Texas A&M shows signs for concern despite Vanderbilt win
By John Buhler
Texas A&M football is 1-0, but the Aggies must be concerned after Week 4.
A win is a win, but Texas A&M football looked shaky against Vanderbilt football on Saturday.
The Texas A&M Aggies were able to survive a most humiliating SEC opener loss to the Vanderbilt Commodores. Derek Mason’s team forced three fumbles and made Aggies quarterback Kellen Mond look pedestrian. If the ‘Dores had any semblance of a quality offense, they just might have pulled off the stunning road upset of the No. 10 team in the land in Kyle Field. We are concerned.
This is Jimbo Fisher’s third year in College Station, not his first game.
While we understand that crazy things will happen in a 10-game, SEC-only schedule, who would have thought Vanderbilt came within one score of upsetting the Aggies in College Station? Though Texas A&M got the narrow 17-12 victory, Saturday was a microcosm of why Texas A&M is a middling SEC West program and nothing more and shouldn’t be taken seriously at this time.
Mond was deemed to be the second-best quarterback in the SEC behind only Kyle Trask of the Florida Gators. He’s had so many starts in this offense, yet he looked like a mid-tier SEC quarterback at best vs. Vanderbilt. He completed 17-of-28 passes for 189 yards, one touchdown and two costly fumbles. This type of performance would beat Vanderbilt, Arkansas and that’s it.
Texas A&M has to “pop” under head coach Jimbo Fisher in year three. While we understand the schedule was so beyond brutal to do so last year, are the Aggies going to be good or not under Fisher any time soon? The Ole Miss Rebels and definitely the Mississippi State Bulldogs would have beaten them today, as well as maybe the cross-divisional foe South Carolina Gamecocks.
The Aggies offensive cannot look this lackluster vs. a top-12 SEC team this year and win a game.
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