After over two hundred days of waiting, Texas A&M fans have been rewarded for their long slog through the offseason with maybe the worst camera work we've ever seen in a major college football game. Citing lightning in the area as a reason for a limited crew, ESPN has chosen to all but abandon the notion of actually showing about 90% of the action on the field.
Their updated score bug is pretty nice and sleek-looking, but when you have only one camera angle you're showing that makes you feel like you're in the nosebleeds, the graphic ends up covering a lot of what is actually going on on the field.
The end result here is some pretty angry Aggie fans— especially when it is apparently the case that Texas A&M's meterology department has not detected any lightning at all, yet ESPN is still choosing to not add the normal camera angles.
Texas A&M fans angry after ESPN opens first Aggie game with horrible camera work
Fans were... less than enthused at this development, and they were letting ESPN know about it on social media.
ESPN cut this bs. Either the players and all 110,000 fans should also seek shelter due to lightning or your camera operators can do your job
— c (@Chase13167253) August 30, 2025
I’ve already got a headache from squinting to see the game.
— JimmyB (@jamesbrockmire) August 30, 2025
This TV coverage sux
— Bill (@drillengr) August 30, 2025
You can get a better view of the field from the Space Station than ESPN.
— Football Insider (@Insider_CFB) August 30, 2025
Paired with the less-than-satisfactory play on the field up until this point, you have a pretty irate group of Aggie fans so far.
Hopefully, ESPN will resume full coverage once their lightning alert goes away and Aggie fans won't have to stand two inches away from their TV screens to see what is going on. For now, though, there's a fair few disgruntled Aggie fans given the way things have transpired up until this point.