SEC Football: 5 incredibly early bold predictions for the 2023 season
By John Buhler
2. Yes, it goes as badly as you thought it would for Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M this season
There are only two ways I want for this to go at Texas A&M. Either the Aggies emerge as one of the 12 best teams in the country or it goes to hell in a handbasket faster than you can say Sliced Bread. Texas A&M has recruited marvelously under Jimbo Fisher’s watch, but the Aggies won a grand total of five games last year. They were the first SEC team to fail to achieve bowl eligibility.
So with D.J. Durkin and now Bobby Petrino on staff, we could see a snake oil grease fire of epic proportions down in College Station. I’m not saying it’ll be a bonfire, but things are going to be hot over there for sure. The last thing we need to see is for the Aggies to go 7-5 and drag this thing out for another year. Go big or go home. 10-2 and 2-10 can yield similar levels of entertainment.
Not to say A&M will be worse than Vanderbilt, but I am fully anticipating the Aggies being this year’s version of Auburn. We’re not going to see it end as abruptly as it did for Bryan Harsin down on The Plains, but Gig Em Nation might be running out of patience with their fast-talking head coach. For the first time since COVID, Fisher needs to put his money where his mouth is and win.
No matter how you slice the bread, we are in the interesting business, and Texas A&M will be that.