The Texas A&M Aggies are coming off of an 8-5 season that saw them one win out of the SEC Championship Game in the final week. However, in today’s college football landscape, no roster stays too stagnant from one year to the next.
Heading into 2025 with a new-look squad in Year 2 under Mike Elko, who do the Aggies play in 2025, and what are the top matchups of the season on the Texas A&M football schedule?
Note: We ranked the games on Texas A&M’s schedule based on multiple factors, including but not limited to expected excitement around the opponent, anticipated effect on each team’s season, rivalry impact, and more.
Texas A&M 2025 Football Schedule
- vs. UTSA Roadrunners
Saturday, Aug. 30, time TBA - vs. Utah State Aggies
Saturday, Sept. 6, time TBA - at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Saturday, Sept. 13, time TBA - vs. Auburn Tigers
Saturday, Sept. 27, time TBA - vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs
Saturday, Oct. 4, time TBA - vs. Florida Gators
Saturday, Oct. 11, time TBA - at Arkansas Razorbacks
Saturday, Oct. 18, time TBA - at LSU Tigers
Saturday, Oct. 25, time TBA - at Missouri Tigers
Saturday, Nov. 8, time TBA - vs. South Carolina Gamecocks
Saturday, Nov. 15, time TBA - vs. Samford Bulldogs
Saturday, Nov. 22, time TBA - at Texas Longhorns
Saturday, Nov. 29, time TBA
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12) vs. Samford Bulldogs (Saturday, Nov. 22)
Are you really in the SEC if you’re not playing an FCS program in late November?
In the last four seasons, the Aggies have played against an FCS team in November twice, winning by an average margin of 38.5. This is a business, and while anything is possible in the world of sports, late-season buy games will never be the most anticipated matchup in any schedule.
11) vs. UTSA Roadrunners (Saturday, Aug. 30)
Despite being just a 3.5-hour drive away — as long as vintage Austin, Texas, traffic does not hit you along the way — these programs have played each other just twice since the UTSA Roadrunners got their team started in 2011, playing once in 2016 and once in 2019.
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Unfortunately, these two programs missed each other during the Roadrunners’ heydey under Jeff Traylor, winning consecutive conference titles in 2021 and 2022. Still, with Traylor behind the headset (46-20 at UTSA), this matchup should not be tossed aside if the Roadrunners find life again in 2025.
10) vs. Utah State Aggies (Saturday, Sept. 6)
This Aggies vs. Aggies action would be much less enticing if not for the Utah State Aggies’ offseason, bringing Bronco Mendenhall in as their head coach after one season with the New Mexico Lobos. Mendenhall coached seven nine-win teams between his time with the BYU Cougars and Virginia Cavaliers and is 61-28 in the Mountain West (BYU and New Mexico).
It’s Year 1 for a program building a new identity after a 28-30 run in the last five seasons, but Mendenhall is spearheading the Aggies as they prepare to join the Pac-(2? 12? 8?) in 2026 after finishing 129th in points allowed per game in 2024.
9) vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs (Saturday, Oct. 4)
As much hope as the Mississippi State Bulldogs might have had at the end of the 2024 season, things don’t look as bright in 2025. Kevin Coleman Jr. and Michael Van Buren Jr. are both on their way out, and the Bulldogs are riding on a two-year losing streak to Texas A&M that came at a rate of a -51 point differential.
8) at Arkansas Razorbacks (Saturday, Oct. 18)
Jerry World’s finest finally meet on-campus again after playing in Arlington, Texas, in 13 of their last 16 matchups. The Southwest Classic typically promises to be a tight contest (the final tally has been within two scores every year since 2016), but the Aggies have won 13 of the last 14, and Sam Pittman is likely to be on the hot seat with a 14-28 SEC record.
The Arkansas Razorbacks face a buzzsaw stretch of four games (at Ole Miss, at Memphis, vs. Notre Dame, and at Tennessee) before playing Texas A&M. Are we even sure Pittman will still be there, either physically or mentally? This game might be more appealing if it was in late September, as usual, rather than in mid-October.
7) vs. Auburn Tigers (Saturday, Sept. 27)
The Auburn Tigers’ 2024 victory over the Ags was an overtime thriller that decimated the maroon and white’s SEC title game dreams, forcing them into a narrow avenue where they needed to beat Texas in the season’s final week to advance to the conference championship.
And while the Tigers are just 10-22 in the SEC in their last four seasons, they seem to have an edge over the Aggies, splitting their last four games 2-2 despite A&M holding a +29 point differential over that span, pulling out on-the-margin victories.
These two teams can play as close as they want, but if Hugh Freeze does not improve upon his 5-11 SEC record and Auburn does not figure out who its starting quarterback is for 2024 and/or beyond, then this game may lack the fireworks it had last season. Auburn plays Baylor, Ball State, South Alabama, and Oklahoma before facing the Aggies, not the most promising schedule for the Tigers to know who and what they are.
This game would be better later in the season.
6) at Missouri Tigers (Saturday, Nov. 8)
The Aggies have only met the Missouri Tigers twice since 2014, and as far as the SEC Tiger Power Rankings are concerned, they rank third of three against Texas A&M (.000) since then (Auburn and LSU are both .600). In this list, though, they rank second in terms of their anticipated matchup with the Aggies.
Their meeting in 2024 is a poor example, though, as the Aggies routed the Tigers 41-10 in College Station, Texas, through in-the-trenches domination, with Mizzou ranked 19th at the time with a 4-0 record.
In 2025, Missouri could be a threat again if Beau Pribula finds his form early in his career; with a promising roster around him — a No. 6 transfer portal class, per 247Sports, highlighted by MSU’s Coleman, Louisiana-Monroe’ Ahmad Hardy, and Georgia’s Damon Wilson — Mizzou might be a team worth investing in quickly if they show early promise. And this time, the game isn’t at Kyle Field (four pre-snap penalties vs. Texas A&M).
5) vs. Florida Gators (Saturday, Oct. 11)
The 2024 Florida Gators were better than you remember.
While the transfer portal was not kind to them this offseason, DJ Lagway’s projection is too enticing not to anticipate that he may round into form by early/mid-October.
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With a juggernaut stretch (at Miami, at LSU, and vs. Texas) leading into this game, he should either have his sea legs under him or be completely disoriented. I’m betting on the former.
With J.Michael Sturdivant transferring in and incoming freshmen Dallas Wilson and Vernell Brown III enrolling early, expectations are sky-high for Florida’s offense.
4) vs. South Carolina Gamecocks (Saturday, Nov. 15)
South Carolina is losing some key pieces, but LaNorris Sellers and Dylan Stewart are all you need to be excited for another season of Beamer Ball.
In a lot of ways, these teams are similar. Old-school, grind-it-out teams that want to beef up the line of scrimmage both ways and ground and pound you to death. They don’t care how they score or when they do it as long as they do and you don’t. Both teams want to hit your quarterback, and both team’s quarterbacks don’t take that very kindly.
The Aggies are 9-2 against the South Carolina Gamecocks, but those two came in the last three seasons under Shane Beamer, including a 44-20 beatdown in Elko’s first year in charge. It should be closer than last season, but fireworks are expected regardless of the final score.
3) at LSU Tigers (Saturday, Oct. 25)
Beating the LSU Tigers means something to the Aggies, and that automatically creates a floor regarding anticipation levels for a matchup. Add a commanding 38-23 drubbing last season and a 4-3 Aggie run over the last seven campaigns, and you have a game to mark on your calendars.
These two teams met at the same time in 2024, and the Tigers’ loss in College Station sparked a three-game skid for LSU where Garrett Nussmeier threw five interceptions, completed 56.8% of his passes, took 11 sacks, and seemingly played himself into a return for 2025 rather than a 2024 NFL Draft bid.
Add in an exciting portal class (Patrick Payton, Mansoor Delane, Nic Anderson, Barion Brown, and Tamarcus Cooley, among others) that was ranked No. 1 by 247Sports, and it’s a game worth getting excited for.
2) at Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Saturday, Sept. 13)
Last year’s bout was Stage 1 of the Aggies-Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s home-and-home series, but it feels like it was a decade ago. The next week, Notre Dame took a shocking loss to the Northern Illinois Huskies, and they rattled off 13 straight until their College Football Playoff National Championship loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Things change fast in today’s college football, and now neither team will have the same starting quarterback, Notre Dame has a new defensive coordinator, and both teams lost several key contributors to the NFL Draft. Regardless, an early season battle between two historic programs is a game you can’t miss. Can Jeremiyah Love (14 carries, 91 yards, and one TD) do it again against a traditionally stout defense?
1) at Texas Longhorns (Saturday, Nov. 29)
The score might have been a snooze-fest-esque 17-7 last year, but the game wasn’t. The energy was there, the rivalry was rekindled, and now the Aggies are returning to Austin.
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If there is a rivalry that is this storied being played at the tail end of the season with (as far as both teams hope) both SEC title game and College Football Playoff implications on the line, how is it anything but pure cinema?
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