Texas A&M Football schedule: 5 toughest games in the 2018 season
By Jeff Shull
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The defending national champions have quite the quarterback controversy, but not in the traditional sense.
On the one hand, you have a guy who has a 27-2 record as the starting quarterback (26-2 if you don’t count the national championship, though he did technically start in a win) and improved in every metric from his freshman to his sophomore season.
On the other, you have a guy who was a five-star recruit and came in the second half of the freaking national championship game to lead an amazing come-from-behind victory against a dominant Georgia defense and had one of the sweetest walk-off touchdown passes in the history of college football.
Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa are currently competing for the job. Saban has yet to officially announce a starter, but it truly will not make a difference who starts. Hurts is 2-0 against A&M, including a 33-14 win in his freshman year at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Tagovailoa, should he get the start, is a prolific passer and could give Alabama it’s best offense ever under Saban.
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They are completely stacked everywhere around the quarterback, as is typical of Saban’s teams. To knock them off will take something special. Does A&M have it in them? Time will tell.
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