On balance, E did a good job. But there were to many instances where we reverted to looking like a Les Miles offence. Prime example would be the last 2 minutes of regulation where if we got one lousy 1st down, the game would have been over. If I remember correctly A&m was out of timeouts after down 2. They had the leading rushing defense and one of the worst passing defenses in the SEC. E elected to to play it conservative and run 3 times to burn burn time and we got stuffed all 3 times. A pass attempt on 3rd down may have caught them off guard.
Any defense of O that says, but he was only predicted to win 6,7,8... that prediction was not a compliment. Just occurred to me.