Tennessee's History Against Texas A&M

A look back at the history between the Tennessee Volunteers and Texas A&M Aggies.

The Tennessee Volunteers will host Texas A&M after their bye week for a 3:30 p.m. E.T. kickoff at Neyland Stadium. Before the matchup, here is a look at the history between the two teams leading up to October 14th.

Next Saturday's game will be the fifth time the Aggies and Vols have faced each other in college football history. The first matchup dates back to 1957 in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. Legendary head coach Paul Bear Bryant was coaching Texas A&M then, and Tennessee went on to beat them 3-0. The second matchup was on New Year's Day in 2005, when the two teams faced off in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The Volunteers would once again get the better of Texas A&M, defeating them 38-7 for the program's 25th bowl victory.

Years later, the Aggies joined the SEC with Missouri in the 2012 offseason. Since that climatic conference realignment, Tennessee played Texas A&M two more times, and the first matchup came a whole decade after the 2005 Cotton Bowl in 2016. The two teams played in College Station, and the Aggies came out on top in a back-and-forth game that went to double overtime, with the final score being 45-38. The Vols' quarterback at the time was Josh Dobbs, who would throw for nearly 400 yards paired with an Alvin Kamara 130-yard rushing effort.

The fourth game came to Neyland Stadium for the first time, and it happened during the COVID-19 year. It was a rescheduled game that was played on December 19th due to Texas A&M having several COVID-19 cases within their program. After that game was all said and done, the Aggies came out on top 34-13. The loss for the Volunteers pushed their record to 3-7 for the 2020 season. 

Tennessee Volunteers RB Alvin Kamara. (Photo by Jerome Miron of USA Today Sports)

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