Mississippi State at Auburn

Saturday, November 9, 1957

No. 3 Auburn beat No. 17 Mississippi State 15–⁠7. It was their 31st meeting; after it, Auburn led the series 17–⁠12–⁠2 as played.

Away17Mississippi State6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1957
7
Home3Auburn10–⁠0 in 1957
15

FinalHigh 65°F, low 33°F, 0.08 in. of rainAttendance 43,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Auburn Line Overcomes Mississippi State, 15-7

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 10, 1957, page 1

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    Auburn Line Overcomes Mississippi State, 15–⁠7 1000 fans saw the Tigers win their seventh game of this season and their 18th in success sion. Auburn now has a SO record in the Southeastern Confer ence. Remaining conference games are with Georgia and Alabama, downtrodden this season. State was held to 80 yards rushing and 81 passing, leaving the Tiger defensive record for the season unchanged at 1867 per game, lowest in the Nation. Miller’s scoring pass came with four minutes left in the first half. Mississippi AnS,isS State = g Z 9 &,E Mississippi state scoring: Touch dovn--Brooks t57, pass-run from Miller). Conversion-Tribble. Auburn scoring, TouchdownszAt. kins . e, plunge; 3, plunge. Safety Schoenrock tackled in end zone b. Whatley) nversion-Atkins.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Auburn 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Auburn leads 66–⁠28–⁠2; as played, 63–⁠31–⁠3 in 97 meetings, counting the 66 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Auburn 27, Mississippi State 13
2022Mississippi State 39, Auburn 33
2021Mississippi State 43, Auburn 34
2020Auburn 24, Mississippi State 10
2019Auburn 56, Mississippi State 23
2018Mississippi State 23, Auburn 9

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