Let's put it this way. I think we compete. I don't think this is 2021 Bama, or 2020 Clemson, or the ACCCG vs Clemson where the games are just men against boys and they're essentially over before they even start. I will be very surprised if they just steamroll us like those teams did, simply because I feel that we're better on the lines than we've been (but not nearly good enough yet), we're better coached than we've been, and A&M doesn't have the horses on offense to completely flatten us.
I think we will struggle with their defense a lot. I have been kinda hinting for a while at what these guys are saying....I'm not quite ready to put TVD into the elite QB tier. I don't think we'll be able to move their front 7 and run the ball with a ton of success, and I don't think TVD is a matchup proof Heisman type player who elevates a lesser talented team. I think he's a very good player with a very big arm, but he looks a half a second slow in the new offense to me, and I don't see any explosive pass catchers around him. So I don't think we're just going to go up and down the field on a very good SEC defense.
However, I think we'll be pretty successful when we're on defense. I think Jimbo is stuck in 1994, I think King is average and his confidence is shot, and I think they're very inefficient overall. So I expect the low scoring game that Vegas does. I think that, when we're putting 4 fingers to the sky at around 11:30 eastern Saturday night, they'll be confident and excited 4's, and not the sad 4's we've seen seemingly every time we've played a ranked team out of conference in the past several years. We're gonna have a shot in the 4th quarter. If we're not winning, it'll be a 1 score game.
I think we can roll if we get a few bounces to go our way. And I think, win or lose, we compete for 60 minutes and it's a hard fought game. That's all I can really say for what I fully expect.
