Ten takeaways from a wet and wild day of college football:

1) Texas A&M finally did what everyone else on Tennessee’s schedule failed to do – the Aggies drove a stake through the VoLuckteers.

Not that it was easy.

After weeks of flirting with disaster, Tennessee finally consummated the relationship by committing seven turnovers – the final one a Josh Dobbs interception in double-overtime that clinched the Aggies’ 45-38 victory. But damned if the Vols didn’t nearly pull another comeback victory out of nowhere, the same way they did against Georgia and Appalachian State and to a lesser degree Ohio.

Tennessee cornerback Malik Foreman may have made the defensive play of the year to give the Vols life, punching the ball out of the arm of A&M running back Trayveon Williams about a yard before Williams crossed the goal line with what would have been the back-breaking touchdown and a 14-point lead with less than two minutes left. (This is an occupational hazard when a running back carries the ball in his inside arm, instead of switching it to the arm closest to the boundary. Harder to get at the ball when it is on the outside.) Instead of a score, the ball went into the end zone and then out of bounds for a touchback, and Tennessee promptly drove for the tying score in the final minute.

Yet even then, A&M had the last chance and drove into field-goal range. That’s when Daniel LaCamera smother-hooked it from 39 yards out on the final play of regulation, and for all the world it looked like the Vols would escape once more in overtime.

But the Aggies had been down this road before as well. In the season opener they coughed up a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter against UCLA, then regrouped to win in overtime. They did it again Saturday, with LaCamera getting some redemption with a tying field goal in the first OT and quarterback Trevor Knight scoring the winning TD in the second extra period.

And now Texas A&M is 6-0 for the first time since 1994, with a bye week before visiting Alabama – which will be coming off a game Oct. 15 at Tennessee. That is shaping up (for now) as the Game of the Year in the SEC.

Along the way to 6-0, one storyline has disappeared: Kevin Sumlin on the hot seat. The fifth-year coach of the Aggies has solidified his position even more than a prohibitive buyout could have. His team is more physical, better defensively and better at avoiding mistakes than the past couple of years.

And transfer quarterback Trevor Knight is giving Sumlin his best dual-threat presence since Johnny Manziel. Remember that it was Manziel who led the Aggies to a huge upset over No. 1, undefeated Alabama in Tuscaloosa four years ago. Knight could get the same scenario Oct. 22.

2) One significant ripple effect from A&M beating Tennessee: it makes the Hurricane Matthew postponed-not-canceled LSU-Florida game all the more important.

Tennessee’s loss puts the Vols in a tie in the loss column in the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division with Florida. Tennessee owns the head-to-head tiebreaker, but if the Volunteers lose another league game (and Alabama certainly presents that possibility next week), it could give the Gators the inside track for the East.

If Florida ends up 6-1 in league play and Tennessee is 6-2, the LSU-Florida game will have to be played. Commissioner Greg Sankey said Saturday that the game needs to happen, and there is pretty much one way to make it happen: buy both teams out of their annual November cupcake games on Nov. 19, the Gators against Presbyterian and the Tigers against South Alabama, and then play the postponed game then.

That will cost millions of dollars, but the SEC has millions to spare. LSU fans have been whining at top volume for three days about the possibility of closing the season at Arkansas, at Florida, at Texas A&M – but sometimes hurricanes happen and the solutions are not always convenient. Deal with it.

It’s true that the league and schools probably could have dealt with the impending hurricane rescheduling sooner than they did, and possibly could have played the game Sunday or Monday in Gainesville. But with so much uncertainty about how the state of Florida would be affected by the hurricane, moving the game completely off that weekend still seems like the most prudent course of action.

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