The narrowest of margins

Catch and chase

Any thoughts of the Texas Longhorns going into College Station tonight and making mincemeat of the Texas A&M Aggies were squashed relatively early.

As it was, it was a slobberknocker of the highest order in which the Aggies probably gave their best showing of the season and if the were capable of even a modicum of defense or if they played the perfect of all perfect games in program history, they might have won.

Unfortunately, they did neither and lost, 49-39. Texas remains undefeated and eyes the Big XII Championship game and A&M heads back licking its wounds, probably feeling kinda good about themselves.

Jerrod Johnson is simply a phenomenal athlete. He damn near won that game for the Aggies. Except that he ran into an even bigger juggernaut, Colt McCoy. Johnson's a swell, raw Big XII quarterback. McCoy is world class. McCoy, right now, is on a different plain. If there were ever an opportunity for a guy to grasp control of the Heisman vote, he's doing it right now. The last two weeks have been all McCoy and I think a premier performance with the college football gaze upon him will go miles toward him winning the award.

However, the Aggies needed a perfect game. Maybe a stop or two. How about kick coverage? I'd hate to begrudge a team a couple of turnovers, but when you're playing the third best team in the nation and you're probably the 100th best team in the nation, you simply cannot turn the ball over (unless your causing another five turnovers).

I'll give the Aggies all the credit in the world: Every college football fan was watching and they had a horny, drunk crowd in their pocket and they put up a fight above all fights. Still, that fight was not enough and that's probably the case for another year or so, depending on the true trajectory of the program.