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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- It was fun while it lasted. Tennessee turned out to be more of a College Football Playoff summer fling than a relationship that would last until the committee picks four teams.The Vols showed college football another good time on Saturday at Kyle Field. But a team that commits seven turnovers and 12 penalties is not one you can take home to CFP chair Kirby Hocutt.With all of its mistakes, No. 9 Tennessee still came back from a 21-point deficit, still scored twice in the last 2:07 and still forced No. 8 Texas A&M into two overtimes. But when quarterback Joshua Dobbs threw his second pick, the seventh turnover, the Aggies escaped with a 45-38 victory.They made so many mistakes that Tennessee coach Butch Jones threw in an extra one. Very, very proud of our kids, Jones began. Just the fight in them, the will to win. But again, you cant have eight turnovers.Actually, seven proved to be too many, especially when the Vols coughed up three of them inside the Aggie 10: two during regulation and the game-ending pick.I mean the way that they played this year when their backs are against the wall is incredible ... and they did that once again, Texas A&M quarterback Trevor Knight said, so you got to give them credit for making it a ball game.The Aggies are 6-0 for the first time in head coach Kevin Sumlins five seasons, and that may serve as a salve for the aches the Vols provided. Texas A&M spent the first four games of the season looking as if it had solved the defensive woes that have plagued it throughout Sumlins five seasons.But Tennessee made Texas A&M depend on offense to win. And give credit to Knight. The Oklahoma transfer ran for three touchdowns, including the game-winner, and threw for two more, but completed only 17-of-34 passes and threw two interceptions. Knight throws the prettiest sideline fades you have ever seen but cant complete a pass in the flat. Hes like a chef who whips up a mouth-watering eggs Benedict and cant put a piece of bread in the toaster without burning it.The wizened heads of football believe that bounces even out over time. And lets face it -- the Vols looked like they had built up an overdraft on breaks this season: the overtime victory over Appalachian State; the comeback from 21 down against Florida; the miracle between the hedges last week.Name another team that has fumbled the ball 15 times and lost only three of them. And then came Saturday, when Tennessee had to pay their accounts receivable. The ledger of bounces had to be zeroed out. The Vols fumbled six times and lost five of them.The Vols dispute that all the breaks have gone their way. Five starters didnt start Saturday because of injuries. Three more left the game and didnt come back, including fifth-year senior defensive tackle Danny OBrien, who was strapped onto a board and taken off the field early in the fourth quarter. The initial report from the field said OBrien had movement in all four extremities and was being taken to a local hospital as a precaution. But he flew back to Knoxville on the team plane.Despite all of their mistakes, and all of their injuries, Tennessee spotted Texas A&M a 28-7 lead and delivered another remarkable performance. Dobbs led the offense to 684 yards. He threw for 398 yards and one touchdown and caught a touchdown pass from Jauan Jennings, the Hail Mary hero against Georgia. And yet nothing the offense did compared to the play that corner Malik Foreman made with just under 2:00 to play.With Texas A&M leading 35-28, tailback Trayveon Williams broke free from the Aggie 27 and raced down the left sideline. Williams, a freshman, rushed for 217 yards and a touchdown on 28 carries, but the 218th yard will stick with him for a long time.Williams carried the ball in his right arm, to the field, and Foreman took off after him. Foreman lunged inside the five, and with Williams at the 1, he punched the ball out of Williams arm with such force that the ball bounded straight out of the back of the end zone.Auburn fans still swoon at the name of Antoine Carter, the Tiger who punched the ball out of Crimson Tide tailback Mark Ingrams grasp in the 2010 Iron Bowl, sparking the Tigers comeback from 24 points down to win 28-27. Foremans play should rank ahead of Carter for the distance he ran. The turnover precipitated the Vols moving 80 yards for the tying touchdown in six plays and 1:08.Texas A&M came right back down the field and set up kicker Daniel LaCamera to make a 38-yard game-winner with eight seconds left. When Jones called two timeouts to ice him and LaCamera badly hooked his kick, it looked as if the Vols had found one more week of magic.You could not script everything that happened, Sumlin said. I said it last week. This team is not about panicking. ... There have been instances where things like that start sliding, and you cant get it back.An Aggie defense that had been on the field for 94 plays in regulation kept the Vols out of the end zone in overtime. LaCamera, just a few minutes after missing the game winner, came back onto the field and tied the game at the end of the first overtime. Knight scored from 1 yard out, and when Armani Watts made a diving pick of Dobbs at the Aggie 6, Tennessees season of storybook comebacks came to a halt.Minutes after the game, the Aggies lined up and faced their fans, each side arm in arm, singing the Aggie War Hymn. The swaying, braying sea of maroon in the east stands had several orange stripes. 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Given 16 overs, the Indian bowlers tried desperately for a breakthrough, and succeeded less than 10 minutes before the end of play on the second day.That India could declare with more than an hour to stumps was down to Kohlis scoring rate. While Kohli went at 4.2 an over and Amit Mishra and the tail swung their bats pushing for a declaration, the rest of the side managed 282 runs in 101.5 overs. Kohlis intent - helped, no doubt, by a flat pitch and tiring bowlers - foiled West Indies plan pretty much from ball one: bowl defensively and ensure your stacked-up batting line-up has less time to survive. Apart from Shannon Gabriel, the bowlers - there was only one other specialist in the side - did not actively look for wickets and instead relied on frustrating batsmen. However, Kohli, who became Indias first captain to score an away double, took risks and made the bowlers bowl to him, because he was driving the wide ones too.Gabriel, though, should have had his second wicket early on the second day. West Indies wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich had waited for 97 overs for his first opportunity at a dismissal. When Gabriel produced the outside edge from Ashwin, his eagerness to celebrate led to a sitter being grassed. Ashwin was on 43 then. West Indies still managed to keep him quiet - at one point he went 40 balls for four runs - but Kohli, who resumed the day on 143 not out, kept finding a way around the defensive lines.As was the case on day one, Gabriel bowled a short burst with the new ball, and Carlos Brathwaite followed up with a spell that tested the batsmens patience by bowling a set of stumps outside off. The tactic had kept Indias top order quiet in the first session of the match, but Kohli didnt wait for too long before taking a calculated risk, executing it so well that it didnt look like a risk. Kohli has his own way of choosing what balls to drive. Each delivery of Brathwaites first three overs was bowled to Kohli, who attempted to score off only one, the widest of the lot. It wasnt aa half-volley either, but Kohli drove superbly on the up, and got a boundary to break any pressure the joining of dots creates.dddddddddddd.Cover-driving, as usual, remained the feature of Kohlis innings. When he gave the treatment to Devendra Bishoo in the 105th over, the boundary took him past his previous best of 169 and brought up his 50th run through the covers. A sign of how well he batted came when, in the 113th over, he played perhaps the only ungainly shot of his innings, a half-sweep across the line to deep midwicket. As it turned out, he had picked the rare wrongun from Bishoo, and was actually playing with the spin.No Test double is easy, but in the last over before lunch, Kohli strolled to one of the more inevitable ones with an easy single off a short offbreak. Kohli hadnt really played the punch off the back foot on this slow track but, perhaps looking for even quicker runs, he tried that after lunch and ended up playing Gabriel onto his stumps. Ceasefire followed. West Indies went back to bowling defensively with defensive fields, with spinners on at both ends, which helped improve their over rate. Ashwin and Wriddhiman Saha didnt look too fussed in a 71-run partnership that took 24.4 overs.Slow pitch, fielders in front, no pace to work with, and West Indies finally had a quiet half session. Ashwin didnt look in any hurry, Saha tried to break the monotony, succeeding on a couple of occasions before getting stumped. Dowrich finally had a maiden Test dismissal. Overall, though, West Indies refused to attack, which could have risked giving India scoring opportunities, and India didnt seem overly bothered with the slow going.Seven minutes before tea, with a back-foot punch through midwicket, Ashwin brought up his hundred, reminding one of the shot of the day, a back-foot punch through mid-on for four. Mishras enterprise at the other end - his fourth half-century came off only 68 balls - gave India the push they needed. Tired minds and bodies dropped three catches; the time seemed right for a declaration.In the overs that followed, Kohli tried a lot of attacking options: three slips and a gully, an extra gully and really full outswingers, short leg and backward short leg for short-pitched bowling, and his trump card R Ashwin. Rajendra Chandrika, who had earlier gloved an Ishant Sharma bouncer over the keeper, finally succumbed in the 15th over, edging Shami through to the keeper. ' ' '