Will the Texas A&M Aggies be Bowling in 2023? ESPN Prediction

The Texas A&M Aggies are mired in a 4-3 season with the bye week to think about the remaining five games, needing two wins to become bowl-eligible.

The Aggies are mired in a 4-3 season with the bye week to think about the remaining five games, needing two wins to become bowl-eligible. When A&M returns to the field against South Carolina on Oct. 28, it will hope to halt a two-game losing streak.

Still needing two wins in their last five games, the Aggies will have their work cut out for them.

ESPN's Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach put together their list of college football bowl projections, and maybe surprisingly to some, according to the pair, the Aggies will be bowling in December.

Bonagura thinks the Aggies will face the Kansas Jayhawks in the TaxAct Texas Bowl on Dec. 27 at NRG Stadium in Houston. Schabach has A&M later on the bowl schedule on Dec. 29 against the Louisville Cardinals in the TaxSlayer Bowl at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville.

Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher after the Orange Bowl win in Jan. 2021 / USA Today

For an FBS team to be bowl-eligible, six wins are needed along with a winning percentage above .500. There are 41 bowl games that will be fielded by 82 teams, so with the Aggies at 4-3, they'll need two more wins to accomplish that.

A&M is 20-22 all-time in bowl games with its first appearance coming in the Dixie Classic in 1922. The Aggies beat the Centre Colonels 22-14 in Dallas at Fair Park Stadium, the predecessor to the Cotton Bowl. That game is famous for the beginning of the Texas A&M 12th man tradition.

A bowl appearance this season would be the first by A&M since the 2020 season when the Aggies beat the North Carolina Tar Heels 41-27 in the Orange Bowl.