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Texas A&M football knows what it must do to make the SEC title game and ultimately the College Football Playoff:
Just keep winning.
The Aggies did just that Saturday by dominating dominated New Mexico State at home. Quarterback Marcel Reed threw for 268 yards and two touchdowns and running back Amari Daniels had 84 yards on just five carries on only one half of work.
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Elsewhere in Week 12, in the SEC Georgia defeated Tennessee in a matchup of two CFP contenders and BYU fell to Kansas. Will either of those results matter for the Aggies? What is A&M’s best path to the 12-team field?
Texas A&M will next travel to face a struggling Auburn (4-6, 1-5) team on the road. The Tigers beat Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday and has lost three games by one possession. Not to mention, A&M was already upset on the road this season by South Carolina, which dented their perfect conference record and erased much of the team’s margin for error.
Regardless, Mike Elko’s team is one of few in the country that controls its destiny ahead of the final College Football Playoff rankings Dec. 8. They have work to, being ranked 15th in last week’s CFP rankings.
Let’s take a look at what this week’s results mean for Texas A&M:
What Georgia’s win means for Texas A&M
A&M’s path to the playoff is a bit more convoluted than fellow first-place team Texas’ — one could argue A&M has the better in-conference wins among the two. It’s still hard to see a two-loss Aggies team making the field of 12.
The Georgia-Tennessee result was a tad more consequential for the Aggies. Had Tennessee won, Georgia would be knocked out of the at-large conversation that A&M could be hurtling toward. But with Tennessee being relegated to the mass of two-loss SEC teams and Georgia now owning the…
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Author : Austin American-Statesman
Publish date : 2024-11-17 07:44:23
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