Texas A&M football

After an embarrassing loss to Appalachian State last night, there's a lot of talk swirling around the Texas A&M football team and their quarterback.

Coach Fisher was asked after the game if there will be a change at quarterback for next week’s matchup against the Hurricanes. One of the main reasons King won the starting job out of camp was because he fit the mold Fisher was looking for when it came to being more aggressive on offense. In a season where things are supposed to start coming together, things have taken a big turn with an ugly loss to the Mountaineers. So now, the question is if Johnson will get a chance to start, or at least get considerable playing time against Miami this week. A few days before the season started, head coach Jimbo Fisher announced that [Haynes King had won the starting quarterback job](https://gigemgazette.com/2022/08/27/texas-am-football-haynes-king-qb1-2/) over LSU transfer Max Johnson and true freshman Conner Weigman. [Devon Achane](https://12thman.com/sports/football/roster/devon-achane/10583), our player of the game.

The Auburn Tigers managed to avoid that fate by pulling away from the San Jose State Spartans, but other SEC teams were not so fortunate. In the west, the then- ...

Every team from Alabama down to Ole Miss is technically tied, while [Texas A&M](https://aggieswire.usatoday.com/) Aggies were felled by Appalachian State, causing them to fall to No. In the west, the then-No.

Coach Jimbo Fisher should reevaluate the quarterback position after Texas A&M lost at home on Saturday to Appalachian State.

It’s obvious he does not have the confidence in his game to do so, certainly not at this stage in his development. The fact that Fisher is convinced that King is further along than Johnson is telling. If King is going to step up, the first thing he has to do is lead. But perhaps the most disheartening aspect of the game does not show up in the stat sheet. And maybe that should be the most disappointing aspect of the unforgivable loss. If anything, King regressed in Game 2 of his return to the starting lineup after an injury ended his 2021 season barely more than one game into it.

Following Texas A&M football's upset loss to Appalachian State, we share our takeaways from the Aggies' performance on Saturday.

A 1-3 start is not out of the realm of possibility, and that would be a disaster for the program. The only year the Aggies had a legitimate shot at the College Football Playoff was the COVID-shortened 2020 season, and even then, they couldn’t get past Alabama in the SEC West. Now that the Aggies lost one of those games, they could be in for a very rough road ahead. The second college football Saturday of the season is in the books, and what a day it was. The Aggies played host to Appalachian State, a school they paid $1.5 million to play them, in what should have been an easy win. Ideally, A&M’s first two games of the season would have been a warm-up for the true tests to come.