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 complete.
The game will be part of Texas A&M’s “Operation Blackout,” with the Aggies wearing special black jerseys. It will be the third straight season the program has used the blackout theme since Elko was hired, following blackouts against Mississippi State in 2025 and LSU in 2024.
This will be only the sixth meeting all time between Tennessee and Texas A&M, and the last time the Vols were in College Station, it was a major scene. College GameDay was there on Oct. 8, 2016, when the top-10 showdown ended with Texas A&M pulling out a 45-38 win in double overtime.
The teams haven’t played since Oct. 14, 2023, when Tennessee beat the Aggies 20-13 in Knoxville and handed A&M its eighth straight road loss. That result eventually led to the end of the Jimbo Fisher era. Tennessee leads the series 3-2, with wins in the 1957 Gator Bowl, the 2005 Cotton Bowl and that 2023 game at Neyland Stadium.
Texas A&M, which is 4-4 and 1-4 in the SEC, returns to action this week with a trip 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 league play, will come off the A&M game on ESPN by hosting rival No. 8 Kentucky in Knoxville at 5:15 p.m.
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