2012 Texas A&M Aggies football team

The 2012 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aggies were led by first-year head coach Kevin Sumlin in their first year as a member of the Southeastern Conference, playing in the SEC's Western Division. They played their home games at Kyle Field. Because the Aggies scheduled two FCS opponents, they needed seven wins in the regular season to become eligible for postseason competition (if they beat both FCS teams); Texas A&M won 10 games in the regular season (including both games against FCS opponents) and thus was bowl-eligible.

2012 Texas A&M Aggies football
Cotton Bowl Classic champion
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
DivisionWestern Division
Ranking
CoachesNo. 5
APNo. 5
Record11–2 (6–2 SEC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorKliff Kingsbury (1st season)
Offensive schemeAir raid
Defensive coordinatorMark Snyder (1st season)
Co-defensive coordinatorMarcel Yates (1st season)
Base defense4–3
Captains
  • Pat Lewis
  • Sean Porter
  • Ryan Swope
  • Steven Terrell
Home stadiumKyle Field
2012 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
Eastern Division
No. T–5 Georgia xy  7 1   12 2  
No. 9 Florida x%  7 1   11 2  
No. 8 South Carolina  6 2   11 2  
No. 23 Vanderbilt  5 3   9 4  
Missouri  2 6   5 7  
Tennessee  1 7   5 7  
Kentucky  0 8   2 10  
Western Division
No. 1 Alabama x$#  7 1   13 1  
No. 14 LSU *  6 2   10 3  
No. T–5 Texas A&M  6 2   11 2  
Mississippi State  4 4   8 5  
Ole Miss *  3 5   7 6  
Arkansas  2 6   4 8  
Auburn  0 8   3 9  
Championship: Alabama 32, Georgia 28
  • # BCS National Champion
  • $ BCS representative as conference champion
  • % BCS at-large representative
  • x Division champion/co-champions
  • y Championship game participant
  • * Ole Miss and LSU vacated all wins due to NCAA violations.
Rankings from AP Poll

During the offseason, in anticipation of the demand for tickets from students and to comply with SEC rules, Texas A&M reallocated some student seating sections, a net gain of 128 seats bringing the student section to 30,284 seats, the largest in the nation.

On March 27, 2012, Texas A&M announced that season tickets were sold out, making it the earliest sellout in school history.

The 2012 football season was highly successful for the Aggies. The team went 11–2, with victories over then-#1 Alabama and later Oklahoma in the 2013 Cotton Bowl Classic. Quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to be awarded the Heisman Trophy, and only the second Aggie player ever to win the Heisman. Texas A&M's 5th-place finish in the AP Poll was the highest for the program since 1956.

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