Texas A&M Football: 3 bold predictions for Mississippi State showdown

COLUMBIA, SC - OCTOBER 13: Trayveon Williams #5 of the Texas A&M Aggies runs with the ball against the South Carolina Gamecocks during their game at Williams-Brice Stadium on October 13, 2018 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
COLUMBIA, SC - OCTOBER 13: Trayveon Williams #5 of the Texas A&M Aggies runs with the ball against the South Carolina Gamecocks during their game at Williams-Brice Stadium on October 13, 2018 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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Texas A&M football and Mississippi State face off in Stark Vegas looking for an extremely important win in a season so full of question marks.

Texas A&M has been a team that is well known for falling apart in the later part of the season. That is what they are known for and trust me that isn’t what they want at all. The quickest way to fix that is to show that changes are here by winning games in the second half of the season. Can they pull that off under the direction of a new head coach? We will just have to wait and see.

Mississippi State also has a new head coach in Joe Moorhead. With Dan Mullen leaving for Florida, the Bulldogs were on the hunt for a new head coach, finally settling on Moorhead. The season hasn’t exactly been successful for the Bulldogs, but it hasn’t been a nightmare either. Losses to top teams like Florida, Kentucky and LSU aren’t that disappointing.

Enough beating around the bush though, let’s get to bold predictions.

3. Kellen Mond out-plays Nick Fitzgerald

Nick Fitzgerald has struggled this season and that is putting it mildly. Honestly, how he hasn’t been benched in favor of Keaton Thompson is beyond me. He is completing less than half of his passes and has relied heavily on his legs to make things happen for the Bulldog offense. That is not at all a statistic of a successful team and a strong defense can only bail you out so much.

On the other side, we have seen an emergence of a stronger version of Kellen Mond that no one really saw coming. He has grown immensely from the guy who was just trying to fill in a Nick Starkel shaped hole into the guy we know see week in and week out. As an Aggie fan myself, I am quite proud of who Mond has become.

My bold prediction? In the matchup of dual-threat quarterbacks, Mond edges out Nick Fitzgerald.