1. Was Texas A&M really the fourth-best team?
I sort of thought so in the debate for the College Football Playoff, but what’s done is done, there was no right answer, and Alabama deserved to be in the national title game no matter what.
This game didn’t prove anything after the fact. Notre Dame got in, Texas A&M didn’t, and whatever … Texas A&M won the Orange Bowl.
It was easy to dismiss the Aggies as stodgy, or not that great, or overrated because of its style – and the social media world was happy to do that in the first half – but this was Texas A&M. This is what it does.
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— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) January 3, 2021
In the end, the Aggies were this close to getting into the College Football Playoff, it’s only loss was on the road to a devastating Alabama team that – by the way – still had Jaylen Waddle, who caught five passes for 142 yards and a score in the 52-24 win.
It might not have always been scintillating, and there might not have been that second amazing win on the slate to get the Aggies that fourth spot, but 9-1 with an Orange Bowl win is a very, very nice step forward for a program that has everything in place to do this on a regular basis.
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