First of all - congrats on a great season. Aggie surprised everyone.

To be fair though, this season was an anomaly in the SEC. Part of what makes this conference the best is the gauntlet that is usually 3-4 highly ranked teams on your conference schedule each year. Add in another couple for OOC and/or cross divisional opponent so that by year end you've faced 5-6 ranked opponents. It would usually be incredibly difficult to not only win all of these games, but really just to stay healthy enough to field a NC caliber team.

Aggie had the benefit of coming into the SEC in a rebuilding year for Bama, a year for LSU plagued by injuries and off the field issues, and dumpster fires at Arkie and Auburn. We won't know how competitive Aggie can really be until order is restored and all of these teams are back to normal. Right now they should just count themselves lucky that they get to ease their way into the conference and only need to deal with a few NC level teams each year.

Until that happens and Aggie dominates no one will be afraid of A&M. But as cocky as their fans are, that game will probably be circled on everyone's calendar so I'm sure they'll get the best everyone has to offer next year - it might not be the usual gauntlet, but it could be a taste of what's to come.