Texas A&M 2025 win total: Greg McElroy gives outlook on Aggies' schedule

Greg McElroy believes Texas A&M could surprise some people in 2025. He took an in-depth look at the Aggies on the latest episode of his Always College Football with Greg McElroy show.

After an eight-win season in 2024, Las Vegas oddsmakers have set Texas A&M’s over-under win total at 8.5. Can it reach the over and deliver fans a special season in 2025? McElroy took it game by game in his evaluation, believing there’s reason for optimism.

“We’ll go next to Texas A&M and head coach Mike Elko. Their over-under win total is at 8.5. They had eight wins last year,” McElroy prefaced. “If you look at their schedule, there’s a lot of things to like. There’s four games you would think are winnable immediately. Before we even get started, I would expect A&M to win at home against UTSA, Utah State, Samford and Mississippi State. With all due respect to Mississippi State, I don’t know if the progress will be enough at this point to go on the road and win a game in the SEC.

“Look at the other games that they have on their schedule. At Notre Dame, incredibly difficult game on Sept. 13. Auburn at home, Florida at home. Two games that I think you’ve gotta win. You’ve got to hold serve at home before you go to Arkansas, LSU and Missouri. Those three games are between Oct. 18 and Nov. 8. Three difficult road trips in a four-week span will be challenging for the Texas A&M Aggies.

“They’ll have South Carolina at home. I would imagine they’ll have that one circled after the disappointment in Columbia last year, before finishing up the regular season by traveling to Texas in what should be a great rivalry game.

Evidently, McElroy sees a ton of opportunity on Texas A&M’s schedule: “So you look at this schedule, I think there’s a bunch of games that are very winnable,” he added. “Auburn at home, Florida at home. Those games, you have to take care of business. I think it’s going to be hard to go up to Notre Dame and get a win. I think you can get Arkansas on the road as well. So, I think if you look at those, some of those home games, a couple of gettable road games. A&M should be sitting pretty this year.

“If they can continue to be as good on defense as I anticipate them being and make some progress offensively while staying healthy, I think A&M is one of those teams that not enough people are talking about going into this upcoming season. I think A&M Aggies have a chance to really threaten. I really believe this, really threaten in the SEC this year if they can stay healthy across the board.”

All told, nine or 10 wins would be huge for Texas A&M and put them squarely in the mix for the College Football Playoff conversation. We’ll see if they can hit their over in 2025, but the Aggies are certainly a team to watch this season, and Greg McElroy believes that to be true.