Southeastern Conference announces Texas A&M's 2024 football schedule
Followers of Texas A&M football already knew the 2024 season starts with a home game on Aug. 31 against Notre Dame and ends at Kyle Field on Nov. 30 against Texas.
The Aggies now know when they will play in between.
On Wednesday night, the Southeastern Conference announced the remaining schedules for league games next season.
The season-opener will match new A&M coach Mike Elko against his former quarterback at Duke. Riley Leonard transferred to Notre Dame last week.
Elko was also Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator in 2017.
Of course, the clash with Texas will be the return of a long, storied rivalry that was last played in 2011.
Alongside Notre Dame and Texas, the Aggies will play host to McNeese State (Sept. 7), Bowling Green (Sept. 21), New Mexico State (Nov. 16), LSU (Oct. 26) and Missouri (Oct. 5).
The LSU-A&M clash marks the first October clash between the rivals since 2012. Other than the 2020 pandemic year, it will be the first time since 2014 that the Aggies and Tigers won’t vie in the last game of the regular season.
The Aggies' first road game will be to Florida on Sept. 14. It’s A&M’s second trip to Gainesville since joining the SEC in 2012. A&M prevailed 19-17 in Gainesville in 2017.
A&M’s next conference game is against Arkansas at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Sept. 28. The Aggies have won 10 of 11 SEC games over the Razorbacks.
The following week Missouri travels to Kyle Field for the first time since 2014 when the Tigers won, 34-27.
A&M travels to Mississippi State on Oct. 19 and then returns to College Station to face LSU on Oct. 26.
In November, the Aggies are on the road to South Carolina. A&M leads that series 8-1 but lost on its last trip to Columbia.
On Nov. 23, A&M travels to Auburn, where they are 4-2, but lost 13-10 there in 2022.
2024 Texas A&M football schedule
- Aug. 31 - vs. Notre Dame - Bryan-College Station, TX
- Sept. 7 - vs. McNeese State - Bryan-College Station, TX
- Sept. 14 - at Florida - Gainesville, FL
- Sept. 21 - vs. Bowling Green - Bryan-College Station, TX
- Sept. 28 - vs. Arkansas* - Arlington, TX
- Oct. 5 - vs. Missouri - Bryan-College Station, TX
- Oct. 19 - at Mississippi State - Starkville, MS
- Oct. 26 - vs. LSU - Bryan-College Station, TX
- Nov. 2 - at South Carolina - Columbia, TX
- Nov. 16 - vs. New Mexico State - Bryan-College Station, TX
- Nov. 23 - at Auburn - Auburn, AL
- Nov. 30 - vs. Texas - Bryan-College Station, TX
Home games in bold
* - Denotes neutral site game
The Chicken Ranch said:
Why are we playing a SEC game the weekend before rivalry week?
Because we can't have nice things and need to drop a trap game to a terrible team to knock us out of the playoff conversation before we play tu
Edit: comma
The home team of the rivalry game is on the road the previous week, while the visiting rival team is at home the week before, except OU and LSU (not really known as rivals) who both play at home the week before.
- Notre Dame
- tu
- LSU
I wonder what marquee home games we'll have
Dr. Alister MacKenzie said:
Zero reason this isn't at least a 8-4 season. Cupcake almost.
7-5 or 6-6 if portal situation doesn't improve.
It's still Elkos first season. Gonna be some growing pains.
Why are LSU and OU playing on Rivalry Week? I get is and tu playing that weekend. OU should be playing Missouri (old Big8/XII natural rivalry), and LSU/Arky should return that weekend. None of this makes any sense. I don't think anyone in Missouri or Arkansas cares about their game, and certainly doesn't care if it's played on Rivalry Week. This was not a well thought out schedule.
OSU and KU need to nut up and play OU and MU respectively that weekend, and return their natural rivals. That makes it easy for A&M/tu and LSU/Arky.
And please dear God, if we go to 9 games, let's start SEC play with LSU, and end SEC play with tu.
Be careful what you wish for.
I have long been a proponent of 9 games, 4 team pods, perms from every pod, and rotate pod pairings for a division every two years. But no one listens to me.