Three Thoughts - Texas A&M at Florida

The Aggies needed to start their SEC season by proving they could win on the road.

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…

Two teams who are both feeling like they were playing a must-win game for different reasons met in the Swamp on Saturday afternoon and only one would actually would. The other would lament another season of running in a giant circle trying to become the program that they believe they should rightfully be. Florida hosted Texas A&M in a rainy matchup of two teams who both lost home games that were statements in Week 1, crushed a nobody in Week 2, and now crossed paths in a game of huge importance to open the SEC schedule.

To the full credit of Texas A&M, this was never a contest as they blew the doors off the Gators early and won comfortably in Gainsville, 33-20, in a situation where the final score flattered the home side. It was never close and never competitive.

These are My Three Thoughts:

• Texas A&M won a road game and really there is nothing they needed more to accomplish in the first road game of the Mike Elko regime. In other words, he has never lost a road game as the Aggies coach and that streak and dubious truth can be put well to bed.