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2019 TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL GAME 1 | TEXAS STATE | THURSDAY, AUG. 29, 2019 GAME TIME: 7:30 p.m. CT | SITE: KYLE FIELD | TV: SEC NETWORK TWITTER: @AGGIEFOOTBALL /// INSTAGRAM: @AGGIEFOOTBALL /// FACEBOOK: /AGGIEFOOTBALL /// #GIGEM 2019 SCHEDULE TEXAS STATE TEXAS A&M BOBCATS AGGIES AUG TEXAS STATE 29 7:30 p.m. | SEC Network Kyle Field, College Station, Texas 2018 TEAM RECORD: 3-9 2018 TEAM RECORD: 9-4 2018 CONFERENCE RECORD: 1-7 (Sun Belt) 2018 CONFERENCE RECORD: 5-3 (SEC) SEP at CLEMSON 7 2:30 p.m. | ABC RANKING: AP: NR / Coaches: NR RANKING: AP: 12 / Coaches: 11 Memorial Stadium, Clemson, S.C. LAST GAME: Nov. 24 LAST GAME: Dec. 31, Taxslayer Gator Bowl Texas A&M 52, NC State 13 SEP LAMAR Arkansas State 33, Texas State 7 14 6:00 p.m. | ESPN2 or ESPNU HEAD COACH: Jake Spavital (Missouri St. ‘08) HEAD COACH: Jimbo Fisher (Salem Univ. ‘90) Kyle Field, College Station, Texas Overall Record ........................0-0 (1st Season Overall Record .................. 92-27 (10th Season AUBURN at Texas State ........................0-0 (1st Season) at Texas A&M ........................9-4 (2nd Season) SEP vs. Texas A&M ............................................ 0-0 vs. Texas State ............................................ 1-0 21 TBD | TBD Kyle Field, College Station, Texas SEP vs. ARKANSAS WHAT TO WATCH FOR #TXSTvsTAMU: QUICK HITS TBD | TBD 28 • Texas A&M opens the 125th Season in • Texas A&M faces one of the toughest AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas program history, a milestone that will be schedules in the nation in 2019, as it is honored and celebrated throughout the one of two schools in the nation with four OCT ALABAMA season. preseason top-10 teams on its schedule. TBD | TBD 12 • The Aggies are 28-8-1 in season openers at • The Aggies return starting quarterback Kyle Field, College Station, Texas home in the modern era of college football, Kellen Mond for his junior season ... Mond going 5-2 in their first game of the year finished fourth in total offense, fifth in OCT at OLE MISS since joining the SEC in 2012. passing touchdowns and sixth in passing 19 TBD | TBD yardage in the SEC last season. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, Miss. • Coach Fisher owns an 8-1 record in season openers, including a perfect 5-0 mark in • Senior punter Braden Mann aims to season openers played at home. become the fourth person ever to repeat MISSISSIPPI STATE as a Ray Guy Award winner ... He became OCT • The 2019 season opener marks the second TBD | TBD the first Aggie to earn the award after a 26 time that head coach Jimbo Fisher has Kyle Field, College Station, Texas record-setting 2018 season that saw him opened a season against Texas State ... In set three NCAA punting records. UTSA 2015, the Fisher-led Florida State squad NOV posted a 59-16 victory behind 636 yards of • Junior defensive lineman Justin Madubuike 2 TBD | TBD offense. is the team’s returning leading tackler ... Kyle Field, College Station, Texas He has not missed a game in his first two • On Aug. 20, junior linebacker Braden White seasons and made 12 starts on defense in was named the 12th Man, succeeding SOUTH CAROLINA 2018. NOV Cullen Gillaspia, who held the prestigious TBD | TBD 16 honor for the last three seasons. • Sophomore Jashaun Corbin was third Kyle Field, College Station, Texas on the team in total offense last season, • Texas A&M finished the 2019 season with seeing the field mainly as a kickoff return an 5-3 record in the rugged SEC West, at GEORGIA sepcialst while backing up one of the top NOV good for second in the division ... It was TBD | TBD running backs in A&M history, Trayveon 23 the Aggies’ highest conference finish since Sanford Stadium, Athens, Ga. Willaims. joining the elite league in 2012. • The Aggies lost five starters on offense • The Maroon & White rattled off four wins to at LSU and seven defensive starters from the NOV conclude last ... The four-game win streak TBD | TBD 2018 season ... Eleven of the 12 players are 30 is the longest current win streak in the Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, La. currently on NFL rosters. Southeastern Conference. 2019 TEXAS A&M GAME NOTES 2019 SCHEDULE BREAKDOWN TEXAS STATE Series record: Texas A&M leads 2-0 Thursday, Aug. 29 | 7:30 p.m. Kyle Field, College Station, Texas TV: SEC Network at Clemson Series record: Texas A&M leads 3-2 Saturday, Sept. 7 | 2:30 p.m. SETTING THE SCENE: Memorial Stadium, Clemson, S.C. TV: ABC TEXAS STATE at TEXAS A&M KICKOFF: 7:30 p.m. CT Series record: Texas A&M leads 1-0 LAMAR SITE: Kyle Field, College Station, Texas Saturday, Sept. 14 | 6:00 p.m. (capacity: 102,733) Kyle Field, College Station, Texas TV: ESPN2/ESPNU RANKINGS: Texas State: NR (AP) | NR (Coaches) AUBURN Series record: Texas A&M leads 5-4 Texas A&M: No. 12 (AP) | No. 11 (Coaches) Saturday, Sept. 21 | TBA TELEVISION: Kyle Field, College Station, Texas SEC Network (National) TV: TBA Tom Hart, play-by-play Jordan Rodgers, analyst vs. Arkansas Series record: Arkansas leads 31-41-3 Cole Cubelic, sideline Saturday, Sept. 28 | TBA RADIO: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas Texas A&M Radio Network (Regional) TV: TBA The Texas A&M Radio Network provides coverage via nearly 60 stations across Series record: Alabama leads 9-2 the state of Texas. For a complete list of ALABAMA affiliates, please go to 12thMan.com. Saturday, Oct. 12 | TBA Kyle Field, College Station, Texas Andrew Monaco, play-by-play Dave Elmendorf, analyst TV: TBA Will Johnson, sideline Series record: Texas A&M leads 8-3 Texas A&M Spanish Network (Regional) at Ole Miss Texas A&M’s Spanish broadcast can be heard Saturday, Oct. 19 | TBA on radio stations in Dallas, San Antonio, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, Miss. Houston, El Paso, Brownsville and McAllen, TV: TBA Texas. Locally, the TAMU Spanish Network can be heard on 1550 AM. MISSISSIPPI STATE Series record: Mississippi State leads 7-5 Pedro Vela Almaguer, play-by-play Saturday, Oct. 26 | TBA Noel Orellana, analyst Kyle Field, College Station, Texas SERIES vs. TEXAS STATE: TV: TBA Texas A&M leads 2-0 10/3/1919 College Station W, 28-0 UTSA Series record: Texas A&M leads 1-0 9/22/2005 College Station W, 44-31 Saturday, Nov. 2 | TBA Kyle Field, College Station, Texas TV: TBA SOUTH CAROLINA Series record: Texas A&M leads 5-0 Saturday, Nov. 16 | TBA Kyle Field, College Station, Texas TV: TBA at Georgia Series record: Texas A&M leads 3-2 Saturday, Nov. 23 | TBA Sanford Stadium, Athens, Ga. TV: TBA at LSU Series record: LSU leads 33-21-3 Saturday, Nov. 30 | TBA Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, La. TV: TBA 2 AGGIE FOOTBALL | HOME OF THE 12TH MAN 2019 TEXAS A&M GAME NOTES SERIES INFO THE 12TH MAN • Thursday’s clash is the third meeting between the two schools, as • Junior LB Braden White was named the 12th Man by head coach Texas A&M owns a 2-0 all-time record against the Bobcats. Jimbo Fisher on August 20. • The two teams faced off for the first time almost 100 years ago on • The Florence, Alabama, native appeared in 18 games over the last Oct. 3, 1919, as the Aggies posted a 28-0 win in College Station. two years, playing primarily on special teams ... He earned the Top Conditioned Athlete Award following the 2018 season and was • The most recent matchup was on Sept. 22, 2005 as Reggie McNeal named Defensive Scout MVP at the annual team banquet following and Courtney Lewis posted a pair of touchdowns each to lead the his redshirt season in 2016. Aggies to a 44-31 triumph in a game moved up to Thursday due to Hurricane Rita. • White recently graduated in August, earning his degree from the College of Business. • Texas A&M’s famous 12th Man tradition dates back to 1922 when TEXAS A&M - TEXAS STATE CONNECTIONS student E. King Gill came out of the stands in the Dixie Classic in Dallas at the request of legendary head coach Dana X. Bible • Texas A&M offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Darrell because of injuries to his football team ... Gill never entered Dickey spent the 2011 season in San Marcos as the co-offensive the game but “stood ready” in the Aggies’ 22-14 win over the coordinator and running backs coach under former Texas A&M head powerhouse Centre College Praying Colonels. coach Dennis Franchione. • In honor of the tradition, the Texas A&M student body “stands ready” • Texas State head coach Jake Spavital spent three seasons in College to show their support of their team on the field. Station as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach (2013) and offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach (2014-15). • The 12th Man Kickoff Team tradition was started in 1982 by then- head coach Jackie Sherrill after being inspired by watching students • Texas State co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach build the famous Aggie Bonfire. “I knew that I could find, out of Archie McDaniel played linebacker for the Aggies from 2003-05 40-some-odd thousand students, 11 guys that would cover kickoffs, before spending the 2008 season as a graduate assistant at A&M. but have no regard for their body and be tough as nails,” Sherrill McDaniel was a three-year starter and team captain as a senior for said. (Source: MyAggieNation.com) Beginning in 1991, a single 12th the Aggies, amassing 213 tackles, five sacks and two interceptions.