I love this match up for a few reasons. One being that Texas finally has confidence again. Although they won for the first time in over a month over a lowly Florida Atlantic team. FAU still does some things well including ranking #22 in pass defense and 66th in scoring defense yet Texas put up their highest scoring game of the year with 51 points.
Now they can go to a bowl game again if they get a win at home against Texas A&M a team that is coming off a monster win against Nebraska at home. Not often that you would say let down when you face an in state rival like Texas, but A&M may be considering Texas has gotten beat up.
One final though here is that Texas A&M has struggled against good defenses. The two teams that are close to what Texas does in ranks of total yards, pass yards and rushing yards given up on defense are Arkansas 38/18/72 which A&M lost to Arkansas 17-24 at home. Against Nebraska 9/2/57 they squeeked out a victory 9-6 at home. Now they face Texas who is 8/11/31st very capable of shutting a team down in fact they held Nebraska to 13 poitns in a win. A&M will be at Texas where they are just 1-6 ATS in their last 7 meetings playing a good defensive team fighting for their bowl streak on Sr. Day.
I expect a great day from DE Sam Acho who had his best game a week ago he'll be the key to disrupt Tannehill. A&M is beatable through the air as they rank 97th in the nation. Gilbert will be the key as he has been all year 15-21 263 yards 2 TD's against FAU gave him the confidence he needs to put together scoring drives on Thursday.
