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Sports Page 4 The Battalion Monday, November 30,199! Mom Aggies a perfect 12-0, but still can't get past No. 4 AP Top 25 Next stop for undefeated A&M: Mobil Cotton Bowl By K. LEE DAVIS Sports Writer of THE BATTALION Texas A&M and the University of Texas play a football game against one another every season, for bragging rights, respect, and quite often, a conference champi onship. With the conference champi onship already in hand, the Ag gies at least earned bragging rights last Thursday after a 34-13 drubbing of the Longhorns in Austin. However, respect, in the form of moving up in the Associated Press poll, was not granted. In fact, the Aggies, who stayed at No. 4 for the fourth week in a row, lost ground to Nr . 3 Florida State. A&M finished the regular sea son at 12-0 for the first time in school history and could win as many games (13) as any single team has done in major college football history. Nebraska fin ished 13-0 in 1971 on the way to winning a national championship, and Brigham Young University matched that feat in 1984. A&M head coach R.C. Slocum said he was pleased that the Ag gies' win over Texas fulfilled their goal of going through their sched ule without a loss, a feat that even Slocum was skeptical about achieving. "Finishing the year unbeaten was something we really wanted to do," Slocum said. "I really didn't think we could go unde feated, and if I would have said so, somebody would have had me committed." On an evening fraught with many emotions, the mood of the Aggies was perhaps best repre sented by defensive tackle Eric England. "Winning here in Austin is something to be proud of," Eng- land said. "This team has a lot of poise and character. We've shown that all season, and we proved it again tonight." Texas head coach John Mack- ovic was quick to credit the Ag gies after losing by a three-touch down margin Thursday night. "I think A&M has an excellent chance to win the national cham pionship this season," Mackovic said. Unfortunately for the Aggies, the sports writers that comprise the rankings will probably never give them that chance. As things currently stand. No. 1 Miami would play against No. 2 Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, and the Aggies would more than like ly play No. 3 Florida State in the Cotton Bowl. Only Alabama has a game left to play this season, so even if they were to lose, a likely matchup for a national championship would never materialize as the Hurri canes and the Seminoles would face each other for the second time this season at the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona. Florida State lost to Miami, 19-16. Slocum said that he hopes that the pollsters will give his team a chance. "I would hope that if Alabama did stumble that the pollsters would decide to give us a chance at the national championship," he said. A&M comerback Aaron Glenn, who returned an interception 95 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, said that the Ag gies are ready to play whoever gets invited to the Cotton Bowl to KARL A. STOLLEIS/The Battalion KARLA. STOLLEIS/The Battalion A&M cornerback Aaron Glenn breaks up an attempted pass to Texas’ Lovell Pinkney (left) during the fourth quarter of the Aggies’ 34-13 win over the Longhorns Thanksgiving night, then celebrates the play (right). The win secured A&M’s perfect 12-0 season, but the Aggies remained ranked fourth, and actually lost ground in points on third-ranked Florida State. Record Pts Pvs 1. Miami 11-0-0 1,549 1 2. Alabama 11-0-0 1,479 2 3. Florida St. 10-1-0 1,417 3 4. Texas A&M 12-0-0 1,382 4 5. Notre Dame 9-1-1 1,291 5 6. Syracuse 9-2-0 1,151 8 7. Michigan 8-0-3 1,149 1 8. Georgia 9-2-0 1,089 9 9. Colorado 9-1-1 9% 10 10. Washington 9-2-0 988 11 11. Nebraska 8-2-0 943 12 12. Florida 8-3-0 860 6 13. N. C. St. 9-2-1 859 13 14. Stanford 9-3-0 819 11 15. Ohio St. 8-2-1 702 15 16. Boston Coll . 8-2-1 570 17 17. Tennessee 8-3-0 514 18 18. Wash. St. 8-3-0 415 21 19. Mississippi 8-3-0 398 24 20. N. Carolina 8-3-0 396 20 21. Penn St. 7-4-0 293 22 22. Arizona 6-4-1 230 23 23. USC 6-4-1 203 19 24. Miss. St. 7-4-0 199 16 25. BYU 8-4-0 138 25 face them. "We're not just a regular team," he said. "I think we could go out there and beat anyone in the nation right now." Glenn added that he was not really happy that A&M is behind Florida State in the AP poll. "We're 12-0 and they've lost a game, so that speaks for itself, but See Ag^ies/Page 6 Others receiving votes: Hawaii 61, Bowling Green 33, Kansas 10, Southern Mississippi 5, Virginia 3, Wake Forest 3, Illinois 2, Air Force 1, Fresno State 1, Rutgers 1. ‘ 1 R rc At on-C£ dents stude tion v sight that il to sei at ou has c its be now from mom right how \ Bei consi< Assoc the fis if mai ery rc RHA rent. Th: used tives i tern v tunity suppe Attention poll voters: Stop giving Aggies the shaft * his is an ur gent plea to every sports writer and broad caster privileged enough to have a vote in the Asso ciated Press col lege football poll. Give Texas A&M a break. For the first time since Franklin Roo sevelt was presi dent, the Aggies have managed to gb through the regular season wi thout losing. They've played more games than anyone else in America, and they 7 ve won more games than anyone else in America. They've traveled to Anaheim to play Stanford, whom you have ranked 14th, and won. They've traveled to Death Val ley, one of the toughest sites in America to play, to tackle Louisiana State and won. They've played Baylor, not only a tough rival but also a John Hancock Bowl participant, and won. They've played Louisville, who con tended with theNlikes of No. 6 Syracuse and No* 15 Ohio State, and beat them by a more decisi ve margin than the Orange men or the Buckeyes did. They've trav eled to the "House of Pain" to play the University of Houston, who had the top- due ranked offense in the country during the season, and won. And now, they've gone to the belly of the beast to play the University of Texas, A&M's archrival and a team that you guys put on your list twice, and won.. . handily. Twelve times the Aggies were chal lenged. Twelve times the Aggies pre vailed. Yet for all their accomplishments, all their accolades, the supreme beings of the college football world still refuse to accept Texas A&M as a football po wer worthy of being in the top three in the nation and even considered for a nation al title. It is a travesty of justice. The question is not why the Aggies have no chance to win the national championship. The question is why the Aggies have no chance to play for the na tional championship. If A&M played No. 1 Miami in the Cotton Bowl Classic on New Year's Day or played the winner of the Sugar Bowl between Miami and No. 2 Alabama, and the Aggies were trounced in either matchup, then you voters could put A&M wherever you want, and you wouldn't hear a peep out of me. But the way it is now, the only way the Aggies could even hope to be No. 1 is if Florida beats Alabama, and Florida State finds out that it had an ineligible player for eleven weeks. So A&M, if Alabama stays undefeat ed, will more than likely play Florida State in the Cotton Bowl. If the Aggies win, they will be the only team in the history of college football to be undefeat ed in 13 games and not win the national championship. And you guys would have to deal with the guilt. I understand the rap with the Aggies earlier in the season was that they were winning games over mild oppositionby small margins. At one point this season, 1 couldn't have agreed more. 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