The SEC has set the window for Tennessee’s trip to Kyle Field, with the Nov. 14 matchup against Texas A&M slated for sometime between 2 and 3:15 p.m. and set to air on either ESPN or SEC Network. The league will lock in the exact kickoff time and television assignment after the Nov. 7 games are in the books.
That game will fall under Texas A&M’s “Operation Blackout,” meaning the Aggies will take the field in special black jerseys. It will be the third straight season the program has used that look since Elko was hired, following blackouts against Mississippi State in 2025 and LSU in 2024.
The meeting in College Station will be only the sixth all-time between Tennessee and Texas A&M. The last time the Volunteers played at Kyle Field, College GameDay was there for the Oct. 8, 2016 showdown, and the Aggies pulled out a 45-38 double-overtime win in a top-10 clash.
The teams have not met since Oct. 14, 2023, when Texas A&M visited Knoxville and Tennessee won 20-13. That loss gave the Aggies their eighth straight road defeat and ultimately helped bring the Jimbo Fisher era to a close. Tennessee owns the series edge at 3-2, with wins in the 1957 Gator Bowl, the 2005 Cotton Bowl and that 2023 game at Neyland Stadium.
Before that Nov. 14 date arrives, both teams have work to do this week. Texas A&M, now 4-4 and 1-4 in SEC play, heads to Columbia, S.C., to face No.
23 South Carolina at 2 p.m. on ESPN. Tennessee, sitting at 6-2 and 3-2 in the league, will host rival No.
8 Kentucky at 5:15 p.m. CT on ESPN.
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