COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M is in the College Football Playoff for the first time, taking a huge step toward contending for a national championship after years of coming up short.

But the Aggies certainly aren’t content just to be in the playoff.

“Obviously there was excitement yesterday to sit in the watch party and see our name go up on the screen and that moment’s not lost on the team or on me, but we have aspirations to do a lot more than just sit in a room and see our name get put on a screen,” coach Mike Elko said Monday. “I think very quickly it shifted to, now we have an opponent, we have a focus. I think you could feel the energy lift.

“We kind of went right out of there into a team meeting and to get to work on kind of where this thing was going,” he continued. “

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