Posted on 12/23/2021 1:25:55 AM PST by blueplum
Texas A&M, the only team to beat No. 1 Alabama in 2021, suddenly ended its season on Wednesday by backing out of the Gator Bowl, citing injuries and a Covid-19 outbreak.
The Aggies had been set to play Wake Forest a week from Friday at the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville before making the unexpected announcement.....
...“It is unfortunate, but we just don’t have enough scholarship players available to field a team,” A&M Coach Jimbo Fisher said.
Aggies Athletic Director Ross Bjork called the decision "heartbreaking" for everyone associated with the famed 12th Man program....
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These are supposed “cases”. Funny how all at once those swabs work.
They probably already do that;)
How about letting the non-scholarship players play?
It will never be over. It will mutate and circle the globe forever.
WeâÂÂre now destroying peopleâÂÂs lives for a cold.
Number of effective coronavirus vaccines in historyâ¦zero.
Imagine 4 years ago, pulling out of a bowl game because some guys have a cold.
Utah State is pressing to replace A & M. They’re a great team this year.
They already played in the JIMMY KIMMEL LA BOWL PRESENTED BY STIFEL
Between Utah, BYU and Utah State, you could say Utah as a state had the best college football season this year.
It’s happened before that the 5 win team gets a waiver to play in a bowl that no one else wants to go
I think Bowl Games are headed for extinction. Since now we have a playoff, nobody cares, it’s like the NIT in basketball.
They already played. Beat Oregon State 24-13 in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl.
Rutgers should be out of the league. Play Marist, Nyack College, maybe Lafayette. It’s wrong people to have to watch an OSU Rutgers game.
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