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A Texas A&M officer was “relieved of his game day assignment” Saturday after exchanging words with South Carolina’s Nyck Harbor after a long touchdown.
After Harbor caught and ran for the 80-yard score, he grabbed his right hamstring and continued walking through a tunnel at Kyle Field.
Several of his teammates joined him and Harbor cautiously exited the tunnel.
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South Carolina Gamecocks wide receiver Nyck Harbor runs with the ball during a college football game against the Texas A&M Aggies on October 28, 2023 at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. (Joe Robbins/Sportswire Icon via Getty Images)
But on the way back, an officer walked between the two and made contact with Harbor and running back Oscar Adaway III.
The officer then reprimanded Harbor, who turned around but continued walking toward the field.
University police announced on X that the officer had been relieved of duty on the day of the game and sent home.
NBA star LeBron James called for the officer to be suspended.
“This A&M cop needs to be suspended! He was premeditated and corny AF!! He went out of his way to start shit. Do better, man,” he posted on X.
The touchdown gave the Gamecocks a 27-3 lead, and that lead would increase to 30-3, but the third-place Aggies stormed back for a wild 31-30 victory.
South Carolina Gamecocks wide receiver Nyck Harbor celebrates a play against Texas A&M Aggies during the second half at Kyle Field. (Dustin Safranek/USA Today Sports)
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Texas A&M outscored South Carolina 28-0 in the second half to complete its greatest comeback ever.
Marcel Reed threw for a career-high 439 yards and three touchdowns to lift the Aggies to 10-0 on the season.
It was the greatest comeback in school history, eclipsing a 21-point rally by a Johnny Manziel-led team in a 52-48 victory in the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl over Duke. Entering Saturday, teams were 0-286 in the Southeastern Conference since 2004 while trailing by 27 points or more.
Reed bounced back from a horrible first half, where he was intercepted twice and had a fumble returned for a score, to put the Aggies in a 30-3 hole with a dazzling second half to keep Texas A&M on track for its first trip to the College Football Playoff.
The Aggies took the lead for the first time on a 4-yard run by EJ Smith with about 11 minutes left.
Texas A&M had a first down at the 1 after that, but Jamarion Morrow fumbled on a trap play and the Gamecocks recovered with about three minutes remaining.
Texas A&M Aggies running back EJ Smith celebrates with wide receiver Izaiah Williams after scoring a touchdown during the fourth quarter against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Kyle Field. (Trojan Taormina/Imagn Images)
Dalton Brooks and Cashius Howell sacked LaNorris Sellers on consecutive plays to go on fourth-and-16 with about 90 seconds left. Sellers rushed on fourth down and he was stopped short of the first marker to seal the victory.
Sellers threw for 246 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for South Carolina (3-7, 1-7), which lost a fifth straight game.
