A part of me says that Elko has been playing the whole season as one game.

4D chess

Had a bad couple of bad drives against SCAR and tu

Now he has more tricks up his sleeve to finish this thing.

BAS then kicks in and sees coordinators distracted, the horrible play calling, out-coached, and a beat down team constantly being told they and their schedule sucked.

Marty Smith and Josh Pate can only say so much!

We had a much better November than last year, when we lost our last 3 SEC games. We went 2-1 in November SEC games, our first winning November SEC record since 2018. Also, we snapped a 7-game November road losing streak with a dominating 38-17 road win at Missouri on 11/8. Our previous November or later road win was a 34-13 road win at Tennessee on 12/19/2020, and our previous November road win before 2020 was a 31-24 road win at Ole Miss on 11/18/2017.

With that said, we have struggled in our last two SEC games. We trailed South Carolina 30-3 at halftime before waking up to beat South Carolina 31-30. In contrast, we led Texas 10-3 before losing 27-17. We lost the turnover margin by a combined 6-2 in those two games. We cannot afford to lose the turnover margin again.

ElephantRider said:

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My gut says there's no way we win this game. The stars are aligned for a letdown

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This dude has been watching Aggie football for at least the last 15 years. Anyone familiar with the program knows that we'll fall flat on our face on national television where a win could really propel the program forward. It's tradition now to drop the ball at the most inopportune time.

Prove me wrong! I really hope I'm dead wrong.

I always have a bad case of BAS but I feel good about this one, I think we are better and will win.

Gaius Rufus said:

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90ags said:

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We had another Nov swan song…not as bad as last yr, but it happened (a top 5 team doesn't allow USCe to own a 1st half and lose all 3 phases vs ur rival knowing the significance of the game).

Elko is ahead of sched, but issue of winning 11 games means he reset expectations and told everyone to jettison the past of BAS.

Unfortunately tu performance proved the team not quite there mentally for the next steps and hard to just turn that switch on.

UM is better than tu IMO (DL, DBs, OL, RBs and a real passing QB) and not sure we really know how to be ready yet (but hope Elko somehow wills it into them via play and not all the cheap talk that we seem to be doing on many levels).

Bain will go out of his way to try and make a stmt this game due to pre talk (many forget he's projected as possible top 10 pick on some services).

We shall see how well prepared physically and mentally they are. BTHO miami!

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A November Swan song…

The Aggies dominated Mizzou on the road. Had the largest comeback in school history and went 3-1. Ignoring the 2020 COVID season, the last time the Ags went 3-1 in November was 7 years ago.

UM lost to SMU and Louisville and has an SOR of 14 and an SOS of 45. The hardest road game they played this season was against SMU, #20 according to Sagarin.

If you are going to go out of your way to discount the Aggies season based on 2 games they went 1-1 in, make sure you do the exact same for Miami who has 2 losses.

I get it's super easy to be scared and fearful and whiney, but come on. The direction this board is trending for this home playoff game is embarrassing.

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Agree 100%. This is also why intelligent folks go down political rabbit holes; they cherry pick what to focus on and what to ignore; and of course the media monetizes this natural bias. But back to football, the reality is Miami and A&M are very similar with score-w/l based power rankings putting both in the top 10 just outside of top 5. Vegas agrees with A&M-3.5 essentially meaning the teams are equal but A&M gives the points for home field. Both teams are capable of playing like the best team in the nation and also like a team that doesn't belong in the top 25. The predicted winner is a virtual coin toss. Regardless of this one game, people need to let go of BAS; or at least only base it on Elko's performance. Look at Florida after Meyer and Bama before Saban; it's all about the head coach.

One word, WIN. Nothing else matters

Reading this thread just reinforces the fact that SEC Shorts has us 100% nailed going into the playoffs...

I'm curious to see if on defense we bracket their Fr WR top and bottom to take him out of the game. Do their other WR do enough and can we cover them more man on man. If so that gives the DL more time to get to the QB.

We will win if Elko can get the team to tune out outside noise. Just concentrate on assignments. Play Aggie football!

One game at a time let's just win the next four games.

I'm just gonna enjoy the adventure and the fact that we are in!! In this crazy ass college football era, who knows when we will make it back

There's a bunch of defeatism in this thread.

BTHO Miami!

This is basically a bowl game to me. The playoffs don't start until we play Ohio State, IF we win this game.

Gyles Marrett said:

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Credible Source said:

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I have a feeling we do not win. I ignored all the media narratives until, the Texas loss, that was a 2X4 to the forehead.

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We played about as bad as we could possibly play in all 3 phases of the game...and only lost by 10 to our rival on the road...who was playing their superbowl with nothing else to play for except that game this season.

If that was really a 2x4 to your forehead you're being irrational.

The game was essentially lost by a piss poor defensive game plan. Let's sit back and see if Arch can beat us with all day to throw. The only concerning part of that game to me moving forward is why Elko thought that was a good idea that second half.

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This... Anyone that believes the media after one loss is simply mixing their passions for a rivalry game with what actually happened on the field. If the Texas game was "the 2x4," then the So Car really should have been it. We lost the Texas game, they didn't win it. I love Elko and am thrilled he's our coach, but we lost the Texas game due to a poor play calling adjustment. It's really that simple.

I don't know in fact we will beat Miami.... that's why the play them. But are we a team capable of winning the NT this year... 100%.

Logos Stick said:

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I thought the ND win away did that this year?!

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with ND not making the playoffs, we are back to no playoff caliber victories (cue Raptor thread)