Texas A&M given yet more top-10 recognition by another advanced stat profile

Texas A&M football, according to most objective measures, is a team that is pretty well underrated by the AP Poll, a ranking that put the Aggies down at 19th. While there are reasons for pollsters to have a level of skepticism, there's not much justification for having the Aggies on the fringes of the rankings when their objective quality is this much higher.

While we've seen that time and time again from the ratings that have continued to come out, this has been further borne out once more by the release of the official Kelley Ford KFordRatings top 30 for this season. By this metric, the Aggies are a top-10 team headed into the 2025 season.

While this is the good news, the bad news is still readily apparent: the Aggies still have an extremely tough schedule headed into the year. They play three teams ranked ahead of them, all on the road, and will host Florida, who is just behind them.

Texas A&M given top-10 ranking in preseason Kelley Ford ratings

If nothing else, this speaks to the ceiling that the Aggies have. Ford has already written about how the Aggies need to just win the games they're supposed to in order to be in the conversation for the playoff, but this also shows that the Ags could be on the verge of doing even more than that.

The Aggies will have a tough task on their hands when they venture to South Bend and Baton Rouge this year, but with LSU in particular only less than one adjusted point ahead of the Ags, it could be a neck-and-neck contest in the Bayou.

For Notre Dame's part, if the quarterback situation isn't figured out for Freeman's squad by their second game— really not all that outlandish of a proposition— then A&M could steal one early against a very senior and elite defense.

In any case, this goes to show just how good this Aggie team could be this year. They've had an expectation problem in years past, but in the Elko Era, that could be behind them.