The title race implications are very straightforward on Saturday: If Texas A&M beats Texas at home, then the Aggies are in the Red River Conference final.

A TAMU loss, however, means LSU can move right in.

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Texas A&M knows the importance of the game, said center and captain Braeden Hood.

"We just have to play the exact same way we did against LSU, in reality," Hood said. "We have to keep the pressure on Texas, especially maintaining defensive pressure."

The Aggies lost to LSU 17-10 on February 17 but rebounded two weeks later in College Station with a 29-14 victory over the same Tigers team. A&M garnered six points from the two games (four for a win, one for a close loss, and one for four tries in the second game), while LSU got just four. That's the difference in the RRRC standings right there: The Tigers trail the Aggies by two points with one game to go.

LSU just beat Texas 71-17, but Hood said his team is not taking the Longhorns lightly.

"In this league, any given day, a team can beat you," he said. "Someone can switch on, or switch off. There are so many factors involved. LSU against Texas is not us and Texas. We're playing a team this Saturday, not last Saturday."

And that second game, the win against LSU, showed what A&M can do.

"It was a little bit more cohesion for the whole team," Hood said. "The first game against LSU we had some guys just coming back to the team and guys playing in positions they hadn't really played before. But the second time we had been able to work on some internal synergies, and we also knew what it meant. If we lost that second game, it was the end of our season."

Hood said the Aggies are playing better off the ball and with a common mindset.

"We had some guys who were just running, but now they're working with a purpose," Hood said.

Texas, meanwhile, has enjoyed a vastly improved season compared to last year and can finish 5-3 with a win. Center Robert Hughes is far and away the team's leading try-scorer, but prop Patrick Walters has been prominent on the scoresheet, as has flanker/hooker Lior Vansteenkiste.