While it is a tragedy to college football fans that the storied Texas-Texas A&M rivalry has come to a close, there will be plenty of excitement around College Station in 2012 with A&M’s move to the SEC. The Aggies will play in the West division; they move to a conference and division that – with all due respect to Texas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State – is more ferocious than the Big 12.
DeWayne Walker will enter his second full season as head coach of the New Mexico State Aggies in 2011, and most are predicting another year at the bottom of the Western Athletic Conference. But will that be the case?
Utah State is expected to be on a downswing in 2011. This is a team that only won four games in 2010, so, unless the Aggies exceed expectations and prove people wrong, they are most likely to wind up at bottom of the WAC standings come December.
Mike Sherman is still just 19-19 in his tenure at Texas A&M, but the program is on the rise after an impressive turnaround in the middle of 2010. Expectations are much higher this year, but can the Aggies live up to the hype?
