TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Hey, Texas A&M. The Southeastern Conference called. And bring your playbook.

You may have Johnny Football, the most exciting player in college football since RG took his III to the NFL, and you may have proved everyone wrong about your ability to compete in the toughest league in the game. But you also may have ended the SEC's streak of six consecutive BCS championships.

To put it in terms you may understand in your part of Texas, they don't cotton to that around here.

No. 15 Texas A&M stunned No. 1 Alabama 29-24, and the Aggies may have to rename themselves the Trojan Horses.

Johnny Manziel got A&M off to the start it needed, with three scoring drives in the first quarter. John David Mercer/US Presswire

"You trying to make me the villain?" Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin asked. "Well, there's 120 other teams that are happy. No one is going to ask me anymore if we deserve to be here."

No, they're not. As defensive coordinator Mark Snyder said, "We beat them. It shouldn't have been that close."

Led by redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel -- that's Johnny Football to you at home -- Texas A&M won its first-ever game in Bryant-Denny Stadium by scoring touchdowns on its first three possessions. Manziel did his best Doug Flutie imitation in establishing that 20-0 lead. In the first half, he scrambled and passed for 200 yards.

In the second half, when the Crimson Tide's defense figured out how to chop off his running lanes, Manziel still gained another 145 yards of total offense. He finished 24-of-31 for 253 yards and two touchdowns, and ran for another 92 yards.

When Alabama mounted its inevitable comeback, and had first-and-goal at the Aggies' 6 to score the winning touchdown with 3:54 to play, the Aggies' defense not only held, but picked off AJ McCarron on fourth down.

The vendors on Paul W. Bryant Drive who sold T-shirts Saturday commemorating "The Drive" that beat LSU last week won't have any new inventory.