I've spoken with Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin face-to-face twice over the last three months—once at SEC spring meetings in Destin, Florida, in early June, and again in mid-July at SEC media days in Hoover, Alabama.
The overwhelming impression that I received from the fifth-year head coach of the Aggies, who enters the 2015 season on one of the hottest seats in the country, is that he is brimming with confidence.
It's not the most shocking thing in the world.
After all, everybody's undefeated at this point of the season; coaches generally understand that the team is a work-in-progress at this point and have faith in their own ability.