No. 15 A&M Closes Regular Season at LSU

No. 15 Texas A&M wraps the regular season Saturday night when the Aggies travel to Baton Rouge to battle LSU (6 p.m., ESPN).

Game 12: Texas A&M (8-3, 4-3) at LSU (5-6, 2-5)

• Saturday, November 27 • 6:05 p.m. (CT)
• Tiger Stadium (102,321)
• TV: ESPN
• Radio: Texas A&M Sports Network, Sirius/XM 81
• Live Audio: 12th Man Mobile app
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What to Watch For

• Texas A&M hits the road to take on LSU for the 60th time in the series that dates back to 1906 ... The Aggies have taken two of the last three meetings with the Tigers.
• Junior RB Isaiah Spiller, who ranks third in the SEC with 984 rushing yards on the season, is 34 yards away from becoming the seventh Aggie to rush for 3,000 yards in their career.
• Sophomore RB Devon Achane looks to continue climbing A&M’s single-season all-purpose yards chart as he enters the week with 1,328 which is good for 24th.
• Junior DL DeMarvin Leal ranks in the top five in the SEC with 11.5 tackles for loss and 7.5 sacks on the year, registering at least 1.0 sack in each of the last two games.
• Senior PLK Seth Small took sole possession of A&M’s all-time career scoring record with a 27-yard field goal against Prairie View, upping his career total to 371 points to pass 2011 Lou Groza Award winner Randy Bullock’s (2008-11) record of 365 points.
• Small, who recently claimed A&M’s career made field goals record, enters the week in a tie for seventh with Jeff Hall (1995-98) of Tennessee on the SEC’s all-time scoring list and his 70 career made field goals puts him in a tie for ninth with South Carolina’s Parker White and Caleb Sturgis (2008-12) of Florida.

Quick Hits

• Sophomore RB Devon Achane made it back-to-back multi-touchdown games, making a pair of trips to the end zone at Ole Miss and against Prairie View ... He has now scored multiple times in a game four times this season and six times in his career.
• Junior WR Ainias Smith ranks 10th in the nation and is third in the SEC as he averages 11.3 yards per return.
• Senior PLK Seth Small leads the SEC with 21 made field goals this season and ranks fourth among all league players averaging 8.8 points per game on the year.
• Sophomore P Nik Constantinou ranks 10th in the nation and atop the SEC, as he boasts a 47.0 yards per punt average on the season.
• After only making 1.0 sack through A&M’s first five games, senior DL Tyree Johnson has has tallied 7.0 sacks over the last six games, including 2.0 solo sacks against Auburn ... His 8.0 sacks on the season are good for third in the SEC.
• The Aggies rank second in scoring defense, allowing just 14.9 points per game, as well as 11th in passing defense (182.4) in the country, both of which are good for second-best in the SEC ... The unit also sits in third in total defense (319.8) and fourth in total sacks (33.0).
• A&M scored on five of its six trips to the red zone against Prairie View and have now scored on 27 of its last 29 trips to the red zone, dating back to the New Mexico game.
• Quick starts have been a harbinger of Aggie victories in the Jimbo Fisher era ... The Aggied are 26-4 when scoring first and a perfect 24-0 when leading after the first quarter.

Milestone Watch

• Junior WR Ainias Smith is just 57 yards away from cracking the top 10 on A&M’s all-time career punt return yards list, tallying 524 on 54 returns so far in his career.
• Sophomore RB Devon Achane needs just 72 yards to break into the top 20 on A&M’s single-season all-purpose yards list with 1,328 on the year.
• Junior RB Isaiah Spiller needs 34 yards to become just the seventh Aggie to rush for 3,000 yards in their career and is one rushing score away from cracking the top 16 all-time at A&M, entering the week with 25 ... He is also in need of 16 all-purpose yards to move into the top 10 on A&M’s all-time career list.
• A&M is looking for its fourth game of the year with a pair of 100-yard rushers ... The last time the Aggies had four games in a season with two 100+ yard rushers was 1990.