Three Thoughts - Aggies Destroy Missouri
Mizzou were expected to provide significant challenge at Kyle Field..and did not at all.
Three Thoughts is back as our signature way to summarize a noteworthy game we want to cover during the 2024 college football season at #Sturmstack. We grab about one game per weekend – usually featuring Texas or Texas A&M – and bringing our notebook to see what jumps out at us in a brief recap that we do in memory of the man who did this first before his untimely demise, the late Grant Wahl…
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In a game that was much anticipated in Aggieland with regards to seeing how Mike Elko’s squad has progressed since the last time a Top 10-ranked squad came to town, the Missouri Tigers – who had been called fraudulent by more than a few in the build up to this game – barely registered the slightest resistance on either side of the ball. The Aggies win their 5th straight with a 41-10 mauling over 9th-ranked Missouri.
These are My Three Thoughts:
– It is pretty difficult to express how awkward Elko’s decision to put Conner Weigman in to such a big game would have become had he not delivered. Weigman’s performance verified that the right decision was made, but Elko absolutely risked a fair amount of faith from his fanbase by making a decision that almost nobody outside of his room was ready to make.
This may get lost in the revising of history, but at the exact moment word filtered around Kyle Field that Weigman - and not Marcel Reed – was getting the call for this lone showdown of ranked opponents in Week 6, the word hit the public in a similar fashion; confusion. They had beaten Florida and Arkansas in the SEC already with Reed and while his performances were mixed and the passing production stats were ranked down right below Oklahoma’s going into this week, it would have been very easy to start Reed and consider Weigman as a bullpen option if things aren’t going great. You could even argue that Reed earned the right to remain the starter if the winning continues.
But, Elko did not waver on this one and I am sure with the help of OC Collin Klein’s judgement, they wanted to give Weigman the start against a Missouri squad that had been ranked as high as 6th in the last few weeks and entered the game undefeated.