @Mizzou to tell me how great Elko is.

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Jimbo had a better roster
Our schedule always has at least 2 cupcakes to start the season
ND is a very good team maybe not top 10 but still very good

Now we do need to not have a WTF game but there are plenty of signs for optimism.

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Jimbo had the better WHAT??
He might have had the higher accumulation of "stars" (as viewed by recruiting services), but that doesn't mean he had a better roster at all.

The way to gauge actual talent....not guesstimated projections....is NFL draft pick quantities.
Jimbo's wasn't all that great.
Elko's is still t.b.d.

AgLA06 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

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After we're 9-0 it will be 10-2.

You're a joke.

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If we go 9-0 I would say we finish 11-1, maybe 12-0. That would be awesome.
It works out great that we get an off week b/t LSU and Mizzou, but I still think we drop both.

AgLA06 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

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After we're 9-0 it will be 10-2.

You're a joke.

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@ ND was not a fluke win, period.

I'm still predicting 8-4

I thought you left.

Discuss Notre Dame.

Notre Dame loses at Miami.

Ags win in South Bend.

Notre Dame wins over Purdue and then at Arkansas. Arkansas fires Sam Pittman because of that game.

Ags and Miami are in the Top 5.

Win over ND seems pretty solid to me.

If we never hired Jimbo, then Elko most likely would have never been our DC. Jimbo's teams were best when Elko was on his staff. When he left for Duke, the wheels fell off for Jimbo. It's true that there could be no correlation but I like to think our investment in Jimbo is actually bearing fruit now and in future years simply for the fact that Jimbo came to A&M and brought Elko with him originally. In that regard, I'm very grateful for the Jimbo era and the fact that we can afford to buy him out.

It's a long season and things happen along the way to derail momentum but you have to look at what we've done so far and feel optimistic about this team and coaching staff.

Divining Rod said:

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who says $75 million can't buy you anything nowadays?

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we're rich, sec bit$*es...pay Jimbo 75$ million to sit in the corner...

NIL A&M is a beast, the rest of SEC will soon figure it out

NoahAg said:

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Hot take: Our 4-0 record has very little to do with coaching. It is much more the product of:

*Roster.
*Schedule:
-UTSA and USU cupcakes.
-Pleasant road win against a ND team that probably isn't as good as advertised. Thank you backup QB for gift wrapping the botched PAT.
-Our tougher games are at the back end of the schedule.
-We don't have to play the SEC's best teams: Bama, Georgia, Ole Miss, TN

Call me on Nov 9th after we've played @arky, @LSU, and @Mizzou to tell me how great Elko is.

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So funny how you say the ND win probably isn't as good as advertised and then go on to say "call me after we've played arky… dude, Arky just got dismantled vs your "not as advertised" ND team… so which is it?? ND isn't that good or "call me after arky"??

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We are in good hands with Elko. A&M wouldn't be #6 if Jimbo was still in charge. This is our year guys. We will win it all. I'm feeling it!

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If you're feeling it, don't do it around others.

agspirit_09 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Hot take: Our 4-0 record has very little to do with coaching. It is much more the product of:

*Roster.
*Schedule:
-UTSA and USU cupcakes.
-Pleasant road win against a ND team that probably isn't as good as advertised. Thank you backup QB for gift wrapping the botched PAT.
-Our tougher games are at the back end of the schedule.
-We don't have to play the SEC's best teams: Bama, Georgia, Ole Miss, TN

Call me on Nov 9th after we've played @arky, @LSU, and @Mizzou to tell me how great Elko is.

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So funny how you say the ND win probably isn't as good as advertised and then go on to say "call me after we've played arky… dude, Arky just got dismantled vs your "not as advertised" ND team… so which is it?? ND isn't that good or "call me after arky"??

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To be fair.. every single year this board calls Notre Dame, overrated.

Now?

Davidtheag said:

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Ghost of Bisbee said:

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BillyBob79 said:

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I think the number is 867-5309.

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WHO????

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I think that's Jenny's Number.

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Its certainly not my number

That 3 game road trip is going to make or break this team. @arky, @lsu, @mizzou

Winning all 3 will be a massive challenge

If the Ags can't win 10+ games this year with this schedule, something went very wrong.

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That 3 game road trip is going to make or break this team. @arky, @lsu, @mizzou

Winning all 3 will be a massive challenge

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Imo this season was all about 2 pivotal points.

Win one of ND, LSU, and Texas (done already)

Win every other game we should win because we either got em at home or we have much better players.

Auburn
Mississippi St
Arkansas
Florida
Mizzou

Are all games we should win. This imo is the real test on if these are the same ol Aggies. Do that, and now you have the luxury of losing both at LSU and at Texas. But something tells me we will win at least one of those too so if that happens, you can indeed drop one of those other 4.

NoahAg said:

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Hot take: Our 4-0 record has very little to do with coaching. It is much more the product of:

*Roster.
*Schedule:
-UTSA and USU cupcakes.
-Pleasant road win against a ND team that probably isn't as good as advertised. Thank you backup QB for gift wrapping the botched PAT.
-Our tougher games are at the back end of the schedule.
-We don't have to play the SEC's best teams: Bama, Georgia, Ole Miss, TN

Call me on Nov 9th after we've played @arky, @LSU, and @Mizzou to tell me how great Elko is.

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Ridiculous. If you cannot see a clear difference between Elko and Fisher teams, you simply don't know what to look for as a fair weather fan.

Are you even a fan of A&M? This sounds like a hater and troll to me. Why even watch with this poor attitude?

So I will flip the script to help you out. Yes, back end of heavy loaded and watch this team go 9-3 which absolutely gets your a CFP spot. Go cry a river.

NoahAg said:

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AgLA06 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Blue Chip said:

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NoahAg, are you frustrated that A&M is 4-0? Your predictions:
Notre Dame 34 - 17 A&M
Auburn 27 - 24 A&M

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I think my "final" preseason prediction was 6-6. Of course, after ND it had to change to 7-5. Based on our first 4 games my guess for the rest of the season would be:

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After we're 9-0 it will be 10-2.

You're a joke.

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If we go 9-0 I would say we finish 11-1, maybe 12-0. That would be awesome.
It works out great that we get an off week b/t LSU and Mizzou, but I still think we drop both.

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Mizzou has played:

Central Arkansas
Kansas
Louisiana
SC
UMass

Not sure why you're confident we drop a game to them. We'll see how good they really are in a couple weeks.

If Jimbo was still coaching this team, I think he would be 3-1 with a loss to Notre Dame and a win over Auburn. Jimbo went 7-16 (7-14 SEC) in true road games, but 16-6 in SEC home games, including 2-1 against Auburn. Before winning our last 3 home games against Auburn, we had lost our first 4 home games against Auburn in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019, and 3 of those 4 losses were under Sumlin. Jimbo lost his first home game against Auburn in 2019 before winning his last 2 home games against Auburn in 2021 and 2023 by 17+ points each.

If we win our next 3 games against Mississippi State (home), Florida (home), and Arkansas (away), we will start 7-0 for the first time since 1994 before a road game at LSU. We are 0-6 in Baton Rouge since joining the SEC. Even worse, LSU is the second half of back-to-back road games, and it is very rare to win back-to-back SEC road games. That's why I'm going to assume a loss to LSU. With a likely road loss to LSU, we must win 2/3 November SEC games against Missouri (away), South Carolina (home), and Texas (away) to finish 10-2 (6-2 SEC) and make the playoffs.

We have lost 7 consecutive November or later road games dating back to a 29-19 loss at Ole Miss on 11/13/2021.

11/13/2021: 29-19 loss at 10-3 (6-2 SEC) Ole Miss
11/27/2021: 27-24 loss at 6-7 (3-5 SEC) LSU
11/12/2022: 13-10 loss at 5-7 (2-6 SEC) Auburn
11/4/2023: 38-35 loss at 11-2 (6-2 SEC) Ole Miss
11/25/2023: 42-30 loss at 10-3 (6-2 SEC) LSU
11/2/2024: 44-20 loss at 9-4 (5-3 SEC) South Carolina
11/23/2024: 43-41 4-OT loss at 5-7 (2-6 SEC) Auburn

A win over Missouri or Texas would be our first November/December road win in 5 years, but losses to both Missouri and Texas would extend our November road losing streak to 9 games and stretch into 2026. We must win one of the two road games at Missouri and Texas to make the playoffs.

Yep. They're basically 2-3 50/50 plays away from being #1 in the country. And they are going to get better as the season wears on

StinkyPinky said:

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Good thing we're paying Jimbo not to screw this up.

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