1995 Texas A&M Aggies football team

The 1995 Texas A&M Aggies football team completed the season with a 9–3 record. The Aggies had a regular season Southwest Conference record of 5–2.

1995 Texas A&M Aggies football
Alamo Bowl champion
Alamo Bowl, W 22–20 vs. Michigan
Conference	Southwest Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 15
AP	No. 15
1995 record	9–3 (5–2 SWC)
Head coach	R. C. Slocum (7th season)
Offensive coordinator	Steve Ensminger (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Phil Bennett (1st season)
Home stadium	Kyle Field (Capacity: 70,210)

1995 Southwest Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 14 Texas $	7	–	0	–	0			10	–	2	–	1
No. 15 Texas A&M	5	–	2	–	0			9	–	3	–	0
No. 23 Texas Tech	5	–	2	–	0			9	–	3	–	0
Baylor	5	–	2	–	0			7	–	4	–	0
TCU	3	–	4	–	0			6	–	5	–	0
Houston	2	–	5	–	0			2	–	9	–	0
Rice	1	–	6	–	0			2	–	8	–	1
SMU	0	–	7	–	0			1	–	10	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

1995 was the final year of the Southwest Conference. At the end of the season A&M, along with Texas Tech, Baylor, and Texas, would combine with the members of the Big 8 Conference to form the Big 12 Conference, which began play in 1996.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 2	2:30 PM	LSU*	No. 3	Kyle Field College Station, TX (rivalry)	ABC	W 33–17	70,057
September 16	12:00 PM	Tulsa*	No. 3	Kyle Field College Station, TX	Raycom	W 52–9	57,067
September 23	2:30 PM	at No. 7 Colorado*	No. 3	Folsom Field Boulder, CO (College GameDay)	ABC	L 21–29	53,849
October 7	1:00 PM	at Texas Tech	No. 8	Jones Stadium Lubbock, TX (rivalry)		L 7–14	51,205
October 14	1:00 PM	SMU	No. 22	Kyle Field College Station, TX		W 20–17	59,573
October 21	1:00 PM	at Baylor	No. 22	Floyd Casey Stadium Waco, TX (Battle of the Brazos)		W 24–9	51,218
October 28	1:00 PM	Houston	No. 19	Kyle Field College Station, TX		W 31–7	58,277
November 9	7:00 PM	at Rice	No. 18	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	ESPN	W 17–10	39,500
November 18	1:00 PM	Middle Tennessee*	No. 18	Kyle Field College Station, TX		W 56–14	53,549
November 25	1:00 PM	at TCU	No. 15	Amon G. Carter Stadium Fort Worth, TX (rivalry)		W 33–6	44,282
December 2	2:30 PM	No. 9 Texas	No. 16	Kyle Field College Station, TX (rivalry)	ABC	L 6–16	76,221
December 28	7:00 PM	vs. No. 14 Michigan*	No. 18	Alamodome San Antonio, TX (Alamo Bowl)	ESPN	W 22–20	64,597
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

Roster

1995 Texas A&M Aggies football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class QB 4 Corey Pullig Sr QB 7 Branndon Stewart Fr RB 8 Sirr Parker Fr TE 87 Derrick Spiller Fr TE 89 Dan Campbell Fr	Defense Pos. # Name Class ILB 9 Dat Nguyen Fr OLB 43 Warrick Holdman Fr	Special teams Pos. # Name Class	Head coach R.C. Slocum (7th season) Coordinators/assistant coaches Steve Ensminger – Offensive Coordinator Phil Bennett – Defensive Coordinator Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt

Rankings

Main article: 1995 NCAA Division I-A football rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.

	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Final
AP	3 (6)	3 (6)	3 (4)	3 (4)	3 (5)	9	8	22	22	19	17	18	18	15	16	19	15
Coaches Poll	3 (7)	–	3 (4)	3 (5)	3 (4)	10	8	18	19	18	16	14	15	13	13	18	15

Game summaries

LSU

	1	2	3	4	Total
LSU	0	0	14	3	17
#3 Texas A&M	0	12	14	7	33

Tulsa

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tulsa					0
Texas A&M					0

Colorado

	1	2	3	4	Total
Texas A&M	7	0	14	0	21
#7 Colorado	3	14	3	9	29

Texas Tech

See also: 1995 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team and Texas A&M–Texas Tech football rivalry

	1	2	3	4	Total
Texas A&M					0
Texas Tech					0

SMU

	1	2	3	4	Total
SMU					0
Texas A&M					0

Baylor

	1	2	3	4	Total
Texas A&M					0
Baylor					0

Houston

	1	2	3	4	Total
Houston					0
Texas A&M					0

Rice

	1	2	3	4	Total
Texas A&M					0
Rice					0

Middle Tennessee

	1	2	3	4	Total
MTSU					0
Texas A&M					0

TCU

	1	2	3	4	Total
Texas A&M					0
TCU					0

Texas

	1	2	3	4	Total
Texas	0	6	7	3	16
Texas A&M	0	0	3	3	6

Michigan

	1	2	3	4	Total
#14 Michigan	7	3	3	7	20
#18 Texas A&M	10	3	3	6	22

Main article: 1995 Alamo Bowl

References