Texas A&M is set up for a big season in 2025. The Aggies will return a lot of experience and talent from previous years, have done a good job addressing their needs in the first portal window, and are looking to build on the win total they achieved last year.
One thing that most have pointed to as a big obstacle to that goal, though, is the schedule that the Aggies face. For all of the talk about how the Aggies had a schedule last year that gave them most of their toughest games at home— the Ags went 2-2 in those games, by the way, winning against Mizzou and LSU and losing against Notre Dame and Texas— they now have to face all of those teams on the road this year.
That's a tough draw, no two ways about it. While the Aggies are lucky to avoid Alabama and Georgia, A&M will have to travel to two teams that finished in the College Football Playoff's top 4, as well as Death Valley and what could be a really underrated team in Missouri.
However, there's an advantage in the home games the Aggies do have that will give them an advantage that no one is discussing.
Texas A&M football is longest road trip for three of their visiting opponents in 2025
It looks like A&M will be the trip that three conference opponents will dread the most in the upcoming year. Not only will they have to deal with the madhouse that is Kyle Field, but the distance that these opponents will be traveling is oppressive.
South Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi State all have to make their longest trips of the year to come to College Station. If the Aggies are going to be competitive at all in the upcoming season, they'll need to avoid upsets at home, and this is one more data point to suggest they'll be able to keep their stellar home record alive under Mike Elko.
The only two teams to defeat the Aggies at home last year were squads that were national title contenders, and that's not a profile that any of the visitors on this year's slate match. It's an absolute must this year that A&M remains undefeated at Kyle Field, and while they've struggled against teams like Mississippi State, things like this suggest that they'll be far more comfortable in that one than the visiting Bulldogs will be.