TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Kevin Sumlin and Texas A&M have an extra week to try to determine what's gone wrong in a season that once held great promise.
It's going to be a busy seven days.
The 21st-ranked Aggies were dominated on both sides of the ball, and from start to finish, in Saturday's 59-0 loss to No. 7 Alabama that pushed the losing streak to three games.
It was Texas A&M's first shutout since losing 77-0 to Oklahoma in 2003, and the program's second-most lopsided defeat.
"Coach Sumlin just said, `Nobody get down on each other," Aggies quarterback Kenny Hill said. "`We're going to need everybody. You can't point a finger at one person. It's a group effort.' We just have to come out after this bye week and do what we've been doing."
Texas A&M (5-3, 2-3 Southeastern Conference) has lost the past three games to teams now ranked in the top 10. The Aggies, once ranked as high as No. 6, have a bye week before facing Louisiana-Monroe.
For Alabama (6-1, 3-1), Blake Sims passed for 268 yards and three touchdowns and scored on a 43-yard run while leading the Tide to 35 second-quarter points.
Alabama shut down the nation's No. 4 offense and dominated a game that had produced two straight thrillers.
"I think this is as close as we can get to the Alabama football that we want to try to get from our players in terms of effort, toughness, emotional excitement and execution that we got throughout the game," Alabama coach Nick Saban said.
Led by Sims, T.J. Yeldon and Amari Cooper, Alabama outgained the Aggies 602-172.
The Tide set a school record for most points in a quarter and matched the second-most scored in a half while racing to a 45-0 halftime lead.
It was Alabama's largest margin of victory since a 62-0 defeat of Tulane in 1991. It was also the Tide's most lopsided SEC win since beating Vanderbilt 66-3 in 1979.
Alabama fell only four points shy of the largest margin of victory over a Top 25 team, trailing No. 8 Florida State's 63-0 win over No. 25 Maryland in 2013 and UCLA's 66-3 win over No. 11 Texas in 1997.
Yeldon had 114 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries, all in the first half. Cooper gained 140 yards on eight catches with a pair of touchdowns.
Sims completed 16 of 27 passes before exiting midway through the third quarter.
By halftime, it seemed Alabama could name its score.
The Tide had 30 first downs to Texas A&M's eight after facing doubters following a 14-13 win over Arkansas and a loss to No. 3 Mississippi.
Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M had set a record for an Alabama opponent with 628 total yards last season in a 49-42 loss. The Aggies came in averaging 565 yards a game, but Sumlin called the performance "embarrassing."
"I thought we were prepared," Sumlin said. "I thought we had energy during the pregame warmups. Obviously the performance was extremely poor."
Hill could never get them going. He was 17 of 26 passing for just 138 yards -- 220 below his average -- and was intercepted for the sixth time in three games long after the outcome was determined.
Freshman Kyle Allen replaced Hill in the fourth quarter and had to chase down a high snap in the end zone on his first play.
"It's not just the quarterback," Sumlin said. "There are 10 other guys out there. They got him off the spot a little bit more than he needed to be. When you get the kind of output we had -- zero -- it's more than just the quarterback."
The Aggies couldn't even get a spark from the return of star receiver Malcome Kennedy from a separated shoulder that sidelined him for two games. Kennedy gained 4 yards on four catches.
"We go into every game expecting to win, expecting a great performance," Kennedy said. "This game we just got exposed a little bit more."
The Tide scored on its first eight possessions, all touchdowns after the opening drive.
Alabama hit the locker room with a 449-51 advantage in yards and no doubt about the outcome.
Texas A&M missed an early opportunity. Deshazor Everett dropped a near-certain pick-6 on the Tide's opening drive. Alabama settled for a field goal.
"We came in confident that we could do all right," Hill said. "It just went down as the game went on."