What To Watch For: Texas A&M vs Vanderbilt

• Texas A&M and Vanderbilt meet for the first time since 2015... A&M holds a 2-0 series advantage and has not allowed the Commodores to score a point in the series since the first meeting in 2013.
• The Aggies have won seven straight home openers and will open the season against an SEC opponent for the third time since joining the league in 2012.
• Senior QB Kellen Mond already ranks in the top five all-time at A&M in nearly every career passing category and is poised to claim the top spots in completions, attempts, passing yards and passing touchdowns in his final season.
• Sophomore RB Isaiah Spiller led the Aggies in scoring last season with 10 touchdowns, while recording four 100-yard rushing games.
• Spiller will be joined in A&M’s offensive backfield by classmate Ainias Smith, who made the move from receiver to running back at the end of the 2019 season.
• The Aggies will have a veteran offensive line at work this season as seniors Carson Green, Jared Hocker and Dan Moore Jr. did not miss a start last season and have each started 20+ games in their careers, while sophomore Kenyon Green started all 13 games in his debut season.
• Junior PK Seth Small needs two field goals to become the eighth Aggie to reach the 40-FG plateau.
• The Aggies’ 2019 statistical leader returns for rushing, passing, total offense, all-purpose, field goals, scoring, tackles, interceptions (tie), punt returns, kickoff returns and special teams tackles.

Quick Hits

• Head Coach Jimbo Fisher earned the 100th win of his career when the Aggies topped Oklahoma State in the Texas Bowl last season.
• The Aggies are 11-3 (.786 win pct.) at Kyle Field under Jimbo Fisher. In the five seasons prior to Fisher’s arrival, the Aggies were 23-12 on their home turf (.657).
• Quick starts have been a harbinger of Aggie victories in the Jimbo Fisher era. The Aggies are 14-4 when scoring first and a perfect 12-0 when leading after the first quarter.
• Senior QB Kellen Mond has passed and rushed for a touchdown in the same game 15 times in his career, more than any other SEC starting quarterback at their current institution.
• Mond is climbing the all-time winningest QB list at A&M and is currently in fifth with a 22-12 record.
• Mond joined Johnny Manziel as the only Aggies in program history to pass for 7,000 yards and rush for 1,000.
• Junior PK Seth Small became the 10th Aggie placekicker in program history to hit the 200-point plateau in career points after making it back-to-back 100-point seasons in his first two years in Aggieland.
• Texas A&M was one of just 10 FBS schools to post a winning record in each season of the 2010’s and was the only school in the state of Texas to go to a Bowl game in every year of the decade for the first time in program history.

Milestones To Watch For

• Senior QB Kellen Mond needs just 236 yards to join Johnny Manziel as the only Aggies to surpass the 9,000-yard plateau in total offense. He needs 121 passing yards to become the third Aggie to reach 7,500 career passing yards.
• Mond needs two rushing TDs to join Johnny Manziel, Joel Hunt and Bucky Richardson as the only Aggie QBs with 20 career rushing scores.
• Mond is slated to make his 35th career start against Vanderbilt (22-12 record as a starter), which would be the second-most by a QB in school history. Corey Pullig (1992-95) is the school record holder with 40 career QB starts (33-6-1).
• Mond currently ranks No. 5 on the Aggies’ winningest QB list, two behind No. 4 Bucky Richardson (24-6-1 from 1987-88, 90-91).
• Sophomore RB Isaiah Spiller needs 54 yards to reach 1,000 career rushing yards in his 14th game.
• Senior OT Carson Green is slated to make his 30th consecutive start, which is the longest streak on the team.
• Senior DB Myles Jones needs two pass breakups to reach 25 for his career.