COLLEGE STATION --- The Texas A&M football team finished fall camp with a single workout on Friday and now will focus its attention on the Sept. 4 season-opener against SMU at Kyle Field.
The rare Sunday meeting between the Aggies and Mustangs kicks off at 6:30 p.m., and will be televised nationally by Fox Sports Net. The two old Southwest Conference rivals have played 77 times previously with the most recent meeting being a 66-8 Aggie win in 2005. A&M is 9-0-1 against Mustangs over the last 10 meetings, and the last SMU win in the series came in 1984.
The Aggies are coming off a 9-4 season in 2010 that included a share of the Big 12 South Division title and a trip to the AT&T Cotton Bowl. The Aggies have 60 lettermen returning from that squad, including an impressive 18 offensive or defensive starters.
A&M will go into the 2011 season as a consensus top 10 team for the first time since 1999. The Aggies are ranked No. 8 in the Associated Press media poll, No. 9 in the USA Today head coaches poll and ESPN.com's Power Ranking and No. 10 in the Football Writers Association's Grantland Rice Super 16.
Aggies Close Fall Camp, Gear up for SMU
The Texas A&M football team finished fall camp with a single workout on Friday and now will focus its attention on the Sept. 4 season-opener against SMU at Kyle Field.