Alabama’s Stunning Loss to Texas A&M Shakes Up the College Football Playoff Picture
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Alabama’s Stunning Loss to Texas A&M Shakes Up the College Football Playoff Picture
Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher is the first former assistant of Nick Saban to defeat his former boss and delivered the Tide’s first loss to an unranked team since 2007
Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher talks fast and makes big promises: When asked in May what would happen when coach Nick Saban brought his Alabama team to Kyle Field in October, he said: “We’re going to beat his ass when they’re here, don’t worry.”
On Saturday night, the Aggies did just that. Texas A&M knocked off No. 1 Alabama 41-38 on a last-second field goal in a historic win that immediately reshaped the race to the College Football Playoff.
It was a legacy-defining victory for Fisher, who became the first of Saban’s former assistants to defeat him on the field in a collective 25 attempts. It was also Texas A&M’s first win over Alabama in College Station.
Texas A&M’s upset was a chaotic nightcap to a topsy turvy day of college football that saw two undefeated teams—No. 4 Penn State and No. 10 BYU—lose and several more barely escape. No. 19 Wake Forest needed overtime to fend off Syracuse and No. 6 Oklahoma fought back from an 18-point hole at halftime in the Red River Showdown to defeat No. 21 Texas 55-48.
The chaos is a refreshing change for a sport where the playoff field has felt all but decided by the end of September. This season, there don’t appear to be many clear front-runners, aside from No. 2 Georgia, who allowed its first rushing touchdown this week against Auburn.
No. 5 Cincinnati is making a strong push to become the first team from the American Athletic Conference to make the playoff. Three Big Ten teams remain perfect: Iowa, Michigan and Michigan State.
Alabama, of course, may still make the list: winning out would make them semifinal shoe-ins. Yet Texas A&M’s upset takes them one step further away from controlling their destiny.
Texas A&M’s win was made more impressive by the path they took to victory: This 2021 team is a far cry from the dominant squad that finished the truncated 2020 season 9-1 ranked fifth in the nation. Starting quarterback Haynes King cracked his tibia in Week 2 and his replacement, Zach Calzada, has struggled. The Aggies headed into the weekend with a disappointing 3-2 record and had slipped out of the polls.
The Crimson Tide, as usual, were rolling. They won last season’s national championship and saw most of their offense get selected on the first night of the NFL Draft and somehow reloaded to look just as solid.
That’s also why, when Saban was informed of Fisher’s barb about a butt-whooping in Texas he quipped, “What, in golf?”
Still, on his radio show on Thursday, Saban worried that Alabama was walking into “a little bit of a trap game.” Kyle Field is about as hostile as enemy SEC stadiums get, with its crowds of more than 100,000 fans that get so loud the stands sway.
The deafening noise in College Station would be the least of Saban’s concerns on Saturday. There were missed tackles and miscues, dropped balls and penalties. Young also got sacked three times in the first half—more than the offensive line had allowed in the first five games combined—plus once more after the break.
Running back Brian Robinson Jr. fumbled the ball at his team’s 44-yard line early in the game. Texas A&M capitalized with a touchdown to give the Aggies a 10-point lead.
On the next drive, Alabama quarterback Bryce Young marched the Crimson Tide down to the 1-yard line only to throw the football into the hands of Texas A&M’s Demani Richardson. Calzada threw an interception of his own on the next play, but Texas A&M’s defense limited their opponents to a field goal. Alabama trailed at the half for the first time since 2019.
It wasn’t all Alabama’s mistakes. Texas A&M got a lift from Calzada, the second-string quarterback. He completed 13 of 14 passes for two touchdowns and 183 yards in the first half. It was a remarkable deviation from his previous starts, in which he put up just 148 passing yards per game on average.
Alabama seemed to wake up in the third quarter, forcing Texas A&M to punt deep in its own territory and then barreling into the Aggies punter to dislodge the ball backward into the endzone for a touchdown. Yet on the very next play, Texas A&M’s Devon Achane returned the kickoff 96 yards to make it 31-17.
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