Texas A&M vs LSU is hands-down one of the weekend's biggest games in college football, so fans everywhere knew it would be one of the featured picks on College Gameday. With Texas A&M favored in this one and the Aggies' program trending in a very positive way compared to the Tigers, the Aggie faithful knew that A&M would be a popular choice— but A&M wasn't a clean sweep.
The guest picker for today's College Gameday show, which is up in Nashville for Vanderbilt-Missouri, was Commodore fan and famous comedian Nate Bargatze. He was providing laughs all throughout his appearance, from his appeal to five-star Georgia QB commit Jared Curtis to flip to Vandy to his questionable command of geography.
Nate Bargatze said he picked NDSU because Mt. Rushmore is in North Dakota. Nobody on the GameDay set corrected him. The internet is oddly quiet too, leading me to believe a large portion of the country does not know where Mt. Rushmore is. https://t.co/CUN0yxZkiG
— Dylan McLemore (@voiceofD) October 25, 2025
Bargatze was the lone member of the panel to choose the Tigers over the Aggies, saying that LSU hung close with the "best team in the country" last week (an obvious reference to his own Vanderbilt fandom), and that he was picking the Tigers in a blowout. This was clearly a bit tongue-in-cheek and got a lot of laughs from the crowd, but Bargatze also did the Aggies a solid in a roundabout way.
Texas A&M saved from College Gameday jinx by Nate Bargatze's LSU pick
A common joke from college football fans is the so-called "Gameday jinx," where, if your game is not particularly seen as a blowout opportunity yet your team is a clean sweep pick by the panel, the other team goes on to win straight up a surprising amount of the time.
Of course, this is probably just selection bias, but there's at least a perceived pattern here. The Aggies avoided this by Bargatze selecting the Bayou Bengals, whether or not he was doing so in jest.
There's no real, tangible impact on the game, but this at least is not a damper on the vibes around the Aggie fanbase right now— vibes that are currently at an all-time high. Hopefully, the Aggies can capitalize on those vibes and take home a huge win in Baton Rouge, proving wrong Bargatze's pick and proving right everyone else on the panel.