Miami and Texas A&M have only met five times on the football field, but the series has already has some big moments.
The series began with a 70-14 Texas A&M win in 1944 at Burdine Stadium, still the most lopsided defeat Miami has ever suffered. After a 63-year break, the programs agreed to a home-and-home that helped bridge the end of the Orange Bowl era and the start of Miami's time at Hard Rock Stadium. The Hurricanes swept those 2007-08 games, then split another home-and-home in 2022-23.
Miami and Texas A&M will add another chapter this Saturday when they meet in the first round of the College Football Playoff at Kyle Field, the first CFP appearance for either program and the first playoff game ever played in College Station.
Miami-Texas A&M history
On Dec. 8, 1944, Texas A&M routed the Hurricanes 70-14 at Burdine Stadium, the old Orange Bowl site. That game is Miami's worst loss on record, a low point in a 1-7-1 season during World War II. Then the series went dormant for more than six decades.
In 2002, Miami announced a future home-and-home with Texas A&M that would revive the matchup. The Aggies came to the Orange Bowl first in 2007, and this time it was Miami's turn to pour it on. Kyle Wright threw for 275 yards and two touchdowns, and freshman back Graig Cooper scored twice as Miami jumped out to a 31-0 lead and cruised to a 34-17 win over No. 20 Texas A&M. It was one of the Hurricanes' few marquee victories in the late Larry Coker-Randy Shannon transition years and a reminder of what the Orange Bowl atmosphere could still do.
A year later, the rematch at Kyle Field followed a similar script. On Sept. 20, 2008, Robert Marve threw two touchdown passes, Cooper ran for a career-high 128 yards and two scores, and Miami rolled to a 41-23 win. The Hurricanes averaged nearly seven yards per snap and handed Texas A&M its worst non-conference home loss in two decades, completing a convincing sweep of the home-and-home.
The programs would not see each other again until the expansion era reshaped schedules. In 2022, Miami traveled back to College Station for a prime-time non-conference matchup. Coming off a shocking upset loss to Appalachian State, Texas A&M benched quarterback Haynes King in favor of LSU transfer Max Johnson, who threw for 140 yards and a touchdown in a 17-9 Aggies win over the 13th-ranked Hurricanes. Miami moved the ball but stalled repeatedly in the red zone, settling for three field goals and coming up empty on a late fourth-down try.
The 2023 return game in Miami Gardens flipped the script again. On Sept. 9, 2023, Tyler Van Dyke delivered one of the best performances of his career, throwing five touchdown passes in a 48-33 statement win over No. 23 Texas A&M at Hard Rock Stadium. The Hurricanes erased an early deficit, hit explosive plays in the passing game and scored 31 of the game's final 44 points.
That win put Miami back in front in the all-time series and set the stage for the high-stakes CFP meeting that now looms in College Station. As it stands heading into that playoff clash, Miami owns a 3-2 edge.
Every score in the Miami-Texas A&M series
- Dec. 8, 1944: Texas A&M 70, Miami 14
- Sept. 20, 2007: Miami 34, No. 20 Texas A&M 17
- Sept. 20, 2008: Miami 41, Texas A&M 23
- Sept. 17, 2022: No. 24 Texas A&M 17, No. 13 Miami 9
- Sept. 9, 2023: Miami 48, No. 23 Texas A&M 33
The sixth meeting will come on Dec. 20, 2025, when No. 10 Miami visits No. 7 Texas A&M at Kyle Field in the first round of the College Football Playoff, with the winner advancing to face Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.