Auburn vs. Clemson

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in. Overtime games from the games’ Wikipedia articles.

1. Auburn’s biggest win1921: Auburn 56, Clemson 0by 56 points
2. Clemson’s biggest win1950: Clemson 41, Auburn 0by 41 points
3. Upset1904: Auburn 5, Clemson 0Auburn had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1941: Auburn 28, Clemson 7Auburn had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1952: Auburn 3, Clemson 0Auburn had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2017: Clemson 14, Auburn 6No. 13 Auburn at No. 3 Clemson
7. Ranked showdown2007: Auburn 23, Clemson 20No. 16 Clemson at No. 23 Auburn

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Auburn’s side (Donahue 3–⁠1 against Williams). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1904 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Oct 21, 1904

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  1905 · The Montgomery advertiser, Alabama, Nov 12, 1905

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  1906 · The Montgomery advertiser, Nov 11, 1906

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  1910 · The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., Oct 23, 1910

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  1911 · The Richmond Virginian, Richmond, Va., Oct 16, 1911

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2010.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Auburn vs. Georgia123 meetings, Auburn 53–⁠64–⁠6
• Auburn vs. Mississippi State97 meetings, Auburn 63–⁠31–⁠3
• Auburn vs. Georgia Tech86 meetings, Auburn 42–⁠41–⁠3
• Auburn vs. Florida86 meetings, Auburn 44–⁠40–⁠2
• Clemson vs. South Carolina117 meetings, Clemson 70–⁠43–⁠4
• Clemson vs. NC State91 meetings, Clemson 60–⁠30–⁠1
• Clemson vs. Wake Forest90 meetings, Clemson 72–⁠17–⁠1
• Clemson vs. Georgia Tech88 meetings, Clemson 34–⁠52–⁠2