Auburn vs. Duke

Auburn and Duke have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1932; Auburn leads the series 3–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Auburn 3–⁠2, and Auburn has won the last 2.

Auburn wins
3
Duke wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1932
Longest streak
2 Duke
Current streak
2 Auburn
Last 10 meetings
Auburn 3–⁠2
Most recent
1980

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s2–⁠2
1980s1–⁠0
Average margin
7.6 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Auburn
2–⁠1 Auburn’s record at home
At Duke
1–⁠1 Duke’s record at home
Shutouts
1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Auburn’s biggest win1932: Auburn 18, Duke 7by 11 points
  2. Duke’s biggest win1934: Duke 13, Auburn 6by 7 points
  3. Upset1935: Auburn 7, Duke 0Auburn had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Auburn and Duke, 1932 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1932 game: Foot Ball Results LOCAL TEAMS.

    1932 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 9, 1932

  • The Evening star's story of the 1933 game: Duke Keeps Its Record Clean By Defeating Auburn, l3 to Z

    1933 · Evening star, Nov 5, 1933

  • The Evening star's story of the 1934 game: Foot Ball Results

    1934 · Evening star, Nov 4, 1934

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.

Every game

Sep 20, 198019Auburn 35, Duke 28at Auburn
Oct 25, 1935Auburn 7, Duke 0at Duke
Nov 3, 1934Duke 13, Auburn 6at Auburn
Nov 4, 1933Duke 13, Auburn 7at Duke
Oct 8, 1932Auburn 18, Duke 7at Auburn

Every game is listed as played on the field.