Texas A&M's Most Important SEC Game This Season? Answer Might Surprise You

The Texas A&M Aggies are in a year where expectations are high despite a 5-7 record last season.

We all know Texas will be the Texas A&M Aggies' most important Southeastern Conference game when the Longhorns join the league in 2024, but what about this upcoming season?

On3 went up and down the conference and, while Arkansas' most important SEC game in 2023 is in the Southwest Classic against Texas A&M, the Aggies' biggest league matchup this upcoming season is against the Auburn Tigers.

"Jimbo Fisher needs Ws, plural — especially in SEC play," On3 wrote. "The Aggies are just 6-10 in conference play the last two seasons, so they would be well-served to get off to a fast start vs. league opponents in 2023. Auburn has a first-year head coach, a brand-new staff and a new-look roster that will still be coalescing the first month of the season, so Fisher & Co., cannot lose — at home no-less — to the Tigers before a three-game stretch of Arkansas (in Arlington), Alabama and at Tennessee."

The Aggies are 5-6 against the Tigers since joining the SEC in 2012, losing five of the last seven games outright.

Last year, Auburn ran for 270 yards on Texas A&M in a 13-10 slugfest. The two will meet at Kyle Field Sept. 23 after three consecutive non-conference matchups against New Mexico, Miami and Louisiana-Monroe.

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