The first thing that pops out to me is that KSU will be (by far) the most physical team that Texas A&M has faced this year.
On offense, the combination of Barnes and Jones are better running backs than they have faced in probably a couple of years, and Jesse will add the mobile dimension they don't get in the pass happy SEC. On the other hand their DE Milo Garnett is a handful and might be the next DE picked in the draft after Willis. Our vertical passing game will be limited, I am not sure we will see the 25 yd routes and completions we've been used to this year.
KSU will also likely be the best defense they will face all year as well. While the standard bend-but-don't-break defenses of the SEC could be exploited by Trevor Knight (who ironically was a bust at OU), I believe the aggressive man to man we play will confuse them and we should hopefully be able to push around their finesse WRs. I am a bit concerned about the mobility of Knight, in the couple of games we lost it was because our contain wasn't very good.
I will do some more tape watching in the coming weeks and crunch the numbers, but this is a good match up for us I think. Early thoughts:
KSU 45
aTM 10