No. 3 Texas A&M pulls off biggest comeback in school history to beat South Carolina 31-30

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Marcel Reed threw for a career-high 439 yards and 3 touchdowns and No. 3 Texas A&M rallied from a 27-point shortage to stay undefeated with a 31-30 triumph implicit South Carolina connected Saturday.

It’s the biggest comeback successful schoolhouse history, eclipsing a 21-point rally by a Johnny Manziel-led squad successful a 52-48 triumph successful the 2013 Chick-Fil-A Bowl implicit Duke. Entering Saturday, teams were 0-286 successful Southeastern Conference play since 2004 erstwhile trailing by 27 points oregon more.

Reed bounced backmost from an atrocious archetypal fractional wherever helium was intercepted doubly and had a fumble returned for a people to enactment the Aggies successful a 30-3 spread with a dazzling 2nd fractional to support Texas A&M (10-0, 7-0, No. 3 CFP) connected way for its archetypal travel to the College Football Playoff.

The Aggies took the pb for the archetypal clip connected a 4-yard tally by EJ Smith with astir 11 minutes left.

Texas A&M had a archetypal down astatine the 1 aft that, but Jamarion Morrow fumbled connected a instrumentality play and the Gamecocks recovered with astir 3 minutes to go.

Dalton Brooks and Cashius Howell sacked LaNorris Sellers connected consecutive plays to bring up fourth-and-16 with astir 90 seconds to go. Sellers scrambled connected 4th down and helium was stopped abbreviated of the archetypal down marker to seal the victory.

Sellers threw for 246 yards with 2 touchdowns and an interception for South Carolina (3-7, 1-7), which mislaid a 5th consecutive game.

Izaiah Williams caught a 27-yard TD walk from Reed to marque it 30-10 connected A&M’s archetypal thrust of the 2nd half. Reed had a 16-yard tally connected fourth-and-12 to support the thrust alive.

Reed recovered Ashton Bethel-Roman for a 39-yard TD to get the Aggies wrong 30-17 with astir 4 minutes near successful the third.

Reed’s 14-yard walk to Nate Boerkircher chopped the pb to a touchdown precocious successful the 3rd quarter. That people was acceptable up by a abbreviated walk that Bethel-Roman turned into a 76-yard reception the play before.

K.C. Concepcion had 7 receptions for 158 yards and Bethel-Roman added 139 yards receiving for the Aggies.

The Gamecocks took a 10-3 pb erstwhile Sellers connected with Vandrevius Jacobs connected a 50-yard touchdown pass.

They pushed the pb to 17-3 erstwhile 322-pound antiaircraft tackle Nick Barrett scooped up a fumble by Reed and rumbled 17-yards for a people precocious successful the archetypal quarter.

South Carolina was up by 17 precocious successful the 2nd 4th erstwhile Brooks intercepted a walk from Sellers and returned it 39 yards to springiness the Aggies a archetypal down astatine the 6. Concepcion couldn’t reel successful 2 consecutive passes successful the extremity portion earlier Randy Bond missed his 2nd tract extremity of the fractional to permission Texas A&M emptyhanded.

The Aggies defence got a stop, but Reed was intercepted successful the extremity portion with astir a infinitesimal near successful the archetypal fractional to springiness the Gamecocks the shot again. They took vantage of that mistake erstwhile Nyck Harbor had an 80-yard drawback and tally for a people connected the archetypal play of the thrust to widen the pb to 27-3.

Reed was picked disconnected again 2 plays aboriginal and South Carolina tacked connected a tract extremity to marque it 30-3 astatine halftime.

South Carolina: The Gamecocks had a large archetypal half, but indispensable debar a letdown similar the 1 they had contiguous if they anticipation to extremity their losing streak.

Texas A&M: The Aggies should support their spot successful the canvass and CFP rankings, but they’ll request to play overmuch amended if they anticipation to contend for a nationalist rubric this season.

South Carolina: Hosts Coastal Carolina adjacent week.

Texas A&M: Hosts Samford adjacent week earlier its showdown with rival No. 10 Texas connected Nov. 28.

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