Three Thoughts - Horns Take Down Aggies
Questions were answered loud and clear; Texas is the superior football team vs A&M
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 most weekends – 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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We waited 13 years for these two massive football programs to stop the talk and to get on a field and settle the annual arguments and tonight it finally resumed once again. In their first year back together in the SEC, we were treated to one of the finest rivalries in college football in a game that should be mandatory to be played every year from here to eternity.
Texas picked up where they left off and extended their sizable lead in the series with a very thorough win that at times was more difficult than it probably needed to be. But, the shouts for more testing before people are willing to admit that Texas is both very good and very deserving of their place in the polls are probably a little more likely to be quieted down. They went into a place that was dreaming of beating them and, at times, only them, and emerged without allowing a single offensive point.
Questions about whether they had played a reasonable foe or played a difficult road game or even the dreaded difficult road night SEC game against a reasonable foe have all been asked and answered. Texas is clearly very good again and now on their way to a second successive conference championship game in an altogether new conference.
Steve Sarkisian has done what he was hired to do – build a sustained power in college football in short order. Their well-controlled and balanced smothering of Texas A&M on Saturday Night will be remembered for quite some time as they beat the Aggies, 17-7 in front of a beyond-capacity Kyle Field crowd.
These are My Three Thoughts:
– For Texas, the performance was everything you would be looking for if you wanted to see a full team performance. It was clinical and it was thorough. It had many heroes and it proved depth and talent across the board on both sides of the ball. At no point did they look like the 2nd best side or even equaled. Texas is a true SEC heavyweight and let there be no questions about whether they are “really that good.”