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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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This is where we really get into the meat of the best Texas A&M head football coaches of all-time. Jackie Sherrill is one of the more recent Aggies’ that’ll be remembered in the hearts of Texas A&M fans for a long time. He took a few years to build up the program, after taking over in place of Tom Wilson.

Texas A&M saw steady improvement through Sherill’s first three years. Then, he took Texas A&M to the next level while reeling in three Southwest Conference Titles, among the best of all head coaches in program history too. His best overall finish came during the 1985 campaign when the Aggies wound up with a No. 6 final ranking in the AP and Coaches Polls, and came up with a Cotton Bowl victory.

That would be one of two Cotton Bowl victories for Sherrill during his tenure in College Station. The stretch of three years, ranging from 1985-1987, were three of the better seasons in the history of the program too. However, fans saw a downfall for the Aggies in 1988, managing just seven wins after double digit win seasons in two of the previous three years. Sherrill was gone the following year, coaching up Mississippi State next.

Sherrill’s career would eventual tail to an end in Starkville, MS, in 2003, where he racked up just two wins in his final year as a head coach at the college level. The best years of his coaching career came with both Texas A&M and the Pittsburgh Panthers. He is also credited with establishing a renouned tradition in the “12th Man Kickoff Team”.