Auburn Tigers

About Auburn Tigers

Auburn Tigers is the name given to Auburn University athletic teams. The university is a member of the Southeastern Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 18 varsity teams in 13 sports:

Auburn's football team, currently coached by Tommy Tuberville, have been named national champions one time by the Associated Press title in 1957. Two Auburn players, Bo Jackson in 1985 and Pat Sullivan in 1971, have won the Heisman Trophy. The Trophy's namesake, John Heisman, coached at Auburn from 1895 until 1899. Auburn is the only school that Heisman coached at (among others, Georgia Tech (Yellow Jackets) and Clemson (Tigers)) that has produced a Heisman Trophy winner. Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium has a capacity of 87,451 ranking as the eighth-largest on-campus stadium in the NCAA as of August 2004. Auburn played the first football game in the Deep South in 1892 against the University of Georgia at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. The Tigers' first bowl appearance was in 1937 in the sixth Bacardi Bowl played in Havana, Cuba. As of 2005, AU Football 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 (1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005)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. Auburn has won the last six meetings.