Auburn Tigers Tickets : Auburn Was Ranked First In The Bcs Poll For The First Time In School History

The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football

as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium has a capacity of 87,451, ranking as the eighth-largest on-campus stadium in the NCAA. The team is coached by Gene Chizik, who was hired on December 13, 2008, replacing Tommy Tuberville, who resigned at the end of the 2008 season.

The Tigers played the first football game in the Deep South in 1892, with the program's first bowl appearance coming the 1936 season in the sixth Bacardi Bowl played in Havana, Cuba. As of 2009, AU Football has had 78 winning seasons, 35 bowl appearances, twenty-four 9+ win seasons, eleven undefeated seasons and ten conference championships.

Auburn has played in the Southeastern Conference since its inception in 1933 and has won six SEC Conference Championships; since the divisional realignment of the conference in 1992, Auburn has won the Western Division title six times including three trips to the SEC Championship game.

The College Football Research Center lists Auburn as the 14th best college football program in history, with eight Auburn squads listed in Billingsley Top 200 Teams of All Time (1869/2006). ESPN ranked Auburn 21st overall and 22nd in the BCS era,behind several other SEC schools, including Florida, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, and arch-rival Alabama.

The Associated Press poll statistics show Auburn with the 11th best national record of being ranked in the final AP Poll and 12th overall (ranked 470 times out of 970 polls since the poll began in 1936), with an average ranking of 11.26.Since the Coaches Poll first released a final poll in 1950, Auburn has 25 seasons where the team finished in the top 20 in both the AP and Coaches Polls.

Auburn has the 13th most wins in D-1A college football. In terms of winning percentage, Auburn ranks as the 9th most successful team in the past 25 years with a 71.6% win rate and 12th over the last 50 years with 63.0% .Of the 93 current I-A football programs that been active since Auburn first fielded a team 116 years ago, Auburn ranks 13th in winning percentage over that period.

While Auburn had finished ranked in the top-15 in four consecutive seasons starting with the 2004 undefeated season, a poor 5-7 showing in 2008 led to head coach Tommy Tubervile's paid resignation. New head coach Gene Chizik was hired December 13, 2008 and brought in an entirely new staff.

The 2009 season saw the Tigers face a difficult schedule, including away games at Tennessee, Arkansas, LSU and Georgia, with non-conference foes including West Virginia and Ball State (coming off a 12-2 season). The Tigers managed an 8-5 season record after defeating Northwestern in their New Year's Day bowl matchup (2010 Outback Bowl).

On October 24, 2010, Auburn was ranked first in the BCS polls for the first time in school history. Their quarterback, Cameron Newton, became a Heisman Trophy candidate. He has a total of 2,254 yards passing this year and 28 passing touchdowns. He has rushed for 1,336 yards and 20 touchdowns. Auburn ended the 2010 regular season a perfect 12-0 after a come-back win over cross-state rival, Alabama, in the 75th "Iron Bowl" game by a score of 28-27.

Auburn defeated South Carolina in the December 4th, 2010 SEC Championship game in Atlanta, GA by a score of 56 -17. This SEC Championship victory clenched Auburn's birth to the BCS National Championship Game scheduled to take place in Glendale, Arizona on January 10th, 2011 against the Oregon Ducks.

Auburn football teams have been invited to participate in 35 total bowls and have garnered a record of 20/13/2. Auburn ranks as one of the best programs in the nation in success in bowl games. Auburn ranks 16th in all-time bowl appearances with 35, 13th in all-time bowl wins with 20, and tied for 22nd in all-time bowl win percentage at .600.

On January 1, 2010, Auburn defeated Northwestern in the Outback Bowl in overtime, 38-35. Auburn has won 3 straight bowl games and 6 out of their last 7.

by: Cynthia Hoffman

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