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Freshman quarterback Haynes King's backup commenced out slowly, finished precious few drives or even fumbled the soccer a whisker from the purpose line.
Sophomore Zach Calzada got here up grab ultimately, even though, throwing an 18-backyard touchdown skip to going for walks again Isaiah Spiller with 2:41 ultimate to help 5th-ranked Texas A&M part Colorado 10-7 Saturday.
"The one factor you could say he made the plays on those drives that mattered, proper there at the quit," Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher stated.
And Fisher failed to need to hear about how his Aggies ought to have walloped the Buffaloes, both.
"First and fundamental, Colorado played a heck of a soccer game. We got a very good football crew," Fisher stated. "They were quite a few the motive why we had troubles today. We can sit right here and say we blame it on ourselves, however they did a actually, in reality true job, physically and schematically.
"We had been lucky to pop out of that one."
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Unbeaten if no longer unscathed.
Spiller’s TD gave the Aggies (2-0) their first lead on a day wherein they misplaced their superstar freshman starting quarterback to a decrease proper leg damage and eight in their first 9 drives have been three-and-outs.
Colorado's hopes of an disillusioned over the 17-point favored Aggies ended whilst Brendon Lewis' bypass to Dimitri Stanley on fourth-and-13 from his 22 protected just 12 yards earlier than he turned into smothered via a bevy of defenders.
"It gives us an identity," Spiller stated of the difficult-fought victory. "It turned into our first adversity sport, it was a brilliant task for us."
Maybe it'll give the Buffs an identity, too.
"There’s no reason to cling our head low for anything," Colorado educate Karl Dorrell said. "We had a risk to win a game, a massive game, and our locker room is extra dissatisfied approximately not finishing the sport.
"I notion defensively we played in reality nicely, but offensively we had a few precise moments but struggled at instances, couldn’t placed anything together within the 2nd half of."
The Aggies (2-0), whose 10-sport winning streak is 2nd longest inside the kingdom to Alabama, took over with 1:39 left and ran out the clock at the Buffs (1-1), who managed just one first down after taking a 7-3 halftime lead.
The former Big 12 adversaries hadn’t performed every different considering 2009 before the Aggies bolted to the Southeastern Conference and the Buffs headed to the Pac-12.
The vintage competitors put on a mind-blowing protecting performance, however an offensive dud in the front of sixty one,203 enthusiasts at the house of the Denver Broncos.
The Buffs had a chance to pull off their first win over a top-five team in 14 years while Joshka Gustav pressured a fumble inches from the intention line and cornerback Mekhi Blackmon recovered it in the end region to prevent a landing by using the Aggies halfway through the fourth region.
The Buffs went 3-and-out again, but, and the Aggies started out their sport-prevailing drive from their 23 with 7:50 last.
The Buffs lost their great rusher, Jarek Broussard, to an unspecified injury midway through the 1/3 quarter after he become smoked via nickelback Antonio Johnson simply as he caught a skip in the proper flat. He slowly walked off and did not go back.
King hobbled off the field favoring his proper leg after a 2-yard keeper on the Aggies' 2nd ownership. He spent the second half of looking from the sideline in street garments, on crutches and with a taking walks boot on his right foot. Fisher said he had no update after the sport on King's harm or his prognosis.
Calzada, a sophomore, completed just of his first 8 passes for two yards till heating up inside the two-minute drill just before halftime and Seth Small's 41-backyard discipline purpose pulled A&M to 7-3 at halftime.
That force commenced with a fifteen-yard run by using Devon Achane. Before that, the Aggies were in threat of becoming the first team to move into halftime without a primary down towards Colorado seeing that Nebraska in 1961.
Broussard scored from 2 yards for Colorado within the first region, however some other long pressure ended with a overlooked subject aim through Cole Becker and a third ended whilst Lewis changed into stuffed on back-to-returned attempts to advantage some inches inside the Aggies 5-backyard line.
Dorrell wasn’t 2d-guessing any calls.
"We lost a truely tough game, where we had a remarkable hazard of winning, that’s sincerely the lowest line," he stated.
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Texas A&M escaped a huge upset and has big questions at quarterback. "Today is judgment day," Fisher said. "We found out that we have heart, but we have to find out if we can get execution and precision."
THE TAKEAWAY
Texas A&M: Although Calzada finished simply 18 of 38 passes for 183 yards, he got it completed in crunch time. And the Aggies limited Lewis to just 89 yards through the air and seventy six at the floor. Johnson had 9 solo tackles and of A&M's seven bypass breakups, outshined best through Colorado LB Nate Landman (10 solo tackles, two of them for loss and pass breakups).
Colorado: The Buffs nevertheless have not overwhelmed a group within the pinnacle 5 for the reason that knocking off No. Three Oklahoma 27-24 in Boulder on Sept. 29, 2007. But a defiant Dorrell insisted his group proved it's on its manner back: "Damn right I’m constructive! I suppose anybody concept that we wouldn’t be near this group. I told you all we’re a better group than you think."
UP NEXT
Texas A&M hosts New Mexico on Sept. 18.
Colorado hosts Minnesota on Sept. 18.
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