Why A&M Will Lose

Texas is 10-1 ranked #3 in the country and is traveling to College Station to renew a rivalry game that hasn’t been played in 13 years. A&M is 8-3 and ranked #20. Texas is a 5 point favorite. Texas won the last matchup. Texas should have ALL the pressure on them in this game. A&M should be relaxed and playing with nothing to lose. And yet they will heap so much pressure on themselves that they will collapse under the weight.

For example, they’ve set themselves up by adopting the perspective that they’ve had a 13 year head start on Texas in the SEC, so if they lose to them it means they’ve squandered an massive opportunity. They’re carrying more than a decade of history on their backs, their SEC “decision”, the future hierarchy of Texas and A&M in the SEC, getting to the SEC championship game before Texas, etc.

To them it all gets decided on Kyle Field tomorrow night. And none of that stuff matters at all. It’s all puff your chest out ego stuff. That’s Aggie in a nutshell. It’s too much. They should be shedding pressure not adding it. They’ll never win anything significant until they confront this about themselves. They’re going to lose and it will be because they choked. Watch.