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BigGuy wrote: There was a lot of talk that Arkansas was a serious contender for an SEC and BCS championship. Arkansas was ranked no 8. (low in my opinion) going into their second game.

I'm not going to say that Arkansas should have been ranked higher or lower, because I haven't watched them play this year. (And I feel your pain with high expectations and low results. That's A&M most years. )

I do think preseason rankings are stupid though. Look at last week: Arkansas and Wisconsin lost to unranked opponents, while Michigan, Florida and Notre Dame all barely beat unranked opponents. Was that because there were a bunch of upsets? Are those teams they played just that good? No.

Preseason rankings are based purely on hype, sports media biases, and speculation. I wish they'd release their first "Top 25" in about week 4 of the season, after we'd seen everybody play a few games. As it is now, as long as you have the hype to get you into the preseason Top 10, all you have to do to make a BCS games is not drop a game to someone you shouldn't. I think it is kind of silly.

/rant off.

Looking forward to Arkansas coming to Kyle Field this year. Just wish we were keeping the series Home and Home instead of moving back to Jerryworld.

Scott in Houston wrote:
The national titles are very silly to do now... The timing is what really makes it look bad. It would be different if it was over the summer or something.

The conference titles are incredibly bad. I mean just bad... Smacks of reaching hard to find something to brag about all the way to essentially lying. I'd be embarrassed of it if my school did that. I'm sure 90% of Aggies feel like you do about those.

It was done over the summer. Someone just decided to make a media issue of it the week before our first game of the season.

I wouldn't say its lying to claim those conference titles since as I mentioned, the Big 12 itself calls those "titles" thanks to their own stupid rules. I think its moronic and the only true Big 12 title I will ever claim is the one we earned in 1998, but if anyone wants to get mad at claiming those, I'd suggest complaining to the Big 12. They count divisional wins as championships for all their teams. I don't get it, but whatever..... After all, we don't have to care about Big 12 rules anymore.

I was able to attend the first SEC home game at Kyle Field on Saturday.

Quarterback looks promising, but he needs to learn that this isn't high school anymore, and EVERYONE is going to be fast. He can't just scramble, he's going to have to try and pass. Defense looked better than I expected. Lots of penalties, communication issues etc that you can always expect from the first game of the season.

After watching that game, I'm still going to hold onto my previous statement of 6-6 being the mark for a "good" season this year.

I think we have the potential to go 7-5, but that's about as far as I'd be willing to make any bets on. Florida (obviously), LSU, Alabama, and Mississippi State are all "for sure" losses in my mind. Mizzou will probably be a loss as well....they looked pretty good on Saturday night. If we do lose to Mizzou, as long as we can manage to only drop 1 game out of 3 to Arkansas, Ole Miss or Auburn we'll go 7-5. Drop 2 of those 3 and it'll be 6-6...which isn't great but for a new coach, style of play, conference and QB I'll take it.

6-6 is realistic, 7-5 would make me pretty happy, and 8-4 would rank as "exceeds all expectations". After watching Arkansas and Auburn these last 2 weeks, its entirely possible we could win 7 or 8....but I'm going to keep my expectations low and shoot for 6.

Regarding the national titles, they're long overdue. Many schools have claimed retroactive titles from pre AP championships in 1936. Frankly they should have added 1917 as well (Ags went undefeated and unscored upon, just like they did in 1919.). Are they silly? Yeah, but we certainly didn't start the trend. Heck, USC even claims 1939, when AP awarded the title to A&M. If you want to complain about a school claiming titles they don't deserve, talk to Alabama, who's gone so far as to claim a NC for a year they went 8-2.

The conference titles are dumber. The only big 12 title we have is 1998. But big 12 rules call division champions conference champions, so I guess you could argue we're following their dumb rules.
The big 12s own media guide credits A&M with 3 confrrence championships in football. http://www.big12sports.com/fls/10410//p ... M_ID=10410 (it's on page 6).

I'd prefer we just claimed '98, but if the conference considers them "championships" I can see why someone would want to claim them.

My .02 on the issue.

It's almost gameday.....

Scott in Houston wrote:

Ouch... that's brutal. What a bad break. So the opener is Florida at home? Yikes.
Florida isn't awesome this year, but they're definitely good, and as you said... you guys have a new Coach, QB, and of course, conference!



We get the Ponies at home. SMU is no push over this year. It should be a difficult test. Not like opening with TCU last year, but tough none-the-less.

Yep, opening up with Florida at Kyle. At least its at home, but still.....

We play SMU the week after Florida (9-15) so I might watch that Baylor SMU game if its on TV. Its not like I have Aggie football to watch this weekend....


Edit: To make that run even more fun, the only home game of that stretch is LSU. The rest are all away games.

Maybe you should rename this the "college football season" thread.


On that note, just found out that A&Ms season opener against La Tech has been posponed to Oct 13th because of Issac.

Now we get to jump into the season with a conference game, an untested QB and a new offense. Hooray!

To make things worse, that bye week before playing LSU, Auburn, Miss St and Bama in a row would have been nice midseason. Oh well.

Season starts this week!

Texas A&M is scheduled to play AT La. Tech on Thursday night.

Could be a wet game.

SQLGeek wrote:College Station has sky scrapers?

That billboard is in DFW or Houston (I don't remember which, I think there are some in both cities).

There's also one in Austin.

Scott in Houston wrote:You must be using a real QB... Maybe a Heisman with #10?

Negatory. I'm just really good at video games.

I assume because the Baylor guy has the ball that you're a Baylor fan? (You didn't really specify).


I won't be changing my avatar, but I am really looking forward to football season.





As for predictions?

Well, I'm currently 7-0 and ranked #2 in the country with A&M on NCAA '13, so I'd settle for that.... .


In all seriousness: New coach, new conference, new offense, new quarterback. I will be pleased with going .500 for the year this time around.

I'll be in College Station on Sep 8th for the Florida game. First SEC home game...can't miss it!