Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and Adam Breneman discuss Texas A&M's potentially devastating loss to South Carolina and the uphill battle the Aggies face to making the College Football Playoff. 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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South Carolina beats Texas A and M 44 to 20 I mean, South Carolina was shot out of the cannon early in that game.

This is a Texas A and M team that had the inside track to get to Atlanta.

They still have the opportunity to get to Atlanta.

They still have the opportunity to be a college football playoff team but Texas A and M laid a massive egg.

I've noticed this trend with Texas A and M. Marcel Reid got the start today.

Connor Wigman was the starting quarterback, Texas A and M's most dominant performances either in an entire game or in parts of games came when the defense was thrown off by the starting quarterback when defenses have an entire week to prepare for a quarterback.

And Marcel Reed wasn't named the starting quarterback until like five minutes before the game, but I think we all knew that Marcel Reed was going to get the start when defenses have an entire week to prepare for the quarterback that they expect.

Texas A and M does not look like the same football team.

We said this on last Tuesday's show.

This just felt like a game that Shane Beamer would have his guys ready to play and it just, it just felt like it.

And boy, were we?

Right?

I mean, you just knew Beamer was gonna have, sound up his sleeve.

You knew we'd have his guys ready to play and, and he did, the talk will be all about Texas A and M and how they had a huge opportunity here at blew it.

But let's give credit to Shane Beamer in, in South Carolina uh in, in, in the job he's doing there.

And yes, they've had some bad losses this year and it's a tough place to win, tough conference to win in.

But Beamer got his guys to show up in their biggest game of the year.

If you cannot convert on third and short and if you cannot stop the other team from running the football, you're gonna lose Texas A and M couldn't convert in short yardage in this game and they couldn't stop the run.

Like this is the theme for today.

This is a theme for every week.

We're, we're obsessed with what it looks like to score a bunch of points.

But at its core, at some point, you've got to sustain drives with conversions on short yardage situations.

You gotta be able to stop the run A and M couldn't do either of those.

And Caroline, I'm not as popular.

Like is there a path again?

I'll be like if we wanna be Sunshine and Roses.

Sure.

There's a path to A and M getting into the SEC championship game and winning the SEC championship game in Huzzah.

Everybody, then they get that automatic bid.

But my God, I mean, if you're looking around right now and you're just looking what, uh, what's in front of them, uh, you're talking about, they, they, they're gonna have to beat Texas and then they're gonna have to win the SEC.

They can't take another loss.

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