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The Ags hung in there against some of Texas' world-beater teams in the past - including VY and Colt led teams. They play their best against Texas at Kyle, so nothing's guaranteed.

Yes, sometimes the Texas OL has a brain cramp. More recently, though, is we get last season's Quinn who had to double check every read he made. He was almost always correct initially, but the extra time he took to verify it would ruin a play. It seems defensive coordinators noticed that, and started throwing naked blitzes at him. Those blitzes would leave hot receivers running free for almost certain TDs if they got the ball. The DCs were counting on Quinn to take that extra second to "be sure", and thus self-sack. UGA did it over and over again (in addition to having a defense capable of overwhelming the OL by itself).

Sark's plays pull the defense apart. It frustrates me when fans complain about "run the ball" and such, because each formation has a run and a pass built in. The offense does what the defense is weak against. Currently, defenses are trying to stack against the run, so there's lots of passing. Hopefully, after Saturday, DCs will start to respect Quinn again and vary their alignments.

The Ags hung in there against some of Texas' world-beater teams in the past - including VY and Colt led teams. They play their best against Texas at Kyle, so nothing's guaranteed.

Yes, sometimes the Texas OL has a brain cramp. More recently, though, is we get last season's Quinn who had to double check every read he made. He was almost always correct initially, but the extra time he took to verify it would ruin a play. It seems defensive coordinators noticed that, and started throwing naked blitzes at him. Those blitzes would leave hot receivers running free for almost certain TDs if they got the ball. The DCs were counting on Quinn to take that extra second to "be sure", and thus self-sack. UGA did it over and over again (in addition to having a defense capable of overwhelming the OL by itself).

Sark's plays pull the defense apart. It frustrates me when fans complain about "run the ball" and such, because each formation has a run and a pass built in. The offense does what the defense is weak against. Currently, defenses are trying to stack against the run, so there's lots of passing. Hopefully, after Saturday, DCs will start to respect Quinn again and vary their alignments.

Hung in there = loss.  I'm not expecting us to lose by a lot, but objectively looking at this Texas A&M team we're just not really that good, we just played a soft schedule with a couple of "name" schools that are down.  

It will be a good game, of course, something like 27-24, and will be contested right up until the last whistle.  What really sucks is that with 'Bama being down (if you count 2 losses as being down) and us avoiding playing them it was the perfect timing in the new SEC.  

What was lame is that wasn't even Mike the Tiger.  The veterinary school has a more final authority in his matters than the governor, it appears, and Mike still isn't allowed at games so the athletic department brought in a privately owned tiger to be on the sidelines.

For all we know, that imposter could've been rooting for Bama.  Can't have been good for the vibes.

Probably easier to have a bulldog mascot.

Bengals have been extremely endangered for a while, and LSU is active in global efforts to preserve them.  In fact, the last few Mikes have not been true Bengals, rather a mix of Bengal and Siberian tiger, because a Bengal was not available.  I believe the rationale was games were an unnecessary stress for him and so they were axed.  Don't know if that had anything to do with preservation efforts.

Bayou Siberians doesn't have the same ring to it. 

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