Texas A&M was dead in the water at the half. Down 27 points, with every single break possible going against them, Even though they had the guys to make the plays required in the second half, the momentum of the game was so profoundly against them that it seemed like a comeback would be impossible.
In conference play, since 2004— as far as this kind of stat was available— teams were 0-286 when trailing by more than 27 points at any part of the game. The Aggies are now the lone team in the positive side of the column after today.
It's not all positive, of course— most teams that would be equipped to come back from a deficit like that are not putting themselves in the position to have to do so very often. But if we're talking about how a team has been tested and responded, there's no better example in the country of a proven program than these Aggies.
Texas A&M overcomes 27-point deficit to move to 10-0 in 2025 season
That was as disastrous of a sequence of events in the first half as I've ever seen for the Aggies, only rivaled by what we saw in the Rose Bowl in the first game of 2017. To be able to mentally move past that and put out the kind of performance that we saw in that second half is really so unbelievable that I am hardly able to comprehend that I'm typing it.
The Aggies needed to be perfect in the second half, and apart from one play on the goal line— one that looked like it was going to cost them dearly at one point in the game— they did just that. Four drives turned into four touchdowns, putting them up by one.
Time and time again, the Aggies answered the bell against this team, facing down unprecedented adversity. The defense was impeccable, as was the offense outside of one instance.
As the commentators said, this was a championship moment. This was a game that showed this is a team that can respond to anything. The ten-win barrier is something that has haunted the Aggies for some time, but they have just shattered that— how much more can they achieve?