Cover Story: Improvement vital for A&M as challenges draw close

Throughout much of what seemed like the longest offseason on record, Texas A&M football was in the spotlight.

The highest-ranked recruiting class of all-time, the fallout, the feud.

Then came the preseason rankings, which placed the Ags in the thick of the late-summer “contender or pretender” conversation.

For the past eight months, Jimbo Fisher and his program were at the center of countless “hot take” debates.