Brown: Texas A&M shows spirit, but Alabama still runs SEC
(World News USA)

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Texas A&M`s plans for the future of its football program plays out like the plot of pretty much any Star Wars movie. The apprentice rises up and defeats the master to ensure the prosperity of a new band of rebels. All $75 million of Jimbo Fisher`s contract is a bet that he can, even just once, dethrone Alabama and Nick Saban as Southeastern Conference West champs and give A&M permanent standing in college football`s empire. Saturday`s bout played out like the end of Empire Strikes Back. Fisher, a former offensive coordinator for Saban at LSU, matched wits with the six-time national champion for the first time in conference play and left Bryant-Denny Stadium alive...