When a college football team hasn’t won a national championship since before integration, it’s fair to look at its status as a championship contender with a sizable grain of salt.

That’s certainly true of Texas A&M, which claims three national titles but the last of which came in 1939, mere months after World War II began.

It’s time to start believing that this Texas A&M team is different. If the Aggies’ Week 2 win at Notre Dame was an announcement that they were legitimate, Saturday’s win at LSU upped the ante.

Playing in a hostile Death Valley stadium where opponents normally crumble, it was Texas A&M that made LSU do the crumbling.

Trailing 18-14 at half, the Aggies outscored the Tigers 35-0 in the second half before a garbage-time LSU touchdown with 59 seconds left. In what had bee

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