Texas A&M 51, Mississippi State 41: Defense in review

Strong start, familiar fourth-quarter collapse equal mixed bag

What went right: For the fourth time in their last five SEC games, the Aggies put together a couple of quarters of very good football (or more). We’ll save what happened when the A&M defense wasn’t playing well for the ‘what went wrong’ segment so, for now, let’s spend a moment focusing on the positive. Mark Snyder’s defense came out and played very well in the first quarter and even throughout the entire first half.