Texas A&M still alive - and so is Mike Sherman

So much for those greatly exaggerated reports of the death of Texas A&M’s football team. Heck, it doesn’t even look sick any more. Not so much as a cough or a sniffle. Maybe its demise will come this week. Or later against Oklahoma or archrival Texas. Or perhaps not at all. The Aggies (4-3) certainly put their obituary on hold here Saturday night and did so in authoritative fashion, with a spectacular rushing attack and an opportunistic defense. Something did die here, however, and that was Texas Tech’s slim chances at a BCS bowl, a possible Big 12 South title and a potential Top 10 finish, after A&M’s complete, 52-30 whipping for the Aggies’ first win in these city limits since 1993. Even the doormats get tired of being stepped on. Such was the case here, where an A&M team thoroughly humiliated just seven days prior emphatically knocked off 21st-ranked Texas Tech at AT&T Jones Stadium with the most points an Aggies team has ever put up on the Red Raiders. The Red Raiders (5-3) benched starting quarterback Taylor Potts — who was booed by a record crowd of 57,733 and called “slow and statue-like” by coach Mike Leach — in favor of a third-string quarterback who had played in just one game since Seth Doege’s sophomore year in high school and lost five turnovers in a sloppy game with horrid run defense. – Austin American-Statesman