2012 AGGIE FOOTBALL Official Game Notes THREE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS • 689 VICTORIES • 18 CONFERENCE TITLES • 33 BOWL GAMES • 57 FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERICANS
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2012 AGGIE FOOTBALL Official Game Notes THREE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS • 689 VICTORIES • 18 CONFERENCE TITLES • 33 BOWL GAMES • 57 FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERICANS SCHEDULE/RESULTS GAME #11 Saturday, Sept. 8 • 2:35 pm FLORIDA (ESPN) L, 20-17 SAM HOUSTON ST. Kyle Field, College Station (8-2, 6-2 vs. Southland) Saturday, Sept. 15 • 2:30 pm AT @SMU (FSN) W, 48-3 Ford Stadium, Dallas, Texas TEXAS A&M Saturday, Sept. 22 • 6 pm (8-2, 5-2 vs. SEC) S.C. STATE (FSN) W, 70-14 Kyle Field, College Station KICKOFF/DATE: .. 2:30 p.m. (CT), Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 Saturday, Sept. 29 • 11:21 am SITE ..................... Kyle FielD, COllege StAtiOn, texAS (CAp. 82,423) ARKANSAS (SEC N) w, 58-10 TELEVISION ........ FOx Sport net Pay-peR-view Kyle Field, College Station Ralph Strangis, play-by-play Saturday, Oct. 6 • 6:02 pm Shea Walker, commentary @OLE MISS (ESPNU) W, 30-27 Will Johnson, sideline reporter Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, Miss. RADIO ................. texAS A&M SpORtS netwORK Saturday, Oct. 13 • 8:17 pm Dave South, play-by-play LA. TECH (ESPNU) W, 59-57 Dave Elmendorf, commentary Independence Stadium, Shreveport, La. (Texas A&M call on Sirius channel 93 / XM 203) Saturday, Oct. 20 • 11 am RANKINGS .......... Sam HOUSTON ST. ................... Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) (ESPN) L, 24-19 LSU TEXAS A&M .................. (No. 8 - BCS / No. 9 - Ap / No. 10 - USA TODAY) Kyle Field, College Station SERIES HISTORY .. Texas A&M leads 10-0-1 Saturday, Oct. 27 • 6:02 pm @AUBURN (ESPNU) W, 63-21 LIVE AUDIO ........ aggieathletics.com, radioaggieland.com Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, Ala. LIVE STATS .......... aggieathletics.com Saturday, Nov. 3 • 11 am @MISS. ST. (ESPN) w, 38-13 SUDDENLY IN THE TOP 10, AggIES RETURN TO KYLE Davis Wade Stadium, Starkville, Miss. Fresh off three straight road wins against SeC opponents, the 8-2 texas A&M football team Saturday, Nov. 10 • 2:30 pm returns home to finish off the regular season with a pair of games at Kyle Field. the Aggies, @ALABAMA (CBS) W, 29-24 Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Ala. ranked no. 8 in the Bowl Championship Series standings, host Football Championship Sub- division (FCS) opponent Sam Houston State at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, and then close out the Saturday, Nov. 17 • 2:30 pm regular season against Missouri on nov. 24. SAM HOUSTON ST. (PPV) Kyle Field, College Station • The 8-2 Bearkats, from nearby Huntsville, Texas, clinched a share of their second consecutive Southland Conference championship with a 52-17 win over Northwestern State last Saturday. The Saturday, Nov. 24 • 6 pm MISSOURI (ESPN or ESPN2) Bearkats, who won their fifth overall title, finished 6-1 to tie Central Arkansas atop the league Kyle Field, College Station standings, but the Bears earned the league’s automatic berth into the NCAA Division I Playoffs thanks to its 24-20 victory against Sam Houston in September. The Bearkats must wait until Selec- FB MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACTS tion Sunday on Nov. 24 to find out if it gets an at-large bid. ALAN CANNON, Associate A.D./Media Relations • The Aggies hold a 10-0-0 advantage in the all-time series between the two schools. The first nine office ... (979) 862-5447 cell ...... (979) 777-4200 meetings were contested between 1919 and 1941. The two schools have only one recent meeting email ....................... [email protected] BRAD MARQUARDT, Associate Director with the Aggies taking a 59-6 win over the Bearkats in 1997 at Kyle Field. office ... (979) 862-5448 cell ...... (979) 229-8651 • The Bearkats will be the Aggies’ second FCS opponent in 2012. A&M beat South Carolina State email .................. [email protected] 70-14 in the third game of the season. The Aggies will be the Bearkats’ second FBS opponent of MEREDITH COLLIER, Assistant Director office ... (979) 862-5443 cell ...... (979) 777-6112 2012. Sam Houston State led Baylor 20-10 at halftime, but the Bears rallied for a 48-23 victory. email ........................ [email protected] ADAM QUISENBERRY, Assistant Director TEXAS A&M-SHSU CONNECTIONS office ... (979) 862-5453 cell ...... (713) 582-5135 email ................ [email protected] • Aggie OL coach B.J. Anderson coached the Bearkat offensive line from 2005-08 before joining JacKIE THORNTON, Office Assistant Kevin Sumlin’s staff at Houston in 2009. office ... (979) 845-5725 • Former A&M players Will Randolph, Andrew Weaver and K.J. Williams are on SHSU’s 2012 roster. email [email protected] KEVIN SUMLIN • First season at Texas A&M. • Fifth season as a college head coach. • Earned his degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Purdue University in 1988. • Standout linebacker for the Boilermakers from 1983-86. • Was hired at Texas A&M on Dec. 10, 2011 after four highly success- ful seasons as head coach at the University of Houston. • Compiled at 35-17 record at UH, and led the Cougars to three bowl games in his four seasons. • Was a finalist for National Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2011. • Served as an assistant coach at Texas A&M from 2001-02. Was hired hired as assistant head coach and wide receivers coach, and he added offensive coordinator to his responsibilities early in the 2002 KYLE FIELD season after the offense struggled early in the season. With Sumlin calling the plays, the Aggie offense flourished, averaging 33.0 points • Home of the Aggies since 1905. and 419 yards per game for the remainder of the season after post- ing just 16.0 points and 286 yards per game previously. A highlight • Capacity of Kyle Field is 82,589. of the season including a 30-26 win over top-ranked Oklahoma with • Stadium record crowd is 90,079, set vs. Nebraska in 2010 (9-6 win the Aggies gaining 404 total yards to key the victory. by the Aggies) ... school record 12 straight sellouts • Other assistant coaching stops for Sumlin include: Oklahoma • Kyle Field is named for former A&M Dean of Agriculture Edwin (2003-07), Purdue (1998-2000), Minnesota (1993-97) and Wyoming Jackson Kyle, who donated a 400 x 400-foot area of the southern (1991-92). He got his coaching start as a graduate assistant at Wash- edge of campus that had been assigned to him for horticultural ington State from 1989-90. experiments. It became the home of the Aggies. • As an assistant coach, Sumlin served under Bob Stoops at Oklaho- • Populous, one of the world’s premier sports facility design firms, ma, R.C. Slocum at Texas A&M, Joe Tiller at Purdue and Wyoming, has been hired to lead the design study phase for the upcoming Jim Wacker at Minnesota and Mike Price at Washington State. renovation and redevelopment of Kyle Field. • Sumlin has coached in 11 bowl games, including all four Bowl • With 30,000 Texas A&M students at football games, Kyle Field Championship Series games (2002 Rose Bowl, 2004 Sugar Bowl, hosts the largest student crowd in the nation. 2005 Orange Bowl, 2007 and 2008 Fiesta Bowls). Also played in Peach Bowl (now Chick-Fil-A Bowl). KYLE FIELD RECORD cROWDS • Sumlin is a native of Indianapolis, Ind., and attended high school at 1. 90,079 vs. No. 8 Nebraska (2010) Won, 9-6 Brebeuf Jesuit Prep. Was born Aug. 3, 1964 in Brewton, Ala. 2. 88,645 vs. No. 25 Texas (2011) Lost, 27-25 3. 88,253 vs. No. 12 Texas (2007) Won, 38-30 4. 87,555 vs. No. 5 Texas (2001) Lost, 21-7 5. 87,429 vs. No. 6 LSU (2012) Lost, 24-19 6. 87,361 vs. Baylor (2011) Won, 55-26 7. 87,358 vs. No. 6 Oklahoma State (2011) Lost, 30-29 8. 87,206 vs. Notre Dame (2001) Won, 24-3 9. 87,188 vs. No. 1 Oklahoma (2000) Lost, 35-31 10. 87,114 vs. No. 23 Florida (2012) Lost, 20-17 KYLE FIELD RECORD SEASON AVERAGES 1. 87,183 2011 610, 283/7 games 2. 86,940 2012 347, 760/4 games 3. 82,711 2001 496, 268/6 games 4. 82,477 2010 577, 338/7 games 5. 82,207 2007 575, 450/7 games 6. 82,193 2008 575, 351/7 games 7. 80,198 2002 561, 389/7 games 8. 79,732 2005 478, 389/6 games 9. 77,578 2000 465, 471/6 games 10. 76,800 2009 537, 602/7 games 2 2012 AGGIE FOOTBALL • OFFICIAL GAME Notes JOHNNY MANZIEL 6-1 • 200 • Redshirt Freshman QUARTERbacK Kerrville, Texas (Tivy HS) In Manziel’s first season of action ... • Two-time Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week • Three-time SEC Offensive Player of the Week • Seven-time SEC Freshman of the Week • Davey O’Brien National QB Award semifinalist • Has broken the SEC record for total offense twice (557 vs. Arkansas on Sept. 29 and 576 vs. Louisiana Tech on Oct. 13). • Is on pace to break SEC total offense record of 4,327 yards set by Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton of Auburn in 2010. • First player in NCAA FBS history to pass for 300 yards and rush for 100 yards in the same game three times in his career. Manziel did it in the first nine games of this season. • Second freshman in NCAA FBS history to rush for 1,000 yards and pass for 2,000 yards in a season, which was first accomplished by Brad Smith of Missouri in 2002. • Needs 220 passing yards to reach 3,000 yards to become the fifth NCAA FBS player and first freshman to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in a season.