The Day After: Texas A&M 34, Baylor 10

As much as anyone could give a rat's ass about beating Baylor, I figured I should at least have a paragraph. We dominated Baylor, and we should have scored more points than we did. Baylor's passing yards were less than 200 yards which might seem like an impressive job by our secondary, but I also saw that Baylor's receivers dropped 10 balls: Considering that Kyle Wright burned us last week by going for something ridiculous like 21-26, I'd say that God picked the wrong weekend to be on the side of the Aggie secondary. Other than that, I really don't have much to say. I mean, it's Baylor. Yes, they came in with a winning record, yes, they have kept it close against the Aggies the last couple of years, and yes, they won in overtime a couple of years ago, but they're still Baylor--the toe fungi of the Big 12.

The bigger news is that Oklahoma and t.u. lost this weekend. I've seen that some news articles are pointing out that if the Aggies beat OSU next weekend, we'll be in first place in the Big 12 South, but let's be realistic: even if that happened, it's not going to last for us. I don't like to be a pessimist, but I still can't get the Miami game out of my head.

So rather than talking about how great it'd be to in first place next weekend, it's just a great time to enjoy the fact that t.u. got the shit kicked out of them by Kansas State. They haven't looked good all year, and I've been dying to see something like this happen. The best part is that Colt McCoy looked horrible out there. There's always been something about Colt that's pissed the hell out of me, but I can't quite figure it out. Maybe it's the fact that he looks like Opie but with a male pornstar name, or that if he'd traded shoes with Stephen McGee, McGee would be putting up Playstation numbers, but there's always been something about McCoy that always puts me a bad mood.

Speaking of McGee, in case you didn't catch this article, during the post-conference of the Baylor game he defended Coach Franchione and declared that he'd back him until death. It's stuff like that leaves me willing to commit a minor felony for McGee anytime, and why I'm proud to be an Aggie. You can say what you want about Frachione or our unbalanced offense or that we're entering the part of the season where things can get real ugly, but there is no quarterback out there who has the toughness or leadership that McGee does. Every time I see him out there, I keep wondering what it could have been if he just had some wide receivers, a coaching staff who knew how to make use of his talent, and an O-line that lived up to its ballyhooed billing.