Auburn played the first football game in the Deep South in 1892 against the University of Georgia at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Auburn Tigers' first bowl appearance was in 1937 in the sixth Bacardi Bowl played in Havana, Cuba. Two Auburn players, Bo Jackson in 1985 and Pat Sullivan in 1971, have won the Heisman Trophy.
As of 2007, Auburn has won six SEC Conference Championships, has had eleven total undefeated seasons, and since the division of the conference in 1992, six western division championships and three trips to the SEC Championship game (1997, 2000, and 2004).
Auburn plays archrival Alabama each year in a game known as the Iron Bowl. |