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The Tennessee Volunteers have added the New Mexico State Aggies to their 2025 program, FBSchedules. com has learned.
A copy of the football game agreement with New Mexico State University received from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, through a state public records request.
Tennessee will host the state of New Mexico at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. Volunteers will pay the Aggies a $1. 6 million guarantee for the contest, according to the contract.
Tennessee and the state of New Mexico have met on the ground.
The state of New Mexico recently finished its first season as a member of Conference USA after stints as an independent Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The Aggies finished the 2023 season with an overall record of 10-5 and 7-1 at the American. Conference.
Tennessee is scheduled to open the 2025 season on Saturday, Aug. 30 against the Syracuse Orange in Aflac’s opener at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Volunteers are expected to welcome the ETSU Buccaneers on Sept. 6 and the UAB. on September 20 at Neyland Stadium that season.
On Wednesday, the SEC announced that each and every team in the league will return to playing an eight-game football convention program in 2025. The conflicting parties for 2025 are the same as in 2024, but with the sites reversed.
Tennessee’s warring parties at the SEC in 2025 come with Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Vanderbilt at home and the states of Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, and Mississippi along the way.
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