Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz & Adam Breneman recap how Texas A&M lead a second half surge to win their 7th straight game. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Lsu and Texas A and M face off and Kyle Field and Texas A and M takes it 38 to 23.

The crazy thing to me, Adam is in the first half.

It really felt like LSU had complete control over this game.

They missed some opportunities, kicked field goals when they couldn't run it into the end zone with some special teams, miss cues, maybe some penalties that push them back behind the sticks, but still had control over it.

And it was just a complete unraveling in the second half.

I thought Gary NBA played really well in the first half of this game and controlled the game well, was accurate with the football made good decisions, but second half completely unraveled, had the two interceptions in the second half.

And then when Texas A and M made that quarterback change and put Marcel Reed to lead their lead their offense throughout the rest of the game, that is where the momentum shifted completely and Marcel Reed with his ability to run the football ramp three touchdowns in this game, uh, was two for two passing, just added some new life to this Texas A and M offense that had been struggling as much as we talk about the quarterbacks.

Just look at the numbers on the running game and it's pretty staggering.

I mean, it felt bad, but it looks even worse if you look at a and mrf 49 rushing attempts for 242 yards compared to 23 rushing attempts for LSU for 24 yards.

Like, I don't think you could tell in a game that was close, going into the fourth quarter.

You can't tell me that the proper game plan was not thrown 50 passes.

Like that's just you, they lost all attempt to balance because they simply couldn't run the football and then you, you become that 11 dimensional against the defensive line, they can absolutely attack you from the inside and the outside, you're going to make mistakes and that, that just, it reared its head over and over and over again.

I, I didn't feel like the game plan was balanced enough to put them in the right situation.

And part of that, if you can't run the ball, you can't run the ball.

But my God, you got to have a better answer than that.

But credit to Texas A and M for making those adjustments at halftime and for Mike Elko to acknowledge that Connor Wigman is not giving us what we need.

And Marcel Reed is the exact offensive spark that we're going to need moving forward because he was.

Exactly right.

That's exactly what Marcel Reed was for this Texas A and M team.

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