Texas A&M has more than 200 registered student organizations: major-specific clubs, service groups, men's and women's organizations, club sports, cultural and spiritual groups, and general-interest orgs covering pretty much everything else.

Aggie gameday starts hours before kickoff, and most of it happens outside the stadium. Tailgating spreads across a few zones around campus, mainly Aggie Park and the Reed Arena area (also called West Campus), with full-service setups available at Aggie Park, Reed Arena, and Simpson Drill Field for anyone who'd rather skip the folding-table-and-cooler routine entirely. If this is your first Aggie gameday, here's the actual shape of it.