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WATCH: Texas A&M trolls Stephen A. Smith after win

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Saturday, Oct. 9 will go down in history books as a day that turned the 2021 college football season on its head, with shootouts and come-from-behind victories galore, with upsets aplenty and records being broken, with heated rivalries and highlight-reel plays — and yet somehow, everything that transpired still seems to pale in comparison to unranked Texas A&M upsetting No. 1 Alabama, 41-38.

Among the many shocking storylines of the Aggies’ signature win was the fact that Nick Saban lost his first-ever game to a former assistant in Jimbo Fisher, dropping to 24-1` on his career. Meanwhile, Alabama’s 100-game win streak against unranked opponents, which dated back to 2007, ended Saturday. And of course, perhaps the most shocking part, it was Texas A&M of all schools — the same Aggies that lost to both No. 13 Arkansas and unranked Mississippi State — that upended the Crimson Tide.

But as the night turned to the early morning, it soon became clear that Texas A&M wasn’t done picking up victories. They claimed another at 1:45 a.m. ET on Twitter, grilling ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith for his freezing cold take on the network earlier this week.

“They’re going to get beat down,” Smith said of Texas A&M heading into a primetime showdown with Alabama. “A massacre is coming.”

The video then cuts to the Texas A&M Aggies’ postgame locker room celebration, poking fun at Smith, while they dance in pure bliss following the win.

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It’s a night that Texas A&M won’t soon forget, and for good reason. The first half was all Aggies — Jimbo Fisher’s unranked Texas A&M team hit the locker room for halftime with a 24-10 lead, one that in most cases would all but seal the fate of the game. But against the No. 1 Crimson Tide, Texas A&M was still not the favorite to win at halftime, even with a sizable lead.

Surely enough, Alabama did its best to prove why that’s the case. The Crimson Tide put up a 14-point third quarter, then another 14-point fourth quarter, capped off by a seven-yard touchdown pass from Bryce Young to Jameson Williams and a two-point conversion, to give Texas A&M the ball back with a seven-point deficit and five minutes remaining.

Texas A&M made the most of its final possession, however, scoring a 25-yard touchdown pass from Zach Calzada to Ainias Smith; the ensuing extra point conversion made it a 38-38 ballgame, and Alabama was unable to score the go-ahead touchdown or field goal shortly thereafter. Instead, it was Texas A&M — and kicker Seth Small — that managed to get just enough offense to set up a game-winning, 28-yard field goal that will surely go down in Texas A&M history.