Texas A&M was selected to play Southern California in the 2024 Las Vegas Bowl

Viva.

It was announced Sunday that Texas A&M is traveling to Nevada to play one of college football’s most recognizable brands in the 2024 SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl.

The Aggies (8-4, 5-3) will face the Southern California Trojans (6-6, 4-5) on Friday, December 27th at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.

Kickoff is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. CT and will be broadcast on ESPN.

The 2024 Las Vegas Bowl will be A&M’s 44th bowl appearance and the second consecutive for the Maroon & White after participating in the 2023 TaxAct Texas Bowl last year.

Overall, A&M is 23-20 in the postseason and has not won a bowl game since defeating North Carolina on Jan. 2, 2021, to secure the program’s first Orange Bowl crown.

This season – Mike Elko’s first as A&M’s head coach – the Ags earned two top-10 wins in October and entered November in first place in the Southeastern Conference. However, A&M dropped its final three league games and was eliminated from the conference and national title races.

A chance to temper that bitter taste comes against USC.

Conversely, 2024 was also a year of firsts for third-year head coach Lincoln Riley’s Men of Troy, who made their Big Ten debut. After a comfortable win over LSU to start the season, USC lost four of its first five conference games. The Trojans earned bowl eligibility with a cross-town victory over UCLA in the penultimate week of the regular season.

A winner of 11 national titles – but none since 2004 – USC has played in 55 bowl games with a record of 35-20 before this year’s Las Vegas Bowl.

This will be the third postseason matchup between A&M and USC and the fourth overall. The Aggies and Trojans last met in the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston in 1977, with USC defeating A&M 47-28. The two schools also played in the 1975 Liberty Bowl, which USC won 20-0. In 1964, A&M and USC played a regular season contest at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in which the home team won 31-7.

Maybe what happens in Las Vegas could boost the Aggie’s momentum in 2025.