{"id":1203,"date":"2005-11-26T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T21:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2005-11-26T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T21:53:56","slug":"ags-fall-to-close-2005-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Ags Fall to Close 2005 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aggies wrapped up their disappointing 2005 campaign with an exciting, hard-fought loss to the Texas Longhorns, their traditional archrivals.  Despite outgaining the heavily-favored Longhorns and keeping vaunted Heisman Trophy candidate Vince Young in check, the Aggies just couldn&#8217;t muster enough and came up on the short end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncf\/recap?confId=&#038;gameId=253290245\">40-29<\/a> outcome.<\/p>\n<p>If A&#038;M fans can take any consolation for the loss, there are two items to be considered.  First, despite the score, the defense played an excellent game against one of the strongest, deepest and talent-rich offenses in the nation.  Second, the Aggies may have found their quarterback of the future in redshirt freshman Stephen McGee, making his first start in lieu of injured senior Reggie McNeal.  McGee, recruited for his strong arm, actually showed composed, enthusiastic leadership and a surprising running ability (108 yards, 2 touchdowns) as he topped Young in total yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aggies wrapped up their disappointing 2005 campaign with an exciting, hard-fought loss to the Texas Longhorns, their traditional archrivals. Despite outgaining the heavily-favored Longhorns and keeping vaunted Heisman Trophy candidate Vince Young in check, the Aggies just couldn&#8217;t muster enough and came up on the short end of the 40-29 outcome. If A&#038;M fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}