{"id":276136,"date":"2025-11-06T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276136\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:47:08","slug":"rece-davis-pete-thamel-reveal-picks-for-texas-am-at-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276136\/","title":{"rendered":"Rece Davis, Pete Thamel reveal picks for Texas A&M at Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, No. 3 Texas A&M<\/a> will invade Memorial Stadium for a showdown against No. 22 Missouri<\/a>. On the College GameDay Podcast, ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel and Rece Davis revealed their predictions for the pivotal SEC matchup.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to envision them mustering an upset,\u201d Thamel said<\/a>. \u201cBut, look, at this point, who would\u2019ve thought Missouri\u2019s still got top-20 team and still a path, conceivably, to the postseason there. But, they\u2019d have to show something. I will say this: [Matt] Zollers<\/a> looked pretty good when he went in and slung it around in the last game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Missouri staff has had a week to, you know, to kind of get him ready a little bit, settle him in. So it\u2019ll be interesting to see, against Mike Elko<\/a> and Jay Bateman<\/a> and that defense, how the Tigers do. But, I\u2019m gonna go with A&M. I just think it\u2019s too much to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Missouri\u2019s 17-10 loss to Vanderbilt<\/a> in Week 9, Tigers starting quarterback Beau Pribula<\/a> suffered a dislocated ankle. Pribula, who transferred to Missouri from Penn State<\/a> ahead of the season, was having an excellent season.<\/p>\n

True freshman QB Matt Zollers replaced Pribula after he left the game with his injury. Zoller completed 14-of-his-23 pass attempts for 138 yards and a touchdown, without throwing an interception.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the Aggies\u2019 defense will put the inexperienced gunslinger to the test. Rece Davis isn\u2019t confident Zollers will be able to lead Missouri to victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cZollers looked really good. I think he\u2019s going to be really good for them, but it\u2019s a lot to ask,\u201d Davis said. \u201cA&M has won games in a variety of fashion. They won a slugfest against Auburn<\/a>. They\u2019ve won a couple of high-scoring games against Arkansas<\/a> and against Notre Dame<\/a>. That\u2019s really the mark of a good team\u2014an elite team\u2014I should say.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can beat you in a variety of ways. \u2026 Missouri is a good team. Even with the backup quarterback, Missouri can win. I just can\u2019t quite bring myself to pick against A&M the way they\u2019re playing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Texas A&M\u2019s last outing, it dominated LSU in a 49-25 blowout. In the win, Aggies quarterback Marcel Reed<\/a> shined, recording two passing touchdowns, while notching two scores with his legs as well.<\/p>\n

Sitting at 8-0, Texas A&M hasn\u2019t shown any signs of slowing down. On Saturday, Missouri will look to pull off the upset as it takes on the Aggies at 2:30 p.m. CT. The game will air live on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, No. 3 Texas A&M will invade Memorial Stadium for a showdown against No. 22 Missouri. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-276136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}