Tag: Texas A&M Football 2024 Schedule

Texas A&M’s head-to-head records against every 2024 SEC opponent

The Aggies hold several head-to-head records against their 2024 SEC slate, but still trail the Texas Longhorns by a significant margin.

Last Wednesday, the SEC Network revealed the entire SEC schedule for the 2024 season, which now stands at 16 teams post-2023, including Texas and Oklahoma. As dates and times remain unannounced, the speculation on how things will play out has already begun in droves.

Outside of the relatively easy draw for the Texas Longhorns, Oklahoma’s brutal slate, including road games at Auburn, LSU, and Ole Miss, and hosting Alabama, Tennessee, and the ascending South Carolina Gamecocks.

Texas A&M can thank the schedule makers for putting them in an incredibly fortunate position to make a legitimate postseason run. Other than their season opener at home against Notre Dame, the Aggies will travel to face Auburn, Florida, Mississippi State, and South Carolina while hosting Missouri, LSU, and Texas, as the Lone Star Showdown’s 13-year layoff is back on track.

Most notably, the Aggies’ avoidance of Alabama and Ole Miss in 2024 are two of the biggest reasons that expectations will be sky-high in what will likely be Jimbo Fisher’s seventh season with the Maroon and White.

How have the Aggies faired against SEC since joining in 2012? Here are the records versus all eight of Texas A&M’s 2024 SEC opponents.

Texas A&M’s 2024 Schedule sets up the Aggies for a legitimate run in the College Football Playoffs

Avoiding Alabama and Georgia in 2024 sets up Texas A&M for a legitimate championship run if all the pieces finally fall into place.

On Wednesday night, the SEC Network released the entire SEC schedule for the 2024 season, focusing on Texas and Oklahoma, who are set to join the Conference that season.

Storylines galore, the East and West divisions will be eliminated, providing a “fair playing field” for every team from a strength of schedule perspective ahead of the 12-team expansion in the College Football Playoff, also occurring in 2024. While most of the media wondered how Alabama head coach Nick Saban was reacting to one of the most demanding schedules in the Conference, Texas A&M’s schedule is beautiful.

With home games against Arkansas (AT&T Stadium), Missouri, LSU, and most notably, the return of the Lone Star Showdown with the Texas Longhorns, who will return to Kyle Field after more than a decade-long layoff. On the road, trips to Auburn, Florida, Mississippi State, and South Carolina will be challenging, but every road game in the SEC presents problems. Overall, the Aggie’s most challenging games against Notre Dame to open the season, Texas and LSU will all be at Kyle Field, emphasizing the importance of avoiding their bi-annual trip to Tuscaloosa.

Now, looking ahead at what Texas A&M will look like after what is hopefully a tremendous bounce back from their brutal 5-7 2022 campaign, the Aggies roster is poised to be elite from head to toe, while the vaunted 2022 recruiting class will be entering its third season including players such as defensive linemen Walter Nolan, Shemar Stewart, wide receivers Evan Stewart and Noah Thomas, and of course, quarterback Conner Weigman.

Combined with more potential transfer portal additions and what will likely be offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino’s second season in Aggieland, everything should be set in place for a legitimate run at a National Championship with 12 playoff spots available. While the 2023 season is on the horizon, it’s never too early to look ahead early, and folks, we’re in for one heck of a show.

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