Texas A&M Football: 3 overreactions to loss vs. Auburn in Week 4

Texas A&M football lost a season-defining game to Auburn on Saturday night. Is there any hope left? Let’s do what college football fans do best and overreact.

Many Aggie fans, as well as media members, believed that the Aggies would knock off top-10 ranked Auburn at home on Saturday afternoon. Faith was put into this offense to make the plays necessary and the defense to make the stops that had to be made. Of course, we all know that isn’t what happened.

On that note, let’s overreact.

3. The offensive line is a huge liability

So many people are blaming Kellen Mond for the loss on Saturday afternoon. Some are calling for him to be benched and others are judging Jimbo Fisher for making the decision to play Mond over Nick Starkel — who threw five interceptions on Saturday for Arkansas.

However, like I will discuss later, this isn’t Mond’s fault at all. His team lost this game by eight, they weren’t blown out or anything like that. They actually won most categories, just not the scoreboard.

The real liability here is that Aggie offensive line, a unit that lost Erik McCoy and Keaton Sutherland from a season ago and are now looking absolutely lost week in and week out. Receivers are getting open and everything, but Mond is unable to find them because he doesn’t have the time to do so. The running game isn’t happening because there are no holes created.

Simply put, the Aggies can’t run their offense if the offensive line can’t get things figured out.