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Michelle R. Martinelli

With more games canceled, college football Twitter proposes last-minute Ohio State vs. Texas A&M matchup

Ohio State’s game Saturday against Michigan has been canceled. Texas A&M’s game Saturday against Ole Miss has been canceled. And college football Twitter has a proposal: Buckeyes vs. Aggies.

But let’s back up for a second.

The SEC announced Monday that the Texas A&M-Ole Miss game this weekend is postponed, and it could be canceled altogether if there isn’t a good makeup date. This game was originally schedule for November but was postponed because of COVID-19 issues within the Aggies program. Now, Saturday’s rescheduled game has been postponed because of a “combination of positive tests, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of individuals” at Ole Miss, The Clarion Ledger reported.

By Tuesday afternoon, the Michigan Wolverines canceled their upcoming game against the Buckeyes because their program is dealing with an increase in positive COVID-19 cases. The issue for Ohio State here is that it’s only played five games and, currently, it needs to play six to be eligible for the Big Ten championship game December 19.

So college football Twitter suggested a last-minute scheduling of Ohio State vs. Texas A&M — a game that could very loosely serve as a College Football Playoff play-in game.

The Aggies are 7-1 and ranked No. 5 in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll. Last week, they were also No. 5 in the College Football Playoff rankings, which was one spot behind Ohio State. The Buckeyes are 5-0 and No. 3 and No. 4 in the AP and Coaches polls, respectively.

Sure, this is incredibly last-minute and not at all typical of how games are scheduled. But playing football during a global pandemic isn’t typical either, and if Coastal Carolina and BYU could schedule and play a game in a matter of days, why can’t other teams?

Ohio State-Texas A&M would almost certainly be an entertaining matchup and one we wouldn’t normally get to see in the middle of a regular season.

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