Coach Mike Elko’s debut season with Texas A&M wraps up in Sin City, where the Aggies meet USC for just the fourth time ever at the SRS Distribution Las

Las Vegas began blooming on the Nevada desert nearly a century ago thanks in part to the building of the Hoover Dam, and now Texas A&M coach Mike Elko hopes his program’s holidays sojourn to the bright lights on the sand helps bring a similar mushrooming for the Aggies.

ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) has a prediction for Texas A&M’s bowl game matchup against USC. The 2 sides are set to meet in the Las Vegas Bowl on Friday evening. FPI sees this game as a virtual tossup, with the Trojans have the slight edge. They have a 50.6% chance to win the game outright, according to FPI.

Texas A&M football plays USC for the first time in decades Friday in the Las Vegas Bowl. A ninth win would be quite the punctuation mark for Mike Elko's first year as head coach for the Aggies. Former head coaches Jimbo Fisher and Kevin Sumlin, Elko's predecessors, accomplished a nine-win season a total of four times.

The USC Trojans will play the Texas A&M Aggies in the Las Vegas Bowl. Can USC finish off 2024 on a good note? USC coach Lincoln Riley looks to finish the season above .500 against Texas A&M coach Mike Elko and the Aggies.

Texas A&M (8-4) will cap off the 2024 season and coach Mike Elko's inaugural campaign in style, as the Aggies will face USC (6-6) in the annual Las Vegas Bowl on Friday night with a chance to finish the year with nine wins for the first time since the 2020 season.