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NET is a predictive efficiency ranking with a super-secret fudge factor built in to give teams a bit of extra credit for certain wins. Therefore it is almost the same exact thing that KenPom is and that is why they are pretty much the same.

As such NET is no more influential in determining who deserves to be in the NCAA Tournament than any other efficiency metric. It just tells you which teams have scored the most points per possession and allowed the fewest adjusted for location and opponent. They are "predictive" in the sense that they tell you who can be expected to win a future game based on each teams past efficiency.

The biggest factor in whether a team deserves to make the NCAA Tournament is the results or "Resume." This is "who did you actually beat and who did you lose to, and what was the location of those games."

You can't really just use an efficiency ranking like NET alone, because an efficiency ranking relegates the most important stat, wins and losses, to a secondary status. An SEC team in a weird year like this year could go 0-16 and if they lost every game by one single point, their efficiency or NET rankings would actually look good because they would seem like they are just as good as Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, A&M, Kentucky, etc etc. The reality though, would be that they beat nobody.

The main purpose of the NET ranking is to judge the quality of those wins and losses and therefore have a greater understanding of the Resume. Knowing that Team A went 1-0 and Team B went 1-0 tells you nothing. But combined with a predictive rating like NET, you can judge the results and see that Team A beat the team expected to be the 5th best in the country on the road, while Team B beat #117 at home.

Thats where all the dividing up wins into Quads comes in which helps them judge resumes that consist of 30+ games for each team.

You better shoot an ungodly percentage if your opponents takes 33% more shot attempts than you do. A&M had 15 more shots, and also five extra free throw attempts. OU got blown out on the glass and in turnover margin. That one dude being unconscious almost won it for them.

Florida did get called for holding against us, so its not "none of A&M's SEC opponents"

Opposing linemen havent been called for holding since the second quarter of our game against Bowling Green in week 4.

All "Power 4" games it says. Literally that wouldn't include Notre Dame, but presumably it actually does.

You can tell how much A&M's offense is run skewed. They do very well in the rushing offense chart, not as well, but still positive overall in the passing chart, but put it together and its negative in total offense, because we're running the ball more when we play, while their average yards per play vs other teams includes more pass which generally have a higher expected yards per play.

Has Alabama lost their calendar?

Assuming that this dubious claim was correct, the easiest way to ensure that this rematch doesnt happen would be to make sure Texas loses again.

Texas A&M has played 8 games. Weigman has played 16 quarters and Reed has played 16 quarters.

Conner Weigman played but injured his shoulder against Notre Dame, and aggravated it prior to the Florida game where Reed got the start. Weigman then took several weeks recover, before returning from injury for Missouri.

Marcel Reed was never "benched," Weigman just came back, and A&M has won all 5 games Reed played in this year, and he has 11 total touchdowns, vs no turnovers. Reed has played very well, but he hasn't shown the type of ceiling that Weigman is capable of. Reed has been game manager, protected the ball, moved the chains with his legs. He hasn't been like the superstar qb that some already want to make him out to be. A&M's defense and running game is good enough though, that we can win with play like that, but you're not going to if the alternative is Weigman having a terrible game instead of a good one.

Maybe he meant to contact BDSM Aggies.

Also nobody wants to see an empty Tiger Stadium because its "too hot" or whatever

A&M's running backs had 110 yards on 19 carries before Marcel Reed even entered the game.