Auburn Tigers | |
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University | Auburn University |
Conference | Southeastern Conference |
NCAA | Division I/FBS |
Athletic director | Jay Jacobs |
Location | Auburn, Alabama |
Varsity teams | 19 |
Football stadium | Jordan–Hare Stadium |
Basketball arena | Auburn Arena |
Baseball stadium | Plainsman Park |
Mascot | Aubie |
Nickname | Tigers |
Fight song | War Eagle (Auburn Fight Song) |
Colors | Navy Blue and Burnt Orange |
Website | www |
The Auburn Tigers are the athletic teams of Auburn University. The university is a member of the Southeastern Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 19 varsity teams in 13 sports:
Auburn has won 16 NCAA team national championships.
Below are nine national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA:
Auburn claims two national championships, 1957 and 2010, but has been recognized with three additional national championships from NCAA documented selectors: 1913, 1983, and 1993. Three Auburn players, Pat Sullivan in 1971, Bo Jackson in 1985, and Cam Newton in 2010 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 and Clemson) that has produced a Heisman Trophy winner. Auburn's Jordan–Hare Stadium has a capacity of 87,451 ranking as the tenth-largest on-campus stadium in the NCAA as of January 2011. 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. AU Football has won 12 conference championships (8 SEC), has had seven perfect seasons, and since the division of the conference in 1992, five outright western division championships (1997, 2000, 2004, 2010, 2013) along with three additional co-championships. Auburn plays archrival Alabama each year in a game known as the Iron Bowl. In the overall series with Alabama, Auburn trails Alabama 42-35-1, despite holding an 18-14 advantage in games played since 1982. Of the 14 SEC member universities, Auburn currently ranks 5th in the number of SEC football championships, and has won the most SEC titles of any program in the last decade.