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Pat Forde

Texas A&M Stuck in Endless Cycle of Good but Not Great

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (hangover cures sold separately in Stillwater):

First Quarter: The Texas A&M Conundrum

Amid what has been an unusually calm season down South, the SEC finally resumed acting up Sunday: Texas A&M (1) bit a $75 million bullet and fired Jimbo Fisher a day after he won a league game by 41 points with his third-string quarterback. The timing is weird but the result was inevitable, once the school reconciled with the fiscal irresponsibility of paying by far the biggest buyout in college sports history.

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