Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz react to the Aggies' 41-10 drubbing of the Tigers and discuss the state of both teams in the SEC. Subscribe to the “College Football Power Hour” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.

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This one started with a questionable no P I call on Missouri's first drive in Missouri's luck never turned around since then.

It was all.

Aggie Texas A and M takes down the number nine team in the country.

The Missouri time 41 to 10 after a last minute field goal, kept it at least a little bit closer fits in this one.

Is it more about Missouri getting their first loss of the season?

A top 10 team in the country or Texas A and M making a statement like that.

And this is big time on Missouri who just isn't good enough and Missouri hasn't been good enough all year.

I don't know why we've been swimming in the seas.

The benefit of the doubt from Missouri through the course of this season.

They just have not passed the dreaded eye test week in and week out and I can't get that bandy game out of my head.

And what do we see today team?

Very reminiscent of that bandy game.

You'll see a big play and then all of a sudden they just disappear, the talent is there, but they couldn't put drives together, they couldn't put anything to stay in together.

They couldn't get any pressure.

They looked lost on this field, they got dominated because guess what, I don't care what the number is next to Missouri's name on the charts.

They are not a top 10 team.

They are not, they were grossly overestimated in the preseason and I think we've all been holding on to those preseason expectations.

Missouri came in to this matchup against Texas A and M with a top 20 run defense and fits Texas A and M ran all over them.

But a reminder in a 12 team playoff, Missouri's playoff hopes are still very firmly ahead of them.

They don't have an overwhelmingly difficult schedule, especially by SEC uh terms, but, uh, not a good look for Missouri moving forward, but at the end of the day, let's be real.

This is a battle for fifth place in the SEC because Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia are all staggeringly better than either of these teams were that we saw today.

So we can have all of the hype we want around it.

But Caroline, let's be honest here, this is a battle for fifth place at best if everything breaks right.

And frankly, the fifth best team in the SEC very well could be a playoff team in this new era.

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