Texas A&M football is looking to have another massive season in 2026 after making the College Football Playoff for the first time in program history last year. The Aggies won 11 games for the first time since the days of Johnny Football, and they locked in their head coach for the long term amid pursuit by a blue-blood program.
There were things to improve upon, of course, but it was overall a pretty great season for the Aggies. Mike Elko has led this program to heights that no one considered possible within his first two years, but the Aggies are undeniably ahead of schedule at this point.
Priors are difficult to defeat, however, and Aggie fans have seen that play out time and time again with the reaction of the public to their winning ways. Before last season, most were commenting on how tough the Aggies’ schedule would be; as soon as Texas A&M proved themselves against it, all anyone talked about was how easy the schedule was— the consistent theme was that most believed the Aggies were not a good team.
Despite everything they accomplished last year— winning back to back SEC road games, winning in Baton Rouge for the first time since joining the SEC, beating a top-10 Notre Dame team on the road, and more— there is still a healthy helping of skepticism out there about the Aggies for the upcoming year. That’s reflected in the latest ratings from EA Sports College Football— and Mike ELko no doubt would not want it to be any other way.
Texas A&M snubbed in EA College Football ratings, and Mike Elko has to love it
EA College Football put out their top ten teams for the upcoming season, and the Aggies did not make an appearance on the list.
🦆 The Ducks lead the Top 10 by OVR!
— College Football 27 (@EASPORTSCollege) June 23, 2026
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According to this list, the Aggies are, at best, the sixth-best team in the SEC. They play OU, LSU, and Texas— with two of those three games coming on the road— which makes for a difficult schedule indeed.
Of course, this is a completely subjective judgment on the part of the EA Sports College Football staff rather than being based on the actual numbers. Texas A&M, according to an advanced stats profile like SP+, is the 9th-best team in the country in the preseason, and third in the SEC.
Mike Elko would rather have it this way, though. The Aggies are going to be majorly slept on as a team once more, and that’s a positive for this squad without a doubt. Texas A&M will come into 2026 ready to prove everyone wrong once more— and with the transfers and new faces they’ve brought in, they may soar to even greater heights than what we saw in the 2025 season.
The Aggies may not make this list here at the beginning of the season, but by the time that the season comes to a close, they will no doubt be on the list, if not atop it. Doubt the Aggies at your own peril— they are coming for everything in 2026 and beyond.
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