Late last season, Texas A&M football ventured to Auburn, Alabama for a night game against the Tigers, who were searching for a signature win. One quadruple-overtime contest later, the Auburn students were storming the field after a dropped two-point conversion attempt by the Aggies.
Even though that didn't fully eliminate the Aggies from SEC championship contention, it is still a flashpoint in the late-season slide from 2024. The Aggie faithful look to the multiple times that Hugh Freeze's squad successfully went over the heads of the A&M secondary to Cam Coleman and Keandre Lambert-Smith as an avatar of the issues that plagued the Ags down the stretch.