Texas A&M football 2025 schedule: Everything we know so far about next year's slate

Texas A&M football is staring down the barrel of a very similar schedule next year—unless one important thing changes.
Sep 2, 2023; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies wide receiver Moose Muhammad III (7) runs the ball during the fourth quarter against New Mexico Lobos at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Maria Lysaker-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 2, 2023; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies wide receiver Moose Muhammad III (7) runs the ball during the fourth quarter against New Mexico Lobos at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Maria Lysaker-USA TODAY Sports / Maria Lysaker-USA TODAY Sports
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Texas A&M football 2025 schedule will look very similar to this year's, unless one big change goes through

Officially, we have the entire slate of opponents—if not the dates—for the Texas A&M football 2025 schedule. You can find them at this link. If you look at the conference opponents for the Aggies there and think "well, that looks very similar to this year," you would be right—as a matter of fact, it is identical to this year's.

When the SEC announced conference opponents for 2025, they simply reissued the same opponents as this year and swapped home and away. This means, given that the Aggies will play Notre Dame next year again as well, that the only new opponents for Texas A&M in 2025 as things currently stand will be UTSA, Utah State, and Tarleton State.

However, this is not something that is completely set in stone yet. We've seen schedules completely reshuffled in much shorter timeframes than this—something that I feel is very likely to happen in this instance. Here is why.

As I wrote about a couple of months ago, a news story broke during SEC Media Days from Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports. This story, among other things, detailed that the nine-game SEC schedule was set to once more be proposed following the season. If approved, that change could be implemented as soon as 2025.

This is what I think, in all likelihood, will happen. There are too many teams in this conference with multiple rivalries that need to be preserved to do anything different. Under the current model, you either get a very imbalanced schedule year over year or you lose certain rivalries—like Tennessee Alabama, or Georgia-Auburn.

The fix for this is to move to a nine-game schedule. Though it would be no doubt more of a grind, especially considering that many SEC teams have nonconference rivals that are power 4 squads, I think this is simply the move that makes the most sense going forward.

If that were to happen, I expect the only teams that would be retained on Texas A&M football's schedule to be Texas, Mississippi State, and Arkansas. Everything else would be up for grabs.

That's all a hypothesis right now, though. Officially, we are just awaiting word from the conference on when each game will be played in 2025. If I'm right, though, there's a solid chance that announcement is never made.

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