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A&M season depends on Saturday’s matcl
The 1988
Texas A&M
football
team will
play its most
important
game of the
season this
weekend
against the
Alabama
Crimson
fide.
The
Aggies go
into
Saturday’s
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Miller
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contest with an 0-2 record and every
reason to let the season waste away.
The road to the Southwest
Conference title may not include a
New Year’s Day in Dallas, but believe
it or not, the race toward that title
begins Saturday.
The Aggies have lost only one
game at Kyle Field in the last three
years (LSU, 17-3 last year).
The first two games were away
and LSU’s crowd isn’t the most
congenial, as many LSU opponents
know.
Maybe the crowd didn’t have any
factor in the 27-0 shutout of the
Aggies, but coming home where the
team is used to winning is what it
need .
To win against a 13th-ranked
team might throw the Aggies back in
the Top 20 and give them the
confidence they need for Oklahoma
State in Stillwater next week.
A win there would put A&M at 2-
2 for the season, and the team
morale certainly would be much
higher than it is now.
Should the Aggies lose, though,
they could be in for a long season.
An 0-3 record for a team that had
hopes of a national championship
would be simply devastating.
A loss would destroy any
confidence the Aggies might have
had, since honre is where they play
best.
Many fans believe if thev can't win
at Kyle Field with the support of the
12th Man, 0-4 isn’t far awav.
Like one week away.
Going into the conference race
winlesss wouldn’t be very
enlightening to an A&M team that
didn’t even win at home.
More importantly, with no
incentives to play for during the
conference schedule, what’s the
point?
Think about John Roper, Adam
Bob, Dana Batiste, Alex Morris,
Jerry Fontenot, and Rod Harris.
How do they feel? This is their last
year.
All of them have a chance to be
taken in next year’s National
Football League draft, and high
NFL draf tees come from winning
teams.
What happens if A&M goes 8-4,
7-5, or an unthinkable 6-6?
These outcomes wouldTertainly
lower the value that any of these
players possesses.
Roper, who received most of the
preseason publicity, is already going
to have a tough year because
everyone is going to run away from
him.
We saw evidence of this in the
LSU game.
Harris has already missed one
game and will play, but he is not
listed as a starter this week.
In addition, he may be one of the
most talented receivers in the nation
that can’t showcase his talents
because A&M’s passing game hasn’t
been exactly outstanding since Kevin
Murray left.
The opinion of many players
right now is that even though they
can’t go to Dallas on New Year’s Dav
they can still prove they are the best
team in the Southwest Conference.
To end the season in the Top 10,
the Aggies not only have to win the
SWC, but win every game in the
process — a feat that hasn’t been
accomplished very often.
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Also, a mediocre season added
with NCAA probation isn’t verv
enticing to blue-chip athletes.
The Alabama game is also
important to the SWC, because it
isn’t doing verv well against good
teams this preseason.
The Universitv of Texas was
mauled by Brigham Young. Texas
Christian was blown out bv Georgia.
and Texas Tech lost to Division I-
AA North Texas.
Filings are prettv grim in die
SWC, as five of its nine teams hav e
been on probation or being
investigated, and the Universitv of
H onston seems to be next.
And cheating is obviously not
working, based on this year’s poor
start.
An A&M vktorv not onlv would
help the Aggies in their c|itest lot a
SWC title and a 10-2 v ietorv. but tht
conference as a whole.
Regaining the respect of Ians
around the nation is another lactor.
Alabama has a winning tradition,
and Coach Bill (: un v an d 1 ieisman
Candidate Bobbv Humphiev want
to keep that tradition alive.
against a team with tliepresi^i
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Aggies by 1
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Aggies by 7
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