#Texas A&M Aggies

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College Football Playoff rankings revealed: Oregon takes top spot, who snuck into top 12?

Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Miami and Texas were the top five ranked teams Tuesday night in the first College Football Playoff rankings under a 12-team format, with No. 13 SMU, No. 14 Texas A&M and No. 15 LSU starting the championship race just outside the cutoff to make the newly expanded field. No. 12 Boise State (7-1) is the highest-ranked of the teams from outside the Power 4…

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Monday, November 27, 2023 – My Monday After Saturday College Football Awards

Monday, November 27, 2023 – My Monday After Saturday College Football Awards Win or lose every team that played this weekend gets a Great Game Award. Every fan from every team gets a Poopy Undies Award. Since it was such a wild and crazy weekend, the undies come with a portable oxygen tank. It was such a wild weekend in college football I do not know where to begin. Coaches Texas Aggies – We…

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University announced Friday that its president has resigned after a Black journalist’s celebrated hiring at one of the nation’s largest campuses unraveled following pushback over her diversity and inclusion work.

Banks has told The Texas Tribune this month that pushback had surfaced over her hiring at A&M because of her work on race and diversity in newsrooms.

McElroy’s 20-year career at the New York Times included research into the relationship between news media and race, notably in newsroom practices, Pulitzers, obituaries and sports.

McElroy did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday, but she told the Tribune that she felt, “damaged by this entire process” and that she believed she was “being judged by race, maybe gender. And I don’t think other folks would face the same bars or challenges.”

The Rudder Association, which describes itself as a collection of Texas A&M students, former students, faculty and staff who are “dedicated Aggies committed to preserving and perpetuating the core values and unique spirit of Texas A&M,” has acknowledged complaining about McElroy’s hiring to the school administrators.

“TRA believes that a department head should embrace the egalitarian and merit-based traditions that characterize Texas A&M’s values, rather than the divisive ideology of identity politics,” the group wrote last week.

McEloy’s original job offer to revive Texas A&M’s journalism program, which was celebrated on campus with a “signing party,” was later changed from a tenure-track position, to a five-year role, then to a one-year job from which she could be fired at any time.

McElroy, a 1981 Texas A&M graduate, declined the changes and the job offer, deciding instead to stay on as a professor at the University of Texas.

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Jackson says Aggies had the answers to fix their season

Jackson says Aggies had the answers to fix their season

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College football preseason roundtable: best games, breakout stars and more

College football preseason roundtable: best games, breakout stars and more

With the calendar turning to July, it’s officially time to forecast what the college football season will hold for fan bases around the country. After the most abnormal season in recent history, fans will be treated to a return to normalcy with tailgating, full stadiums and all the traditions that make the sport unique. The early season slate showcases plenty of big games with high stakes, while…

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Scouts see Day 2 draft 'upside' in A&M QB Mond

Texas A&M quarterback Kellen Mond is considered an intriguing Day 2 option for teams out of reach of the top quarterbacks in April’s draft.

“There’s upside there,” said one longtime NFC scout. “If anything I would have liked to see him let loose a little more.”

Teams are doing their research on the four-year starter. Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher tells ESPN that he’s had extensive talks with about 10-to-15 teams about Mond. Those teams value his experience and ability to lead and win games, Fisher said. Mond helped A&M win 32 games on his way to a school-record 9,661 passing yards with 71 touchdowns and 27 interceptions.

Experience could be especially important to teams who saw Mitch Trubisky and Dwayne Haskins struggle after starting one season in college.

“He does all of the things you need to judge a first-round player,” said Fisher, who has coached Mond since 2018. “He helped change the culture — winning more games, taking a stand, showing he’s a guy who can fight through adversity, took criticism, eliminated any distractions and continued to get better.”

Scouts say Mond has plenty of arm and athleticism but probably looked for the check down too often. They believe he can go vertical and play less conservative. Fisher said Mond’s biggest area for improvement is timing on intermediate throws, but he’s come a long way there. Fisher adds he gave Mond all the responsibility a quarterback could handle, from setting protections to audibles to deciphering third and fourth reads post-snap.

As a senior, Mond completed 188-of-297 passes (63.3 percent) for 2,282 yards and 19 touchdowns and three interceptions. Mond, Florida’s Kyle Trask and Stanford’s Davis Mills are part of the second tier outside the five surefire first-round quarterbacks.

“He’s vastly improved every year,” Fisher said. “Look at the body of work, the competition he’s played against. He really worked his mechanics, has done a great job with his body, his core footwork and balance – that allows him to be so much more efficient. He studies the game, learns very well – an intelligent young man, understands concepts and attacks coverage. He started having fun with it once he grabbed a hold of the offense, where he was the first one on the plane breaking down film with me after a game.”

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Texas A&M Rallies for Orange Bowl Win Over North Carolina

Texas A&M Rallies for Orange Bowl Win Over North Carolina

Devon Achane had two late touchdown runs, including a 76-yarder with 3:44 left that put Texas A&M ahead to stay, and the fifth-ranked Aggies beat No. 14 North Carolina 41-27 in the Orange Bowl on Saturday night to cap a winless bowl season for the Atlantic Coast Conference. Kellen Mond passed for 232 yards and ran for a score for the Aggies (9-1), who were in the Orange Bowl for the first time…

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Predicting the first 12-team College Football Playoff selection committee rankings

The first College Football Playoff rankings will be revealed Tuesday night (7 p.m. ET), and once again I’ll be using my projections model to try to predict how the selection committee will rank the teams each week. I’ve studied metrics that have been valued by the committee in the past, and after some guess and check, I found a formula that tested well compared to the actual rankings. There are…

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Friday, November 24, 2023 – Snarky Friday Slip Sliding Away

Friday, November 24, 2023 – Snarky Friday Slip Sliding Away I do hope your yesterday was filled with family, friends, food, fun, and football and you gave thanks for all. My apologies for being late. I was doing my Black Friday shopping. Packages will arrive on Tuesday. Was looking for possible engagement gifts for Taylor and Travis. It is Rivalry Weekend. For many fans that means – At last…

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Week 5 will start revealing what’s real or fake for Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Georgia The good news about Week 5: 18 ranked teams are in action. By 2020's standards, that's pretty fantastic.

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Texas A&M Lowers Stadium Capacity To 25% After Initially Setting It At 30%

Texas A&M Lowers Stadium Capacity To 25% After Initially Setting It At 30%

Texas A&M has already walked back the amount of people expected at football games during the 2020 season.

The Aggies had initially said 30% of Kyle Field would be full during the coronavirus pandemic. However, that didn’t last long at all. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)

According to a late Wednesday afternoon report from Brett McMurphy,…

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Jackson says Texas A&M found success on defense

Jackson says Texas A&M found success on defense

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WNBA 2020: Best 25 players age 25-and-under

WNBA 2020: Best 25 players age 25-and-under

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The WNBA is a veteran-led league, but there’s also a lot of promising young talent, including the much-anticipated return of 2018 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart. The…

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NCAA penalizes Texas A&M football for violations Texas A&M football was placed on one year probation and coach Jimbo Fisher was given a six-month show-cause order after he and the football program were found to have violated NCAA recruiting and athletic-related activity rules.

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College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: Could Deion Sanders, Colorado sneak into field?

On Saturday, while Deion Sanders and Colorado sat at home and Travis Hunter did a Heisman Trophy media tour of national pregame shows, the Buffaloes were among the biggest winners in the College Football Playoff race. Iowa State lost at home to Texas Tech and trimmed the list of undefeated Big 12 teams to just one. Not long after, Kansas State tripped up in Houston, suffering its second Big 12…