The Day After: Texas A&M 24, Oklahoma State 23

Wow! At halftime of yesterday's game I was ready to write that the season was done. Over. Stick a fork in it. Franchione was fired at the end of the season (if not sooner), we were going to have a 5-7 season, and all hell would break loose. Then two quarters later, the Aggies had tied their greatest comeback ever, we were in sole possession of first place in the Big 12 South, and t.u. was at the bottom of the conference.

What does this all mean? Well, not much has changed. We could still go 5-7 with a crazy schedule the rest of the way. We still don't have a reliable passing game, and Mike Goodson seems to be regressing each week. We still don't include Bennett enough in the plays, and Franchione still may be a monotonous robot in disguise.

But for one week, we can enjoy the fact that the Ags pulled this one out. I mean, along with the Fresno State game, this is the kind of game that the Aggies would have lost one or two years ago. Yet in the wake of the Miami massacre and the newsletter scandal, the team somehow held on. Yes, we were 6 1/2 point favorites going into the game, but OSU was a dangerous opponent. This is a team with a high-powered offense that just hasn't lived up to its billing this season, and they were waiting to play spoiler at Kyle Field. But somehow we escaped, and now we can concentrate on the train wreck of a schedule that's looming ahead.

I'll be writing more about the upcoming games this week, but if there's one thing I want to make clear, it's this: I hate, hate Texas Tech. I would rather lose to the Longhorns rather than the Red Raiders. More to come on this.

Quick hits around the board:
-USC experienced the biggest upset ever. Some will disagree and say that it was Michigan's loss to Appalachian State, but trust me, this was bigger. Up to this point, Stanford was a pitiful, pitiful team. And they were playing with their backup quarterback who'd thrown one collegiate pass. And they were playing at USC. And they were 41 point underdogs.

-Colt McCoy is one concussion away from retirement. His grounder on the fourth down play with less than a minute to go just captured the weirdness going on with McCoy this season.

-LSU looks beatable. They beat Florida, but for three quarters the Gators looked like the better team. If they were to meet again on a neutral field for the SEC championship, I'd pick Florida without blinking. By the way, I think during the game one of the announcers mentioned that Tim Tebow bench presses 400 pounds. 400 pounds! Can our offensive lineman bench press 400 pounds?

-I hate Texas Tech.