From: wingfiel@lonestar.utsa.edu (Kevin J. Wingfield)
Subject: TEXAS aTm - got screwed
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:21:51 GMT





        As if there was any doubt that Texas A&M
        was the most maligned unbeaten team in the history of
        college football, the voters in the Associated Press
        poll erased that Sunday when they pushed once-beaten
        Florida State into third place behind top ranked
        Miami and secon-ranked Alabama.

        The Aggies, 10-0, must have heel marks since they have been
        stepped over THREE different times this season.
        When told of what happened with the vote Sunday afternoon,
        Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum just Shrugged.  "I don't
        want to come across like I'm really upset b/c I have said
        all along that I was not concerned with the polls...".

        What upset Slocum was ESPN's DB --designated buffoon --
        Lee Corso.  Corso, the Dick Vitale of football, and
        probably one of the most uneducated as far as the game goes,
        openly campaigned for his alma mater,  Florida State.
        Remember, too, Corso has repeatedly beaten on A&M this
        year, going so far as to just about root for Louisville
        after he picked the Cardinals to upset the Aggies.
        Ah, Lee, you noticed that somehow A&M managed to "slip"
        by Louisville, 40-18.

        Last Saturday night, Corso was bragging about FSU's 70-7
        thumping of Tulane(2-8), which lost to Navy two
        weeks before.  That is Navy's only victory.  Of course,
        Corso neglected to point out that the Seminoles, whose
        only loss is to Maimi, nudged Clemson (5-5) by four pts
        and squeked by Georgia Tech (5-5) by five pts...you cant't
        make sense over comparitive scores.  And Corso, a former
        coach should know that.  After all, the Aggies topped
        Stanford, which blitzed Notre Dame, by the way who put
        a tie on the unblemished record of Michigan.  The Ags, also
        defeated Houston handidly, which manhandled Illinois,
        who also tied Michigan and who also ripped Ohio State ---
        the top two teams in the Big Ten.

        But this is the most recent slap at the 92' Aggies, who
        have listened all season to what is wrong with them.  At the
        The last time the Ags were unbeaten wat at 9-0-1 in 56'.
        The last time they went perfect was in 1939 -- their national
        championship season.

        Still, the the critics of the team haven't flustered
        Slocum or the Ags one bit, they continue to go out and win.
        And they will battle right to the end.  With two games left
        of the regular season and to go undeafeated that would
        be 12-0, can anybody say the same, I think not.  They
        end the regular season on Thanksgiving night, the only
        college game on national T.V. that night so if you haven't
        see, on that night you won't be stuffing youlack of credit
        they are due as the nation takes a seat and watches the Ags
        on their mission.

        So Lee, you AP voters, and FSU leeches, that this to heart
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