Texas A&M completes largest comeback in school history to stun South Carolina (2:07)Trailing 30-3 in the first half, Texas A&M scores 28 unanswered points to complete the largest comeback in school history. (2:07)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Marcel Reed threw for a career-high 439 yards and three touchdowns and No. 3 Texas A&M rallied from a 27-point deficit to remain undefeated with a 31-30 victory over South Carolina on Saturday.
It’s the biggest comeback in school history, eclipsing a 21-point rally by a Johnny Manziel-led team in a 52-48 win in the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl over Duke. Entering Saturday, teams were 0-286 in Southeastern Conference play since 2004 when trailing by 27 points or more.
Reed bounced back from an awful first half where he was intercepted twice and had a fumble returned for a score to put the Aggies in a 30-3 hole with a dazzling second half to keep Texas A&M (10-0, 7-0) on track for its first trip to the College Football Playoff and SEC title game appearance.
Sellers threw for 246 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for South Carolina (3-7, 1-7), which lost a fifth straight game.
Izaiah Williams caught a 27-yard TD pass from Reed to make it 30-10 on A&M’s first drive of the second half. Reed had a 16-yard run on fourth-and-12 to keep the drive alive.
Reed’s 14-yard pass to Nate Boerkircher cut the lead to a touchdown late in the third quarter. That score was set up by a short pass that Bethel-Roman turned into a 76-yard reception the play before.
KC Concepcion had seven receptions for 158 yards and Bethel-Roman added 139 yards receiving for the Aggies.
The Gamecocks took a 10-3 lead when Sellers connected with Vandrevius Jacobs on a 50-yard touchdown pass.
They pushed the lead to 17-3 when 322-pound defensive tackle Nick Barrett scooped up a fumble by Reed and rumbled 17-yards for a score late in the first quarter.
South Carolina was up by 17 late in the second quarter when Brooks intercepted a pass from Sellers and returned it 39 yards to give the Aggies a first down at the 6. Concepcion couldn’t reel in two straight passes in the end zone before Randy Bond missed his second field goal of the half to leave Texas A&M emptyhanded.
Reed was picked off again two plays later and South Carolina tacked on a field goal to make it 30-3 at halftime.
Texas A&M completes largest comeback in school history to stun South Carolina (2:07)Trailing 30-3 in the first half, Texas A&M scores 28 unanswered points to complete the largest comeback in school history. (2:07)
Trailing 30-3 in the first half, Texas A&M scores 28 unanswered points to complete the largest comeback in school history. (2:07)