r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 14 '25

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Texas A&M Defeats Notre Dame 41-40

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Texas A&M 7 21 3 10 41
Notre Dame 14 10 7 9 40
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u/Alphaspade Iron Bowl • Sickos Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

A&M's strategy of lulling ND to sleep with sicko red zone playcalling worked like a charm.

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u/Stauffe Texas A&M Aggies • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 14 '25

Blocking TE with the game winning catch lol

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u/ice-eight Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

If you asked me before this game what a Boerkicher or a Melin-Ohrstrom was, I would have guessed at least one of those was my coffee table.

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u/weoutherebrah Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

Law firm 

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u/cityofklompton Grand Valley State Lakers Sep 14 '25

Fancy coffee machine

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u/ItsAustin Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

Melin-Ohrstrom sounds like a scientific term. The Melin-Ohrstrom Principle

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u/smitherenesar Pac-10 • RPI Engineers Sep 14 '25

Definition: blaming a single player when the defense allows 40 or more points

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

The Melin-Ohstrom Principle is a corrallary to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. A major break on a kick return tends to be called back due to a hold but it’s impossible to directly observe the hold and the return simultaneously

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u/yusill Sep 14 '25

alright i laughed hard at that one

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u/a_simple_creature Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Sickos Sep 14 '25

I see you also shop at IKEA

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u/millertyme50 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

Boerkicher I can understand as he just transferred in. But jf you don't know the Swede (or Thor) can you really call yourself a fan?

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u/DeathRose007 Texas A&M Aggies • LSU Tigers Sep 14 '25

He’s corn fed

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u/whenIwasasailor Nebraska • Georgia Tech Sep 14 '25

Transfer from NU. Raised on Runzas in Aurora, Nebraska.

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u/bub166 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Wyoming Cowboys Sep 14 '25

Always a great day to be a Husky. 😎

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u/AthleticsSharts Texas A&M Aggies • Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 15 '25

Damn skippy.

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u/Stauffe Texas A&M Aggies • Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 14 '25

I’d never heard of a runza. Those look delicious

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u/AthleticsSharts Texas A&M Aggies • Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 15 '25

I'll be crucified by the other NU students/grads for saying this, but they're ok. Worth trying, but not anything amazing. Unless someone's grandma makes them from scratch.

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u/HoovesCarveCraters Texas A&M Aggies • McGill Redbirds Sep 14 '25

Big Ass Truck riffs intensify

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u/Biocidal Texas A&M • North Texas Sep 14 '25

Name something more beautiful? Than a big boy OL TD

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u/Severe_Western959 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

did he catch a ball all game? has he caught one all season? lol

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u/dospod LSU Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

I like your flairs

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u/Titus01 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

Im conflicted on yours

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u/dospod LSU Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

I got degrees from schools within both of their systems . Both schools don’t have their own football team so I root for the flagship

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u/camaroatc Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

I was desperately trying to remember if I even knew who that guy was lol

Then they said he was at Nebraska on TV and I could vaguely remember him coming over in the portal

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u/Jkane007 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

While hinish could have filed a police report for what happened to him on that play and it never should have been allowed.

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u/_Junk_Rat_ Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos Sep 14 '25

“Coach this QB Blast to the closed side of the field shouldn’t be the first and long play!”

Elko: “EXACTLY! It’s GENIUS!”

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u/sqigglygibberish Duke Blue Devils • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 14 '25

They just needed that extra space on the left side of the end zone for the 4th down call

Why have 4 downs if you don’t plan on using them all

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u/DeathRose007 Texas A&M Aggies • LSU Tigers Sep 14 '25

We’d use a 5th down if they let us. It’s worked before it’ll work again

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u/Twalin Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

Yea, you definitely need to setup that spacing for the wheel route to the blocking TE!

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u/rgptxbones Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

Getting Dennis Franchione flashbacks with running the injured QB to the short side of the field.

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u/Daddioster Texas A&M Aggies • Southwest Sep 14 '25

The Fran special!

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u/JackC1126 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

Gotta say, two strategic false starts in a row was solid 5D chess

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u/freeman918986 Tennessee Volunteers Sep 14 '25

the false retreat!

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u/LordFarquadOnAQuad Texas A&M Aggies • Georgia Bulldogs Sep 14 '25

Have you ever heard of Hannibal?

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u/dr_croctapus Texas A&M Aggies • AAST Gorillas Sep 14 '25

That’s why we’re a military academy

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u/potterpockets Ohio State Buckeyes • Sickos Sep 14 '25

Genghis Khan nods approvingly. 

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u/sirbrambles Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

It’s the runaway scrape we learn in mandatory Texas history class.

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u/Wagnerous Michigan Wolverines • Paul Bunyan Trophy Sep 14 '25

Popularized by the Mongols I believe.

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u/OdaDdaT Verified Coach • Verified Player Sep 14 '25

Gray tried to counter with the defensive hold to defeat the deception but alas

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u/FBI_Official_Acct Paper Bag • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 14 '25

More room to throw the football of course

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u/Kuntheman Paper Bag Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

I will never fathom that we put Christian Gray one on one with Jeremiah Smith on the deciding play for the national championship

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u/TheWorstYear Ohio State • Cincinnati Sep 14 '25

The guy from 50 shades of grey?

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u/Phantom1100 Alabama Crimson Tide • Team Chaos Sep 14 '25

Well, he definitely punishes the defense when he’s put on the field

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 Texas Longhorns • USF Bulls Sep 14 '25

Instead of 50 shades of gray, it's 50 yards in penalties.

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u/Jeff__Skilling Texas Longhorns Sep 14 '25

No, you're thinking of the guy from Nip/Tuck

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u/spreaditontoast Sep 14 '25

That’s Christian Troy. Christian Gray is the lead in Grays Anatomy

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u/Jakookula Ohio State Buckeyes • Big Ten Sep 14 '25

I thought that was Meredith?

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u/Spirit117 Iowa State Cyclones • Arizona Wildcats Sep 14 '25

50 shades of PI

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u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • Akron Zips Sep 14 '25

There’s that many shades of Grey?

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u/Redfish680 Sep 14 '25

50 Shades of the Guy Who Has The Grizzly

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u/CalTono Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

Gray is such a sorry corner, he is good for at least 2 dumb holding and/or PI a game

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u/Pleasant_Network3986 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 14 '25

well he gifted T A&M the set of downs that ended with the TD on a 3rd and 16 so i think ur right

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u/Stoneador Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Sickos Sep 14 '25

All he had to do was just stand in the way and Texas A&M doesn’t get their first touchdown. Instead he gives one of the worst attempts I’ve ever seen of tackling and they take it all the way.

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u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

That was actually Stroman. He fucked up 3 times on one play, failed to turn around in time, hesitated to make the tackle, and then fucked it up terribly. He had one more bad angle and then didn’t play again the rest of the night.

Gray was bad on that play too though.

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u/FlammableEyeballs Penn State • St. Francis (PA) Sep 14 '25

You'd think he'd be good at tying receivers down.

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u/CrimsonOOmpa Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 14 '25

I heard he was a kinky freak too!!

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u/Original_Profile8600 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 14 '25

That was pretty nice come to think of it

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u/Lil_S_curve2 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 14 '25

I just thought of it.

Pretty sweet.

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u/Merisiel Ohio State • Louisville Sep 14 '25

I’ll allow it.

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u/ndfan737 Notre Dame • Indiana Sep 14 '25

Buchner fumbled an extra point in a 1 point game and Gray was still a much bigger reason they lost this game lol.

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u/CorruptedRat Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 14 '25

I was downvoted in our Reddit during the offseason for calling Golden out for doing that. Absolute insanity.

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u/Active_Mastodon5288 Sep 14 '25

I will never fathom how we allowed Tyler Buchner back on the team.

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u/croth4 Sep 14 '25

Was that before or after it was 31-7

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u/suzukigun4life North Texas • Summertime Lover Sep 14 '25

That pump face on 4th down was absolutely money.

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u/DeathRose007 Texas A&M Aggies • LSU Tigers Sep 14 '25

I’m used to that preceding a throw out of bounds or in the dirt. You’re allowed to throw a completed pass into the endzone? Who’d a thunk.

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u/DucksEatFreeInSubway Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos Sep 14 '25

Yah all three of us when he did that just fucking groaned.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

mf Collin Klein somehow made something happen at the goalline pay him $5m

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u/still_none_the_wiser Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

I can’t down vote this enough.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

sarcasm man lol

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u/still_none_the_wiser Texas A&M Aggies Sep 14 '25

Have you seen how inept our leadership is when it comes to contracts?!? I can think of 75 million reasons why the sarcasm part is lost on me!!!

By the way Klein is garbage. Should have been fired after last year.

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u/BlacksmithDistinct17 Kansas State Wildcats Sep 14 '25

How much of the reigns does he have at A&M? Turns out at Kstate he was extremely restricted, and our good couple seasons were because of his play calling leaking through. After he left I've heard it became way more locked down with the OC (who is shit anyways) just doing what Kleiman says and we are currently in our worst season since 1989

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u/theurge14 Kansas State Wildcats Sep 14 '25

Maybe they’re all bad playcallers. Football coaches aren’t exactly known for being smart people.

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u/gcfgjnbv Sep 14 '25

Elko is defense minded and calls the defensive plays this year, so I bet Klein has near free rein with elko probably only making 4th down go for it/fg type decisions.

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u/RemoteAbalone8687 Texas A&M Aggies • Texas State Bobcats Sep 14 '25

Gig em

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u/RadonAjah USC Trojans • Fresno State Bulldogs Sep 14 '25

What a nice day

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u/OrangeJuliusCaesr Sep 14 '25

Two time outs and they didn’t get a mesh or anything to get closer

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u/ZGWX Texas A&M Aggies • Oklahoma Sooners Sep 14 '25

A lucky charm, perhaps

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u/rodguzina Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 14 '25

Yes. Maddening final 6 or 7 plays.