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Texas A&M can get vengeance this weekend for most lopsided game they've ever played

The nightmare 2022 season included this gem that is often forgotten about.
ByGraham Harmon|
Nov 5, 2022; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies quarterback Haynes King (13) throws a pass in the second half against the Florida Gators at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images
Nov 5, 2022; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies quarterback Haynes King (13) throws a pass in the second half against the Florida Gators at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images | Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images

This weekend's game for the Texas A&M Aggies against the Florida Gators represents several things— the end to the first half of the season, the chance to remain undefeated, a further proving grounds for this team— and chief among those factors is a chance to settle the score from the last time the Gators were in Kyle Field.

The Aggies are currently 1-2 against Florida in College Station since joining the SEC, with their most memorable game coming in 2020, when a back-and-forth offensive shootout ended with Texas A&M winning 41-38 on a walk-off field goal. But the Gators returned two years later and took home a win— something that UF fans have been memorializing quite a bit in this week leading up to the game.

That's not out of the ordinary, of course— but what is out of the ordinary is basically everything about the game in question, at least on the Aggies' side. That contest is one that many A&M fans have wiped from their memories, as it was very near to the nadir of a season that was by far the worst since A&M joined the SEC.

Texas A&M can get Kyle Field retribution this weekend with victory over Florida

When you consider the long list of things that went wrong in 2022, right near the top was the freakish confluence of events that led to the Aggies missing nearly half of their two-deep against the Florida Gators in early November:

A hobbled Haynes King started the game for the Aggies after Conner Weigman (and many other players) came down with the flu and were unable to go. His backup, according to this article from the day of the game, was current All-American Vanderbilt TE Eli Stowers.

Seriously, take a look at how bad this was for the Aggies:

With all this in mind, it was more shocking that the Aggies actually went into the half tied with the Gators. They were unable to keep pace at all in the second half, as you might expect, leading to a Gator win.

Texas A&M has beaten UF since that point, defeating them down in the Swamp last season in Marcel Reed's first-ever start, but this will be the Gators' first trip to Kyle since that point. The record needs to be set right— and a win this weekend would do just that.

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