How many times can players and coaches at tamu say, "we're not the same team as last year." ????? LOL
Good point. I actually think they were a better team than they showed in BDS last year. But I figure that the big talking point for Summlin this week is that these are totally different teams on both sides of the ball and sidelines.
The nightmare scenario that he has to guard against is that we get the ball first and score, maybe mostly by hard running, they take a three and out or a turnover or something, and suddenly we are moving the ball again and the ghosts of last year start to creep in to their heads "Not this again".
I don't actually see that scenario happening, especially with them having had a week off, but he is a good enough coach to think about guarding against them getting boat raced again.
If I'm Summlin, I want to move heaven and earth to get early points on the board and get Alabama in catch up mode -- try to turn it into a track meet with our defense on the field for a lot of snaps. I noticed the line had moved several places to Alabama -4.5. The O/U is varying between 47 and 52.