Cover Story: Texas A&M's no-show in Starkville a devastating setback

The Aggies didn't deserve their No. 4 spot and will now fall as low as the Playoff Committee chooses to drop them. And nary a peep will be heard out of College Station to dispute a ranking that no longer matters.

Throughout September and October, Kevin Sumlin's Aggies succeeded in proving a nation full of skeptics wrong. On an ugly, embarrassing first weekend of November, A&M did everything in its power to prove those same critics right.