Maybe too much is being made of LSU and Texas A&M squaring off Saturday night as the last two teams unbeaten in the Southeastern Conference.

No. 14 Texas A&M (6-1, 4-0 SEC) enters the game halfway through its conference schedule. No. 8 LSU (6-0, 3-0) won’t reach the halfway mark with this game.

So it won’t clinch anything. Both will still have significant obstacles in the weeks ahead.

But it’s a start toward reaching the SEC Championship game in Atlanta.

Oh, and don’t forget the College Football Playoff implications.

Nothing can be clinched there either — the first rankings don’t come out until Nov. 5 — but with the expanded 12-team playoff, getting a spot in the conference title game would likely be a deal-clincher.

LSU head coach Brian Kelly said his Tigers are ready for the challenge.

“There’s enough players that have been down this road before and understand … it’s a week-to-week thing,” he said. “Our guys stay in the present. Whatever the narratives are and whatever people are saying, we’ve already kind of covered it with them.”

“It’s going to be an opportunity for us to go out there and show we belong on this stage and take this program where we all thought we wanted it to go,” Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko said. “They’re a great team,” he said of the Tigers.

Kelly reached the SEC title game in his first year at LSU in 2022. Elko is in his first year at Texas A&M, trying to get the Aggies to the Atlanta game for the first time.

Yet two teams that took similar paths to this stage after losing their season openers will likely attack the game differently.

LSU’s once-anemic running game is coming along, mostly behind true freshmen Caden Durham, who had 101 yards and three touchdowns last week against Arkansas.

That would come in handy, but the Tigers’ biggest advantage will likely be quarterback Garrett Nussmeier, the SEC’s second-leading passer who is No. 1 in touchdown throws, against a suspect Aggies secondary that most recently gave up 242 yards to Mississippi State.

Texas A&M doesn’t throw as much with quarterback Conner Weigman, but the Aggies are the SEC’s second-leading rushing team (219 ypg) and lead the league in yards per rush at 5.37.

The key is Le’Veon Moss, who grew up right outside of Baton Rouge in Walker, and is the SEC’s second-leading rusher at 96 yards per game.

In short, the Aggies get more than half of their total offense on the ground while almost three-quarters of the Tigers’ output has been through the air.

But LSU has shown it can win in different ways.

Two-score deficits? No problem. The Tigers were down 17 points before rallying to beat South Carolina on the road. It was an early 10-0 deficit at home to Ole Miss before rallying to win a game it never led until the final play in overtime.

Or there’s last week’s 34-10 start-to-finish domination of Arkansas, which may have unlocked the key to winning on the road in a hostile environment.

Kelly said he knows which way he prefers — and hopes to see in what figures to be a rollicking Kyle Field.

“The first time we played on the road against South Carolina I thought we were reactive,” Kelly said. “We waited for things to happen and we got down 17 points.

“Against Arkansas, we didn’t wait around and that’s the way we need to play against an outstanding A&M team.”