The pick six was the reason that the Aggy game last season wasn't a blowout and a shutout, which would have been very satisfying after all the hype and playing on their sacred grass. They had convinced themselves it had all come together for them last season, a big home victory over the hated sips in their first season in the SEC SEC that would send them to the championship game in Atlanta.
I have been to plenty of these games in the past against them and it started becoming more and more less enjoyable every time the game was in Collie. It's not the dread of losing; it's just the whole experience of going there. They are on a whole another level of strangeness. It was hard to explain to anybody that doesn't experience it for themselves.
After the Tucker field goal that won that last game there before they left for the SEC, I was personally glad we wouldn't be playing those people anymore. I wouldn't miss playing them at all and was glad they were somebody's else's problem and let them see them for who they are. I guess they couldn't muster (good Aggy term) the same hate for anybody else like they did for the sips, so maybe no other fan base could get the full Aggy experience we did. At least they do know and make fun of their beyond strange cult ways. Midnight Yell has really been fun as other schools make fun of that.
We knew it was coming as the super conferences started to become reality and Bellmont wanted to get in as soon as possible. Joining the ACC or Big Ten wasn't much of an option, and we know what happened to the Pac 10, that looked like a destination once upon a time. Money talks and the SEC was certainly the premier choice at the time. November games in the north were nothing to look forward to in the Big Ten.
So, we are stuck with Aggy again, that's the reality now. Might as just beat the hell out of them all over again. Still, I could have lived without them and their cultish behavior.