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Texas A&M Football: The Ten Biggest Moments of the 2016 Season

By Matthew Bartlett

Sep 17, 2016; Auburn, AL, USA; Texas A&M Aggies receiver Josh Reynolds (11) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the second quarter at Jordan Hare Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Reed-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 17, 2016; Auburn, AL, USA; Texas A&M Aggies receiver Josh Reynolds (11) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the second quarter at Jordan Hare Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Reed-USA TODAY Sports /
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Through the highs and lows of a long season, the 2016 Texas A&M football team gave us plenty of memorable moments worth reliving and a few we’d rather forget. Here are the top ten most significant plays, both good and bad, of 2016.

10. Josh Reynolds‘ second touchdown against Kansas State

With less than eight minutes to go in the Advocare V100 Texas Bowl  the Aggies trailed by 12 points. Josh Reynolds was already having a career day. Then he caught his second touchdown of the game, cutting the deficit to five points.

Kansas State quarterback Jesse Ertz had just led a six minute touchdown drive capped off with a one yard rushing touchdown of his own. That score created the largest deficit of the game for Texas A&M. The Aggies needed an answer if they were going to have any hope of pulling out the victory.

Then Trevor Knight completed three passes for 75 yards and a touchdown in just over one minute of play. That included Reynolds’ second touchdown of the day. The Aggies weren’t playing their best game on either side of the ball, but that didn’t stop Reynolds from going off.

Following the touchdown, Reynolds would catch one more pass for 17 yards. That reception broke the All-Time Texas A&M bowl record for receptions (11) which Reynolds had set himself the previous season against Louisville in the Music City Bowl.

Had the result been different folks would be pointing to that drive as the moment that the Aggies seized the momentum and began their comeback. The Aggies lost, but that touchdown was an emphatic exclamation point on a tremendous Aggie career.