Three Thoughts - Aggies Overwhelm LSU
Seldom has a game had a tale of two halves like this one on an unforgettable night for Mike Elko's program.
Three Thoughts is our signature way to summarize a noteworthy game we want to cover during the 2024 college football season at #Sturmstack. We grab one game per weekend – 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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There are some wild nights in college football and we sure had one last night in College Station. The two last undefeated SEC teams squared off and a heated rivalry was given another chapter as the home team in this series has now won for eight consecutive years. Only this time, that home team was down 17-7 at halftime with a score that might have been even worse if LSU had cashed in all of its opportunities and A&M was rather lifeless. Yet, it was a big day if you believe in halftime-adjustments because the home side found the right combination on offense and defense and won the 2nd half of the game, 31-6, and the game 38-23, as somehow Texas A&M finds itself all alone at the top of the SEC as the calendar changes to November.
This is a situation literally nobody could have predicted two months ago.
And these are My Three Thoughts:
– The QB change to Marcel Reed last night had to be made and flipped the game in a way you will seldom ever see. Reed provided the spark and the juice that the offense had been missing and is now your QB1 moving forward. The job has been won.