Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher pokes at TCU for historic loss to Georgia: "When they got to the SEC, it changed"

TCU was on the wrong end of a 58-point loss to Georgia in the College Football Playoff national title game, and now a famous coach at a nearby school is in the mood to talk about it.

Texas A&M football coach Jimbo Fisher was in TCU's backyard, Fort Worth, recently talking to some Aggie boosters and made sure to remind everyone what happened on that field, and what it says about the SEC.

Fisher was asked about TCU's magical run up to the national championship during a speaking engagement at the Fort Worth A&M Club, in reference to the Horned Frogs unlikely outing last season.

"They stayed healthy," Fisher said with a laugh, according to 247Sports.

"They had a lot of experience. They got to where they've got to get to. And then when they got to the SEC, it changed, didn't it? When they got to the SEC, it changed."

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TCU went undefeated in the regular season with some close, dramatic victories: six of its wins were by one score, including a heart-stopping win over Baylor when it rushed the field goal unit out with almost no time left.

The Horned Frogs took down Big Ten champion Michigan in a hectic College Football Playoff Fiesta Bowl semifinal but had no answers for Georgia, which smashed TCU by a historic 65-7 score, the widest margin in a postseason game in the sport's history.

"They found those inches. We let them slip," Fisher said, giving credit to TCU for its regular season play, comparing that team to Texas A&M during its special run in 2020, when the Aggies went 9-1 and won the Orange Bowl.

"In 2020, we made all of those plays. In 2022, we didn't make those plays. They made them last year. They found the inches. They found the chemistry. The secret to it is no secret. There is no coaching you put into it. It is about doing what you have to each and every day to create the habits, so when the pressure time comes, they did."

Fisher hopes Texas A&M can find those inches this season, two years removed from an upset victory over No. 1 Alabama, and coming off a meager campaign a year ago that resulted in a 2-6 record against SEC competition.

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