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The Texas A&M Aggies football program is a college football team that represents Texas A&M University in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The team has had 27 head coaches since it started playing organized football in 1894. Texas A&M University was a charter member of the Southwest Conference, joining in 1915, while then known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas or Texas A.M.C. Texas A&M became a charter member of the Big 12 in 1996 when the Southwest Conference disbanded.[1] The Aggies subsequently left the Big 12 following the 2011 season and joined as the 13th member of the SEC effective for the 2012 season.[2] The team nickname is the Aggies, a reference to the agricultural roots of the university.[3] The Aggies have played in 1,244 games during their 122 completed  seasons. In those seasons, twelve coaches have led Texas A&M to postseason bowl games: Dana X. Bible, Homer H. Norton, Robert Harry Stiteler, Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings, Emory Bellard, Tom Wilson, Jackie Sherrill, R. C. Slocum, Dennis Franchione, Mike Sherman, and Kevin Sumlin. Seven coaches have won conference championships with the Aggies: Bible, Norton, Bryant, Stallings, Bellard, Sherrill and Slocum. Bible and Norton are the only coaches to have won a national championship at Texas A&M.

Slocum is the all-time leader in games coached (172), total wins (123) and is tied with Norton for years coached (14). D. V. Graves has the highest winning percentage of any Aggies coach with a 6–1 record (.857) in his only year. Of coaches who served more than one season, Walter E. Bachman leads with a .813 winning percentage. Henry Foldberg is, in terms of winning percentage, the worst coach the Aggies have had (.217). Of the 27 Aggie coaches, six have been inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame: Bible, Madison Bell, Norton, Bryant, Stallings and Slocum. Slocum and Sumlin are the only coaches to have received any coach of the year accolades, with Slocum winning the Southwest Conference Coach of the Year award three years in a row, and Sumlin winning SEC Coach of the Year in 2012.

Key

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Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason[A 1]
No. Order of coaches[A 2] GC Games coached CW Conference wins PW Postseason wins
DC Division championships OW Overall wins CL Conference losses PL Postseason losses
CC Conference championships OL Overall losses CT Conference ties PT Postseason ties
NC National championships OT Overall ties[A 3] C% Conference winning percentage
† Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O% Overall winning percentage[A 4]

Coaches

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List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 5]
No. Name Year(s) Season(s) GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT CCs

[A 6]

NCs

1 F. Dudley Perkins 1894 1 2 1 1 0 .500 — — — — — — — — — —
2 Andrew M. Soule & Horace W. South 1896 1 3 2 0 1 .833 — — — — — — — — — —
3 C. W. Taylor 1897 1 3 1 2 0 .333 — — — — — — — — — —
4 H. W. Williams 1898 1 6 4 2 0 .667 — — — — — — — — — —
5 W. A. Murray 1899–1901 3 16 7 8 1 .469 — — — — — — — — — —
6 J. E. Platt 1902–1904 3 26 18 5 3 .750 — — — — — — — — — —
7 Walter E. Bachman 1905–1906 2 16 13 3 0 .813 — — — — — — — — — —
8 L. L. Larson 1907 1 8 6 1 1 .813 — — — — — — — — — —
9 Ned Merriam 1908 1 10 4 5 1 .375 — — — — — — — — — —
10 Charley Moran 1909–1914 6 48 37 8 3 .800 — — — — — — — — — —
11 Edwin Harlan 1915–1916 2 18 13 5 0 .722 3 2 0 .600 — — — — — —
12 Dana X. Bible[7]† 1917, 1919–1928 1, 10 100 72 19 9 .765 26 15 7 .615 1 0 0 5 2 — 1919, 1927 —
13 D. V. Graves 1918 1 7 6 1 0 .857 1 1 0 .500 — — — — — —
14 Madison A. Bell[8]† 1929–1933 5 48 24 21 3 .531 8 14 3 .380 — — — — — —
15 Homer H. Norton[9]† 1934–1947 14 144 82 53 9 .601 40 35 7 .530 2 2 0 3 1 – 1939 —
16 Harry Stiteler 1948–1950 3 31 8 21 2 .290 3 13 2 .222 1 0 0 — — —
17 Raymond George 1951–1953 3 30 12 14 4 .467 3 12 3 .250 — — — — — —
18 Paul "Bear" Bryant[10]† 1954–1957 4 41 25 14 2 .634 14 9 1 .604 0 1 0 1 — —
19 James A. Myers 1958–1961 4 40 12 24 4 .350 5 18 3 .250 — — — — — —
20 Henry Foldberg 1962–1964 3 30 6 23 1 .217 5 15 1 .262 — — — — — —
21 Gene Stallings[11]† 1965–1971 7 73 27 45 1 .377 19 30 0 .388 1 0 0 1 — —
22 Emory Bellard[A 7] 1972–1978 7 75 48 27 0 .640 29 18 0 .617 1 2 0 1 — —
23 Tom Wilson[A 7] 1978–1981 4 40 21 19 0 .525 14 15 0 .483 2 0 0 — — —
24 Jackie Sherrill 1982–1988 7 81 52 28 1 .648 36 17 1 .676 2 1 0 3 — —
25 R. C. Slocum[13]† 1989–2002 14 172 123 47 2 .721 78 28 2 .731 3 8 0 4 — Southwest Conference Coach of the Year (1991, 1992, 1993)[14][15]
26 Dennis Franchione 2003–2007 5 60 32 28 — .533 19 21 — .475 0 2 — — — —
Int Gary Darnell 2007 1 1 0 1 — .000 0 0 — .000 0 1 — — — —
27 Mike Sherman 2008–2011 4 50 25 25 — .500 15 18 — .455 0 1 — — — —
Int Tim DeRuyter 2011 1 1 1 0 — 1.000 0 0 — .000 1 0 — — — —
28 Kevin Sumlin 2012–2017 6 65 44 21 — .677 21 19 — .525 3 2 — — — SEC Coach of the Year (2012)
Int Jeff Banks 2017 1 1 0 1 — .000 0 0 — .000 0 0 — — — —
29 Jimbo Fisher 2018–2023 6 70 45 25 — .643 27 21 — .563 3 0 — — — —
Int Elijah Robinson 2023 1 3 1 2 — .500 0 1 — .000 0 0 — — — —
30 Mike Elko 2024–present 2 13 8 5 — 0.615 5 3 — 0.625 0 1 — — — —

Notes

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  1. ^ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[4]
  2. ^ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
  3. ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[5]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[6]
  5. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
  6. ^ Texas A&M did not join a conference until 1915.
  7. ^ a b Emory Ballard resigned in the middle of the 1978 season, after going 4–2 (1–2 in conference). Tom Wilson replaced him and finished the season 4–2 (3–2 in conference).[12]

References

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General
  • "Texas A&M Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 16, 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  • "Aggie Football Through the Years". AggieAthletics.com. Archived from the original on June 9, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
  • "Aggie Football's Championships". AggieAthletics.com. Archived from the original on January 17, 2011. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
Specific
  1. ^ "Southwest Athletic Conference: An Inventory of Its Records, 1914–1996 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library". Texas Archival Resources Online. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
  2. ^ "Texas A&M officially joins SEC". ESPN.com. The Associated Press. September 26, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
  3. ^ Greenwald, Michael (December 24, 2006). "Crash course in rooting for Aggies". San Diego Union-Tribune. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2010. Aggies: the school's nickname, reminds us of its agricultural roots when most students were farmers or ranchers.
  4. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  5. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  6. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  7. ^ College Football Hall of Fame profile
  8. ^ College Football Hall of Fame profile
  9. ^ College Football Hall of Fame profile
  10. ^ College Football Hall of Fame profile
  11. ^ College Football Hall of Fame profile
  12. ^ "Texas A&M's Bellard Resigns". Spartanburg Herald. Spartanburg, South Carolina. The Associated Press. October 25, 1978. p. C1. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  13. ^ Zwerneman, Brent (May 15, 2012). "Aggies' Slocum earns Hall of Fame nod". Houston Chronicle. Houston, Texas. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
  14. ^ "Aggies dominate SWC team". The Victoria Advocate. Victoria, Texas. The Associated Press. December 6, 1991. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
  15. ^ "Texas A&M At Colorado". Lawrence Journal-World. Lawrence, Kansas. October 4, 1997. p. 7C. Retrieved February 24, 2010.

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