Texas A&M football schedule is tougher than a $2 steak

The Texas A&M Aggies find themselves ranked inside the top-25, but that may not be for long, as their 2019 season schedule has been tougher than a $2 steak.

Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will the national powerhouse many expected Jimbo Fisher would turn the Texas A&M Aggies in the 2020s. The former Florida State Seminoles head coach is in his second season in College Station. Usually, that’s when a traditional power or a program with so much in-state talent pops when given the right coach. However, that hasn’t happened in 2019.

Fortunately for Fisher and the Aggies’ program, that’s not entirely his fault. Texas A&M enters play on Saturday as the No. 24 team in the AP Poll at 7-3 (4-2). With a bowl win, the Aggies even have a shot at getting to 10 wins. However, that dream of a double-digit win season is about as unrealistic as possible. That’s because the Aggies’ 2019 schedule is tougher than a $2 steak.

Texas A&M has three losses on the year and all are to teams ranked inside of the top-25 of the latest College Football Playoff Rankings, a top-25 that the Aggies are not going to crack the rest of the way. They have a road loss to the No. 3 Clemson Tigers, a home loss to the No. 15 Auburn Tigers and a home loss to the No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide.

For most teams, that would be a brutal three games to have on the schedule. Those three defeats, as well as not having a quality win on the schedule is why the seven-win Aggies find themselves on the outside looking in at top-25 of the latest College Football Playoff Rankings. And it’s only about to get worse for the Aggies…

Texas A&M has two more SEC games left on the regular-season slate. They just so happen to be against two of the four best teams in the country: at the No. 4 Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday and at the No. 1 LSU Tigers in two weeks. You’re not going to get five opponents on a regular-season schedule as tough as that by any stretch of the imagination.

Georgia clinched its third-straight SEC East division title last week down on The Plains vs. cross-divisional rival Auburn in the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. With a win over the worst team in the SEC in the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday, LSU will win its first SEC West crown since 2011, where they will meet the Dawgs in Atlanta with College Football Playoff seeding on the line.

Fortunately for the Aggies, they took care of business in almost all of their other winnable games. Texas A&M has won four conference games against rivals it should beat in Arkansas, the Mississippi State Bulldogs, the Ole Mis Rebels and the South Carolina Gamecocks. Winning their three other non-conference games outside of Clemson has A&M at a respectable 7-3 right now.

That being said, it would take a series of miracles for the Aggies to finish the regular season any better than 7-5 (4-4). Georgia has one of the best defenses in college football and will face the Aggies Between the Hedges. LSU has the Heisman Trophy frontrunner at quarterback in Joe Burrow and will face Texas A&M in Death Valley. What an awful way to end a season.

There was no schedule harder to navigate this season in the Power 5 than the Aggies. Texas A&M will have faced four teams that will finish ranked inside of the top-10 at the time of the most important College Football Playoff Rankings. But the Aggies must take these losses in stride. It will help them build character for a hopefully a brighter tomorrow entering 2020.

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