The TAMU Aggies' 10-3 loss to the Miami Hurricanes at home this past weekend is already a memorable College Football Playoff game. In College Station, Texas, it's for anything but the right reasons.
TAMU just had to get the ball to its two 900-plus-yard receivers, KC Concepcion and Mario Craver, to have a chance of beating the underdog Canes. Craver had seven catches for 92 yards, but Concepcion had 33 yards on four receptions. Marcel Reed threw seven passes of 10 or more yards of his 25 completions. To say "The U" had Reed handled with Jakobe Thomas, former Auburn Tiger Keionte Scott, and, especially, Bryce Fitzgerald leading the charge is an understatement.
It was checkdown city at Kyle Field. To A Sea of Blue's Samuel Hahn, it was the kind of football that makes one think of the Kentucky Wildcats' 10-3 win over the Tigers at Jordan-Hare Stadium back on November 1 that had Hugh Freeze fired the next day.
"Well, A&M better fear and tremble before Aggie Nation because they put out one of the biggest duds in the history of the playoff. Even James Madison and Tulane scored more points than the Aggies, and despite holding their opponent to just points and watching them miss not one, not two, but three field goals, they lost 10 to 3 in front of all 104,122 of those fans," Hahn wrote.
"Three points!! That’s what got Hugh Freeze fired from Auburn against Kentucky! Very sour end to an 11-0 start."
Narrow win against Auburn will forever be used against Aggies
The Aggies' 2025 regular season has been invalidated in one fell swoop. Their defense was stellar, but the offensive game plan following Collin Klein's hiring to become the new head coach of the Kansas State Wildcats was that of a man working two jobs simultaneously.
Barely beating Freeze's Tigers will forever be held against them, as will their nine other meaningless win to go along with their lone meaningful triumph against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
It doesn't help anything that TAMU only scored more points against Auburn than Kentucky, the South Alabama Jaguars, and the Ball State Cardinals in 2025.