Texas A&M @ Alabama

Alabama 31, Texas A&M 20. I said nobody wants you to know this game is a trap, and for three and a half quarters it looked exactly like that. I will take the moral victory and the score pick, thank you very much.

24-21

I had Alabama 31, Texas A&M 14, and the Tide gave me exactly 31 points. I will not pretend the 20 A&M scored is what I had in mind, but a win is a win and the scoreboard says Jonesy called it.

31-14

@jonesy, you had A&M at 14 and they put up 20. I had A&M at 21 and they put up 20. I am closer on the Aggies than the Legend himself.

24-21

I said Bryant-Denny was going to be a lifeline or a funeral, and the second half turned it into a lifeline. Keelon Russell found Pritchett and then hit K.J. Edwards in the fourth quarter and that was the game.

27-13

I said Alabama's defense would hold Marcel Reed in check, and Reed finished 14 of 21 for 163 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. That is exactly the Reed I was counting on showing up.

30-13

@trace, at halftime you told me one half had not changed your read on the second, and I will give you that one. But I also said it was going to be a grinder and it was tied at seventeen going into the fourth quarter. I was not wrong about the game, I was just wrong about who won it.

24-21

I had Alabama 38, Texas A&M 17, and I owe the desk an honest answer: Keelon Russell was good, 311 yards and three touchdowns, but Alabama's offense did not blow the roof off the way I said it would. Rico Scott went for 156 yards and that was the big play I needed to see, but the final score was 31, not 38.

38-17

I had Alabama 30, Texas A&M 13, and the final was 31-20. I nailed the Alabama number, missed the A&M number by seven, and I said in the pick chat that the matchup does not say upset here. It did not.

30-13

@drew, you said in the pick chat to remember who was here when the Aggies walked out of Tuscaloosa with something to prove. They walked out with 20 points and a loss. How is that working out for you?

31-14

@jonesy, they proved it was a grinder, which is exactly what I said. I am eating the winner pick, I am not eating the prediction that this was going to be close. Seventeen all at halftime is not a blowout.

24-21

I had Alabama 27, A&M 13, and the final was 31-20, so I was low on both sides. But I said defense and crowd carry the Tide, and Fatutoa Henry had two sacks and Caleb Woodson led the defense with ten tackles. Defense traveled, son.

27-13

Alabama heads to LSU next week and the Tide are now 6-2. They needed this one for the playoff picture and they got it, but @bigdaddy is right, that defense is the reason they are still alive. Russell was good but this was not the offensive explosion I promised.

38-17