Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, Sixth Game

The 2026 football season has mostly been a drag for Texas A&M, who are poking along with a 3-2 record and are 3 1/2-point underdogs as the visiting team at Missouri today. The game will begin on ABC at 11:00 AM, and the Aggies have historically done fairly well against this opponent, with an overall record of eleven wins vs. seven losses.

College Football News anticipates the home team will win 27-23 today unless Aggie quarterback Marcel Reed can improve significantly after his showings against Kentucky and LSU, both defeats. 

I don't expect to be watching this game after halftime, unless the Aggies are ahead by at least two touchdowns when the third quarter begins.

Updated 12:44 Saturday: The score is 10-3 with Missouri ahead by a touchdown. A&M is playing fairly well on defense, but Marcel Reed is still ineffective on offense, and possibly, things could improve in the second half.

Final update 2:38 PM Saturday: This game was pathetic and wasted a few hours of my time. Texas A&M went 11-0 before finishing last season with disappointing losses to Texas U and Miami U. Today, Missouri dominated A&M with a 27-6 win. The Aggies were mediocre on offense and defense, and changes will need to be made if this team ever hopes to be respected again. When Missouri can maul them this badly, there will be more defeats suffered in future weeks. Numerous improvements at the quarterback position are necessary.

Additional PS Sunday 12:50 PM: Watching the Aggie football team being shoved around by Missouri in the early game yesterday was frustrating, so I considered an alternative: The Texas U longhorns were playing the Oklahoma U Sooners in a later game. Texas has been designated as the best (number one) college team in America, with Arch Manning as The Super Quarterback. Late yesterday afternoon, I turned on the TV to watch the fourth quarter of that SEC game, and the Sooners were ahead temporarily. Then the score was tied at 24-24, and Manning threw an interception that enabled OU to kick a long field goal with a few seconds remaining, and beat Texas U (27-24) without OT. 

Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, Fifth Game

The 2026 A&M season started fairly well at 2-0, but has sunk into mediocrity (2-2) with sickening losses against Kentucky and LSU. Tomorrow, the Arkansas hogs will visit Kyle Field as a 13 1/2 point visiting underdog. and College Football News has predicted A&M will win at home and cover the spread with a 34-20 victory. Losing to the hogs at home is one of those unacceptable SEC outcomes, so here's hoping Marcel Reed is ready to shine as a successful quarterback. 

Updated 10:16 AM Sunday: The first half was mostly typical A&M vs Arkansas football. The Aggies scored on a long (57-yard) field goal late in the second quarter and led 24-7 at halftime. A&M was playing better against the hogs than they had played against Kentucky and LSU, and won the game 34-7. Wins over the hogs are seldom sensational, but they sure beat losing.

Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, Fourth Game

The Aggies were impressive in their first two games against Missouri State and Arizona State, but they lost their pants and shoes in the third game at home against Kentucky. The next opponent is LSU at Baton Rouge on ABC at 6:30 PM this evening. The home team is an 8 1/2 point favorite, predicted by College Football News to win 31-23.

For A&M, the biggest unknown is whether or not Marcel Reed can settle down and eliminate those pass interceptions. Kentucky's defense made Reed look mediocre in the third game, and may have shaken his confidence, Stuff like that has been known to happen.

Update 9:06 AM Sunday:  I made a late decision Saturday afternoon that I'd try to watch Texas A&M vs LSU. As things worked out, I made it through most of the first quarter, but that was enough since the Aggies were being outplayed on offense, defense and special teams. Things aren't looking good for Mike Elko. I'm glad I bailed out early, since the final score was LSU 35-6, and I hate LSU almost as much as I hate the Texas U longhorns.

Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, Third Game

The Texas A&M football team has looked fairly impressive in the first two games, so I hope they can continue to win comfortably today against the Kentucky Wildcats (1-1) at Kyle Field (on ESPN at 2:30 PM). The Aggies are 16.5-point favorites, and College Football News is predicting A&M will win 34-17. I would personally enjoy watching another win like the one against Arizona State last week.

Added 4:10 PM: The game's been a struggle for both teams, and the score is tied at 7-7 at the halftime. 

Added 5:06 PM:  At the end of the third quarter, Kentucky is ahead 28-7, and the Aggies are not accomplishing anything good on offense, defense, or special teams. This is the biggest stinking mess I've seen since the last two games of last season.

Final update 6:05 PM: It's hard to accept, but today, Kentucky looked more like the good team that was ready to play well than the Aggies did. It's frustrating to watch Marcel Reed because he's too inconsistent. Final score: Kentucky 31 Texas A&M 21. There probably won't be many A&M games remaining on the schedule that will be worth the waste of time it takes to watch. 

Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, Second Game

I don't expect the Aggies to win by fifty points again when they take on Arizona State at Kyle Field at 11:00 AM on ESPN. The line on the game is Aggies by 14 1/2 points. College Football News is predicting an A&M win by 34-20. Winning this game by two touchdowns would encourage support for the team, but an Aggie win by any margin will be welcomed.

I was expecting this game to be a slugfest, and at halftime, the Aggies are leading 17-10.

Added 2:35 PM: The game was close at halftime, but in the second half, the Aggies kept taking advantage of ASU turnovers (fumbles, interceptions) to score touchdowns and build a good lead. The final score was 48-20.

Texas A&M Football, 2026 Season, First Game

 For an assortment of reasons, I've mostly ignored my collected blog family since the latter months of last year. Old habits are difficult to abandon, and I've typed a lot of words about Texas A&M / college football in more than 300 posts so far, and I'm resuming that particular activity with the first 2026 season game tomorrow.

The game will be played against Missouri State at Kyle Field, will begin around 6:00 PM CT on ESPN, and A&M is a 40 1/2-point favorite. College Football News is expecting this to be a 9-3 season for the Aggies, with the losses coming against LSU, Oklahoma and Texas U. (some things never change around Texas A&M). 

College Football News predicts the Aggies will cover the point spread with a 48-7 win at home. In football, Texas A&M is almost as predictable as Lardbucket has been as the worst precedent (sic) ever in American history.

Update added 9:34 AM Sunday: The Aggie performance in the first half of the game wasn't immaculate, but Missouri State was still behind 19-0 at halftime. It was fairly obvious that A&M would probably remain in the lead, so we watched an old Inspector Lewis episode on DVD instead of the football game. Sure enough, the Aggies led in total offensive yardage 505-67 and won the game 50-0. Missouri State will probably end up being the easiest home game A&M will play in 2026.

Regime Change Now Necessary

 For reasons that are too complicated to explain or comprehend, one of the greatest nations in the world is being destroyed by a mentally ill fool whose fame and popularity are the result of his performance as host of a TV reality game show years ago. He wasn't elected on the basis of any qualifying degree(s) of intelligence, experience, political skill, or knowledge. He's obsessed with the goal of regime change in Iran and there are probably other nations he's fantasizing about too.

Considering that this waste of pigeon manure hasn't effectively performed any duties of his office (and has completely refused to comply with all standards of the oath of office he's taken twice), we've now reached the point of needing comprehensive regime change in the USA. 

If we can't do this for ourselves, maybe our democratic allies in other nations will take leadership responsibility for making all the regime changes needed urgently in USA.

College Football 2025: (Game Thirteen, Failure)

 The first eleven games of this season, Texas A&M played poorly sometimes and extremely well at other times and managed to win all eleven games. Then came the trip to Texas U in Austin, and things fell apart. Today, the Aggies hosted Miami in their first CFP game on ABC/ESPN.

Tenth-ranked Miami (10-2) was a 3 1/2 point underdog to seventh-ranked A&M (11-1), but College Football News predicted the Aggies would lose 27-24 at home. The final score was 10-3, with the Hurricanes taking advantage of various failures by the Aggies late in the 4th quarter.

So much for all those dreams. 

College Football 2025: Twelfth Game (Texas U)

In the old days, the most important part of the Thanksgiving holiday was the annual rivalry game matching Texas A&M against Texas University. I saw a few of those games when I was still in public school and the Aggies were the home team. After I was attending Texas A&M, I saw the game every year since it was required among Corps members. Traditionally, Texas U has been better than Texas A&M (the Aggie record against Texas U is a sad 37-77).

The annual game was suspended when A&M left the Big 12 for the SEC West, but t.u. had to follow the Aggies to the SEC, starting last season. The next game as SEC rivals will be played in Austin tomorrow at 6:30 PM Central on ABC. The Aggies (11-0) are favored by 2.5 points against Texas U (8-3). The Aggies are unbeaten and the longhorns lost to Ohio State (14-7), Florida (29-21), and Georgia (35-10). 

College Football News has predicted t.u. will win 27-24. That's enough to make me nauseated, but I'll probably watch as long as A&M can gain and maintain a lead on the scoreboard.

Updated 11:04 PM Friday 11/28: it's very unfortunate that an A&M football season as good as this one had to finish with a 27-17 loss to Texas U in Austin. 

College Football 2025: Eleventh Game (Samford)

 It's almost impossible to build up enthusiasm for a game like this: Texas A&M (10-0) will be hosting Samford (1-10) as an over-50 point favorite. College Football News predicts the Aggies will win 52-0. I watched some of the game on my laptop to kill time, and A&M won 48-0. The next game against Texas U in Austin won't be as easy as the one this afternoon.

College Football 2025: Tenth Game (South Carolina)

I lost track of time, and should have had this opinion written by noon yesterday. Texas A&M hosts South Carolina at Kyle Field on ESPN today at 11:00 AM Central. The Aggies are unbeaten and the Gamecocks are 3-6. A&M is favored by 16 1/2 or 19 1/2 points, depending on where you're checking the spread. The Aggies have been playing the Gamecocks since moving to the SEC, and have a 9-2 winning record, with both losses at South Carolina, including a 44-20 beating last season.

It's not easy to predict an upset loss at home for A&M today, and College Football News predicts a 34-14 win for the Aggies. 

Update 12:54 PM Saturday: So far, the game's been a humiliating exhibition of unprepared A&M offense and defense (missed field goals, poor tackling, dropped passes and poor pass protection). South Carolina is ahead 30-3 at halftime, largely due to A&M's embarrassing performance. This kind of stuff is the reason so many of us suffer from BAS. It will be impossible for A&M to win this game without a ton of mistakes by the Gamecocks in the second half. I won't be watching.

Final update 3:18 PM Saturday:  The second half resumed with A&M trailing 30-3 on the scoreboard, but somehow, Mike Elko has a gift for encouraging comebacks. I wasn't watching the game when it happened, but the Aggies put together enough sensational plays to pull ahead 31-30 and the team found a way to hold their one-point lead for the rest of the game, and now has a 10-0 season W/L record.

College Football 2025: Ninth Game (Missouri)

Strange as it seems, Texas A&M's football team has been unbeatable (8-0) this season, It doesn't matter who they play, where they play, or how they play, they haven't lost any game so far this season. 

After an open date last weekend, the Aggies are back on the road to play Missouri on ABC at 2:30 PM this afternoon. A&M's all-time record against Missouri is 10-7, with most of the games played against them as Big 12 and SEC rivals. The Aggies lead 3-2 in SEC games, and are 1-1 in SEC road games. In today's match-up, Mizzou (6-2) is a 6.5 point underdog, with earlier losses against Alabama (27-24) and Vanderbilt (17-10). College Football News has predicted the Aggies will win 26-20 on the road today. I've hated Missouri since the Big 12 days and their simultaneous relocation to the SEC with A&M in 2012. Kicking their butts on their home field would be nice.

Updated 6:21 PM Saturday: It wasn't a game with flawless execution, but Texas A&M made enough exciting plays on offense, defense and special teams to give Missouri a 38-17 beating.  

College Football 2025: Eighth Game (LSU)

The Texas A&M Aggies are having one of their best seasons since joining the SEC West in 2012. The team has played a fairly respectable schedule, and is undefeated although without any blowout wins so far. The season continues tomorrow with a road game against LSU (5-2). The game is scheduled to start on ABC at 6:30 PM Central. Since A&M started playing LSU as a division rival in conference games, the Aggies have won only four, all at home on Kyle Field (2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024). LSU has won every SEC West game as the home team in Baton Rouge, and they are 2 1/2  point favorites tomorrow, despite two losses (Ole Miss 24-19 and Vanderbilt 31-24). College Football News has posted a predicted LSU win (26-23). My concern is that Texas A&M must play much better than they have in most of the games they've won so far to remain unbeaten. That means no penalties or turnovers giving LSU easy touchdowns.

Updated 10:50 PM Saturday 10/25: Kevin Sumlin wasn't the answer. Jimbo Fisher definitely wasn't the answer. Tonight, Texas A&M gave LSU a butt-kicking (49-25) at Baton Rouge, so maybe Mike Elko is the answer. The Aggies had some penalties, a blocked punt for a safety and a few other turnover problems, but for most of the game, they performed well.

College Football 2025: Seventh Game (Arkansas)

Texas A&M is riding high at 6-0 so far this season, and today they'll visit Arkansas (2-4), with the game starting at 2:30 Central on ESPN. The Aggies are 7.5 point favorites on the road. The Hogs have lost to Ole Miss, Memphis, Notre Dame and Tennessee, and won games against Alabama A&M and Arkansas State.

Texas A&M has played annual games against Arkansas as members of the late Southwest Conference, and as members of the SEC since 2012, and the Hogs have been a rough opponent with A&M's record against them a poor 36-42-3. 

College Football News thinks Arkansas could make more mistakes than the Aggies today, and predicts another loss to A&M (34-27). 

Update 6:17 PM Saturday: Texas A&M had a good lead in the second quarter that was wasted and lost due to sloppy defense. A 21-6 lead was cut down to 21-20 at half-time. Success has gone to the heads of Mike Elko's team apparently. I'm probably finished with this shit for tonight.

The ESPN game coverage was rotten due to a weather delay in starting the game at 2:30 PM. I didn't see the second half, but A&M somehow managed to achieve a close 45-42 win.

According to the TV talking heads in post-game discussions, Texas A&M hasn't produced a 7-0 record since back in the 20th century. Since their next game will be at LSU, loyal Aggie fans should probably not hang their dreams on an 8-0 record this season. 

College Football 2025 Sixth Game (Florida)

 The season is zipping right along and somehow, Texas A&M is unbeaten at 5-0 although the team has been pretty bad when it comes to penalties stalling out promising drives and poor execution on third-down plays. Tomorrow, the Aggies welcome Florida (2-3) to Kyle Field. Florida has lost to LSU, Miami and SFU, but did achieve a fairly impressive 29-21 win against the Texas U. Longhorns last week. 

Tomorrow's game will be on ESPN at 6:00 PM, with A&M favored by 7 1/2 points at home. If the Aggies can gain first downs on third down plays and eliminate those damned penalties, College Football News predicts A&M can win 26-17 and keep their success going a while longer.

Updated 11:05 PM Saturday 10/11: The Aggies played better tonight than they've played in any of the previous five games and won 34-17.

College Football 2025: Fifth Game (Mississippi State)

This has been a busy week, and I haven't given college football much thought as a result. This morning, I was reminded that Texas A&M (4-0) will play Mississippi State (4-1) at Kyle Field tonight. Kickoff will be at 6:30 PM on SEC Network.

MSU has been a handful for the Aggies (9-9) in several games, and this might be another one. The Bulldogs have a single quality win so far, against Arizona State, and A&M is favored by about 14 1/2 points. That looks generous to me since the Aggies struggled to beat Auburn last week. Marcel Reed has been winning as the starting QB but isn't producing many dazzling performances yet. Maybe tonight?

College Football News warns this game could be a trap for the Aggies but predicts the home team will win 34-20. I'll welcome that final score any time against anybody.

Updated 11:02 PM Saturday 10/04/25: The game got off to a sluggish start, with A&M being penalized repeatedly. The score was 14-3 in the third quarter when we decided we'd seen enough. We watched a few reruns of the TV western "Lawman" then decided to check the score of the game. By then the Aggies had improved their lead to 31-9 in the 4th quarter, and that was the final score in an important SEC win for A&M. 

College Football 2025: Fourth Game (Auburn)

After their open date last Saturday, Texas A&M gets back to business this afternoon, hosting Auburn (3-1) at Kyle Field. The game kicks off around 2:30 PM and will be televised on ESPN.

The Aggies are 3-0 after pulling out a last-minute win at Notre Dame, and Auburn is 3-1 after losing their fourth game 24-17 at Oklahoma. The Aggies are favored today by 6.5 points, but Auburn is almost always a tough opponent for them, which should be true again today. College Football News predicted the final score will be an A&M win (30-23), assuming Marcel Reed can shine in the passing game, and the Aggie defense can limit the Auburn running backs.

Update @ 6:24 PM Saturday:  Texas A&M was leading on the scoreboard most of the game, but the Aggies kept Auburn close with sloppy penalties that helped Auburn and hurt themselves. In the fourth quarter, Marcel Reed threw an interception that was returned over 70 yards and gave Auburn an easy two-yard TD run. For most of the 4th quarter, it seemed like A&M was going to blow a conference win with their mistakes. Things were satisfactory at the end with A&M clinging to a 16-10 lead and finishing with a 4-0 season record.

Just Filling the Vacant Space

 Daddy Fatty 4Q is getting tough on Real Daddy, Vladimir Putin, by setting shorter deadlines for Russia to lose the war with Ukraine.

Fatty 4Q must think pissing all over Putin is another smart move that will inspire awe among the MAGA monkeys. He's recommending the European NATO nations just shoot down any Russian aircraft entering their airspace.

Maybe Putin should dispatch a trusted team to gather around Fatty 4Q in his Oval Office and remind the TV reality show host who's really in charge of decision-making since 2016.

Karo Syrup Leavitt, the current blonde bimbo Fatty 4Q chose as press secretary is another brain-dead airhead claiming Americans LOVE Daddy Fatty because his hatred of America is so  authentic.

A Week With No Football Game?

Fatty 4-Q will never be anything more than the most embarrassing old man in USA. Read the reports about his prolonged diatribe at the United Nations, then accept the fact that he's not capable of behaving like an intelligent, mature adult. Fatty 4-Q is a fool who makes at least half of American voters seem like fools themselves.

We should be getting sick and tired of this waste of crap.

College Football 2025: Third Game (Notre Dame)

 The Texas A&M Aggies were able to coast past Texas U @ SA in their first game, then defeated Utah State at home in their second game. Things will start getting serious this week, with Texas A&M on the road at Notre Dame (0-1). The Irish lost their first game (27-24 against Miami) but are favored by seven points tonight at 6:30 PM on NBC. Notre Dame's overall record against A&M is 4-2, and they won the most recent game at Kyle Field in last year's opener.

College Football News expects the ND running game will be more than the Aggies can handle, resulting in a 31-17 loss on the road for TAMU. I'll probably watch as long as A&M is ahead or tied, and will probably stick around as long as ND is no more than six points ahead.

Update 10:56 PM Saturday 9/13/25: The Aggies were able to keep the score fairly close, but the fourth quarter, especially in the last few minutes, was insane. Notre Dame scored a late TD to go ahead, then missed the extra point attempt, leaving them ahead 40-34 with only a few minutes remaining in the game. The Aggies drove 74 yards to tie the score at 40-40 with seconds left on the clock, and the PAT conversion gave Elko his first big 2025 win at 41-40.