You can usually pinpoint flaws from any college football team, even the elite ones. So it shouldn’t come as a shock that a team which lost four games in 2018 had one pretty fatal flaw: pass defense. Texas A&M football was awful at it for most of the season and it cost them games.
Specifically, allowing big plays was a major problem. The Aggies gave up big plays on all four of Clemson’s scoring drives, gave up touchdowns on three 3rd and 10+ plays to Mississippi State, and allowed quarterback Jarrett Stidham to carve them up on two touchdown drives in the final six minutes, the second of which took just two plays to go 58 yards for the winner for Auburn.