The primary third of the season was very profitable for Texas A&M.
The No. 6 Aggies are 4-0 for the primary time since 2016, they usually have matched their highest rating within the AP ballot over the previous 4 seasons.
The subsequent check comes Saturday evening towards Mississippi State in Faculty Station, Texas.
“What I might say about our gamers is it has been a tough go for the children which have been on this program for 4 years,” second-year Aggies coach Mike Elko stated. “They’re studying that they’ve the power to regulate the outcomes of video games, and that is a strong mindset.”
The Aggies beat then-No. 8 Notre Dame 41-40 on the highway two weeks in the past and received their Southeastern Convention opener towards Auburn 16-10 at house final Saturday.
Texas A&M held the Tigers to 177 complete yards and did not enable a conversion on 13 third downs or two fourth downs.
However there stays room for enchancment.
Texas A&M was penalized 13 occasions for 119 yards towards Auburn, per week after being penalized 13 occasions for 86 yards.
“It is one thing that we’ve to get fastened and addressed,” Elko stated of the infractions. “We cannot proceed to win video games if we do not resolve that downside.”
The Aggies confirmed extra self-discipline of their first two video games of the season, committing seven penalties in a gap win towards UTSA and solely 5 the next week towards Utah State.
Though Texas A&M may by no means set up a snug lead towards Auburn, senior operating again Le’Veon Moss helped the Aggies keep in management by dashing for 139 yards and scoring the staff’s solely landing.
Mississippi State (4-1, 0-1 SEC) is coming off its first lack of the season, 41-34 in extra time towards visiting Tennessee final Saturday. The Bulldogs are nonetheless searching for their first convention win underneath second-year coach Jeff Lebby.
Even so, Lebby stated the staff confirmed “a ton of development” within the loss to the then-No. 15 Volunteers, the Bulldogs’ closest SEC defeat in his tenure.
“The factor that I used to be most pleased with was, unquestionably, how issues had gone from play one to play 87,” Lebby stated. “Our guys continued to play and believed that we have been profitable the soccer recreation the whole time. There was nice vitality.”
Fluff Bothwell had his second consecutive 100-yard dashing recreation, ending with 134 yards and his fifth and sixth dashing touchdowns of the season.
The Bulldogs are set to play their first recreation outdoors of Mississippi. They started the season with a highway victory towards Southern Miss earlier than taking part in 4 consecutive house video games.
Lebby stated the timing of the go to to Faculty Station is “fairly good” as a result of Mississippi State has an open date subsequent week earlier than visiting Florida per week later.
“I feel the best factor about occurring the highway on this convention is we have 74 guys getting on the aircraft to go play in entrance of over 100,000 individuals,” Lebby stated. “It is about us being all in and having the suitable mindset and mentality to go play one play at a time and provides us one of the best likelihood to go win.”
–Area Stage Media
