Auburn at Georgia Tech

Saturday, October 19, 1963

Auburn beat No. 8 Georgia Tech 29–⁠21. It was their 60th meeting; after it, Georgia Tech led the series 32–⁠25–⁠3.

AwayAuburn9–⁠2 in 1963
29
Home8Georgia Tech7–⁠3 in 1963
21

FinalHigh 79°F, low 55°FAttendance 53,091

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Weekend Football

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 21, 1963, page 7 (results column)

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    Weekend Football Victory cheers are going up in college football for Wisconsin,, H. linois and Mississippi, but they are singing the blues for Georgia Tech. Second Wisconsin re- mained unbeaten and ran it’s win ming streak to four games by edg- ing Iowa 10 to ‘. Seventh-ranked Illinois beat Minnesota 16 to 6 after recovering four Minnesota fumbles. Mississippi, ranked fiji h, trounced winless Tulane 21 to c. Navy downed Virginia Military 2l to l2, with the help of Wierd touchdown in the second period. Northwestern whipped Miami of Ohio 37 to 6. Third-ranked Pitt had to com from behind to beat upset minded West Virginia 13 to 10. Eig th-ranked Georgia Tech Was an upset victim, losing to unde- icatcd Auburn 29 to 21. Nore Dame won it’s second straight game, beating UCLA 27 to I2. A touchdown pass and a touchdown run by Ron Digravio led Purdue to a g to 12 decision oyer M chigan. Michigan State scored three touchdoWns in the second half and beat Indiana 20–⁠3. Nebraska won it’s second straight game in the Big Eight, beating Kansas State 28 to 6. Sophomore quarterback Scotty Glacken threw four touchdown passes and led Duke to a 35 to 30 victory over Clemson.

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)

Georgia Tech 68% to win. Auburn pulled the upset.

Auburn leads 42–⁠41–⁠3 in 86 meetings, counting the 26 since this game.

Recent meetings
2005Georgia Tech 23, Auburn 14
2003Georgia Tech 17, Auburn 3
1987Auburn 20, Georgia Tech 10
1986Auburn 31, Georgia Tech 10
1985Auburn 17, Georgia Tech 14
1984Auburn 48, Georgia Tech 34

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