The Day After: Texas A&M 7, Texas Tech 35

It's over. This year's Texas A&M squad is officially a mediocre team. Franchione is gone after this season. I'm looking at the rest of the schedule, and with the possible exception of Nebraska, we're losing all our future games. That's 6-6.

Even after the Miami fiasco, there was some stupid hope in me that the Aggies weren't really that bad. All the hoopla about Franchione's VIP newsletter and all the stories about the Aggie players rallying around their coach somehow got into my brain, and it somehow fogged up the truth: this year's team is mediocre.

The worst part is having that mediocrity exposed by Texas Tech. They've got their gimmicky offense and their smug coach and their craptastic fans, and it pisses the hell out of me that we always choke when we go to Lubbock. The excruciating part is watching their offense shred our defense to pieces, and realizing yet again how far our defense has sunk since the glory days of the early '90s.

The only good thing about this game is that it finally convinced me 100% that Coach Franchione needs to be replaced. For five years I've either supported him or was on the fence about him, but now I'm at peace with the idea of having him replaced. When it comes down to it, College Station has the best fans around, and we don't deserve this.

Quick hits across the board:
-LSU needs to replace Flynn. I said in my last post that LSU looked beatable, and I'm not at all surprised that they lost to a good Kentucky team. I cannot understand for the life of me why Les Miles starts Matt Flynn when Ryan Perrilloux is waiting in the waitings. Yes, there's a 70% chance that he'll end up arrested in the next 10 years, but Flynn isn't the QB for a championship team.

-It's hard to take Pac-10 seriously. Cal's got a chance to be the #1 team after the Tigers' loss, and they respond by losing to Oregon State. It's crap that always undermines the Pac-10 in the eyes of the supposed "East Coast-biased" media.

-Oklahoma is the best team in the nation. If I had to pick a team to win the championship right now, it'd be the Sooners. Their win against a damn good Missouri team was impressive, and I'm still puzzled over their meltdown against Colorado. Bob Stoops's boys are back, and I'd take them over Ohio State, Boston College, South Florida, etc.