The Texas A&M Aggies have added a home contest against The Citadel, which completes their 2026 football schedule, it was announced Thursday.
Texas A&M will host The Citadel at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. The game will mark only the second meeting between the two schools on the gridiron.
In their first matchup on the gridiron on Sept. 2, 2006, the Aggies defeated the Bulldogs in College Station, 35-3.
The Citadel is a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Bulldogs finished the 2025 season 4-8 overall and 3-5 in SoCon action.
Texas A&M was previously scheduled to host the Tarleton State Texans in 2026, but the two schools mutually agreed to cancel the game last month.
In other non-conference action in 2026, Texas A&M is slated to host the Missouri State Bears on Sept. 5 and the Arizona State Sun Devils on Sept. 12.
Texas A&M’s complete SEC football schedule for 2026 was revealed Thursday evening. The Aggies will host Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas and will visit Alabama, LSU, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
Below is Texas A&M’s complete schedule for the 2026 season, plus a link to its schedule page which will be updated with kickoff times and TV as they are announced:
2026 Texas A&M Football Schedule
09/05 – MISSOURI STATE
09/12 – ARIZONA STATE
09/19 – KENTUCKY
09/26 – at LSU
10/03 – ARKANSAS
10/10 – at Missouri
10/17 – THE CITADEL
10/24 – at Alabama
10/31 – Open Date
11/07 – at South Carolina
11/14 – TENNESSEE
11/21 – at Oklahoma
11/27 – TEXAS (Fri.)
* SEC contest.
Yep, just like an SEC to schedule ZERO OOC true road games!
Always nice to see a fellow SEC hater.
GET RID OF THE LATE SEASON CUPCAKE!!!!! It is disrespectful and insulting to the rest of the college football that the SEC continues to do this.
I do not think Texas A&M ought to be scheduling teams like The Citadel at all, but for the life of me I do not see the difference between playing The Citadel (if they must) in October vs September.
There are some advantages to playing non-conference or OOC games later in the season.
First, playing non-conference games later in the year spreads out home games. A team that front-loads OOC game in September runs the risk of playing over half their OOC games early in the year. By scheduing some home games later in the year, there is a more even distribution of home games for fans.
Second, having OOC games later in the year means more conference games and more quality games for leading TV partners earlier in the season.
Third, playing guarantee games later in the year gives teams in top conferences something akin but not exactly like an open date during the tough conference schedule. Texas A&M has Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri, LSU on the schedule and it makes sense to not backload entirely those games.
But most important of all, it simply makes no difference WHEN a team plays its OOC games.