Texas A&M football has held consistent at the number 3 ranking since the College Football Playoff committee began releasing their rankings earlier this month. In that time, though, the Aggies have proven the committee foolish two times already— but Aggie fans shouldn’t be optimistic that they’ll change their tune.
Things have not trended well with the committee in either of the past two weeks, and the Aggie faithful should expect that to continue. The committee hasn’t done right by the Aggies yet this year, and they will do so least of all when they have convenient talking points to use against A&M.
Despite crediting Indiana for their comeback win against Penn State last week, there’s almost no doubt that the committee will use A&M’s comeback against them. They’ve taken the glass-half-empty approach with the Aggies every single time this year when they can do so.
Texas A&M fans should hold no hope that College Football Playoff committee will do the right thing for them
What would be beyond the pale, of course, is if the committee dropped the Aggies below Georgia. The Bulldogs got a big win over Texas at home this week, but that loss to Alabama earlier in the year still looms large. The Aggies are still undefeated and have proven themselves worthy time and time again.
The sad thing is that this is not all that unrealistic— even with Texas A&M's biggest hater on the committee now out the door. You already saw plenty of AP voters putting the Bulldogs ahead of the Aggies in the most recent rankings, though most kept their heads in that regard.
It’s been made clear that the Aggies will be done absolutely zero favors by this committee. Texas A&M fans should look on tonight as they have every week up until this point: with the operative assumption being that this committee will find every way possible to ding the Aggies and discount any positives they can. I expect the third ranking again, but sadly wouldn’t be surprised if A&M dropped to four.