Auburn vs. Texas A&M

Auburn and Texas A&M have 16 meetings on file, the first in 1911; Texas A&M leads the series 9–⁠7 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s even at 5–⁠5.

Auburn wins
7
Texas A&M wins
9
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1911
Longest streak
3 Texas A&M
Current streak
1 Texas A&M
Last 10 meetings
even at 5–⁠5
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠1
1980s0–⁠1
2010s5–⁠3
2020s2–⁠4
Both ranked
4 meetings: Auburn 2, Texas A&M 2
Average margin
12.3 points; 7 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Auburn
3–⁠4 Auburn’s record at home
At Texas A&M
4–⁠4 Texas A&M’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Auburn first
Shutouts
1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Auburn’s biggest win2015: Auburn 26, Texas A&M 10by 16 points
  2. Texas A&M’s biggest win2012: Texas A&M 63, Auburn 21by 42 points
  3. Upset2013: Auburn 45, Texas A&M 41Auburn had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset2014: Texas A&M 41, Auburn 38Texas A&M had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset2015: Auburn 26, Texas A&M 10Auburn had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  6. Ranked showdown2021: Texas A&M 20, Auburn 3No. 12 Auburn at No. 13 Texas A&M
  7. Ranked showdown2019: Auburn 28, Texas A&M 20No. 8 Auburn at No. 17 Texas A&M
  8. Ranked showdown1985: Texas A&M 36, Auburn 16No. 16 Auburn at No. 11 Texas A&M

Coach against coach

YearsAuburnSeriesTexas A&M
2013–⁠2017Gus Malzahn3–⁠2Kevin Sumlin
2018–⁠2020Gus Malzahn2–⁠1Jimbo Fisher

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Auburn’s side (Malzahn 3–⁠2 against Sumlin). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Auburn and Texas A&M, 1911 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Mike Evans Texas A&M11 catches, 287 yards, 4 TD2013 Receiving
Cameron Artis-Payne Auburn30 carries, 221 yards, 2 TD2014 Rushing

Named most valuable

Domingo Bryant1985
Bo Jackson Auburn1985

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1911 game: TEXAS A. AND M. DOWNS AUBURN IN A HARD FOUGHT GAME

    1911 · The Birmingham age-herald, Oct 22, 1911

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

On television

2025ESPN2.5 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Sep 27, 20259Texas A&M 16, Auburn 10at Texas A&M
Nov 23, 2024Auburn 43, 15Texas A&M 41at Auburn
Sep 23, 2023Texas A&M 27, Auburn 10at Texas A&M
Nov 12, 2022Auburn 13, Texas A&M 10at Auburn
Nov 6, 202113Texas A&M 20, 12Auburn 3at Texas A&M
Dec 5, 20205Texas A&M 31, Auburn 20at Auburn
Sep 21, 20198Auburn 28, 17Texas A&M 20at Texas A&M
Nov 3, 2018Auburn 28, 25Texas A&M 24at Auburn
Nov 4, 201716Auburn 42, Texas A&M 27at Texas A&M
Sep 17, 201617Texas A&M 29, Auburn 16at Auburn
Nov 7, 2015Auburn 26, 25Texas A&M 10at Texas A&M
Nov 8, 2014Texas A&M 41, 3Auburn 38at Auburn
Oct 19, 201324Auburn 45, 7Texas A&M 41at Texas A&M
Oct 27, 201222Texas A&M 63, Auburn 21at Auburn
Jan 1, 198611Texas A&M 36, 16Auburn 16Neutral siteCotton Bowl
Oct 21, 1911Texas A&M 16, Auburn 0at Texas A&M

Every game is listed as played on the field.