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.

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.

The Texas A&M Aggies and the USC Trojans are set for quite the poker matchup in Sin City as the two teams meet at Allegiant Stadium in the SRS Distributions Las

Scouting report, betting odds, time, TV/radio information and key matchups for Texas A&M vs USC as the Aggies face the Trojans in the Las Vegas Bowl.

Texas A&M (8-4) will take on the USC Trojans (6-6) in the annual Las Vegas Bowl, as Coach Mike Elko's first season with the program will come to an official close and hopefully end with a victory against a historic program.

USC and Texas A&M face off in the Las Vegas Bowl as we continue our college football odds series with a USC-Texas A&M prediction and pick.