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Texas A&M Football: 10 best coaches in program history

By Andrew Miller

24 Nov 2000: Head Coach R.C. Slocum of the Texas A&M Aggies watches the action from the sidelines during the game against the Texas Longhorns at the Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. The Longhorns defeated the Aggies 43-17.Mandatory Credit: Brian Bahr /Allsport
24 Nov 2000: Head Coach R.C. Slocum of the Texas A&M Aggies watches the action from the sidelines during the game against the Texas Longhorns at the Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. The Longhorns defeated the Aggies 43-17.Mandatory Credit: Brian Bahr /Allsport /
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COLLEGE STATION, TX – OCTOBER 14: Head coach Dennis Franchione of the Texas A&M Aggies looks on against the Missouri Tigers at Kyle Field on October 14, 2006 in College Station, Texas. Texas A&M won 25-19. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
COLLEGE STATION, TX – OCTOBER 14: Head coach Dennis Franchione of the Texas A&M Aggies looks on against the Missouri Tigers at Kyle Field on October 14, 2006 in College Station, Texas. Texas A&M won 25-19. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /

There’s a few names omitted from this list that could have a qualm with being left out. However, it’s hard to say that a guy like Dennis Franchione would be too far out of the top 10 in Texas A&M’s history, even with some bigger names on the outside looking in.

A recent head coach for the Texas State Bobcats, including when they made the jump from the FCS to FBS, Franchione is a pretty significant name across the central part of the state in terms of the football world. Franchoine did have around the same tenure with the Bobcats that he did the Aggies.

The tenure for Franchione in College Station was one of a tons of ups and downs and controversy. He started things off with the Aggies in the 2003 season with the program’s first losing record in 21 years, at the time. Texas A&M showed some improvement in 2004, only to see some more regression in 2005.

A scandal known as the newsletter controversy would ultimately end the Franchione-era for the Aggies. He resigned in the middle of the 2007 season, after his best campaign with the team that came in 2006. The timing of the whole thing is a shame considering Franchione took Texas A&M to a nine win triumph, and a win over hated in-state rival Texas Longhorns, in 2006. It was a roller coaster ride for Franchione with the Aggies, but he did see some large success levels in his nearly five years in College Station.