Auburn vs. Florida State

Auburn and Florida State have 19 meetings on file, the first in 1954; Auburn leads the series 13–⁠5–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s even at 5–⁠5.

Auburn wins
13
Florida State wins
5
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1954
Longest streak
5 Auburn
Current streak
1 Florida State
Last 10 meetings
even at 5–⁠5
Most recent
2013

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s3–⁠0
1960s2–⁠0–⁠1
1970s4–⁠1
1980s3–⁠3
1990s1–⁠0
2010s0–⁠1
Both ranked
9 meetings: Auburn 5, Florida State 4; 4 both in the top 10
Average margin
14.1 points; 9 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Auburn
10–⁠1–⁠1 Auburn’s record at home
At Florida State
2–⁠3 Florida State’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠2 Auburn first
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 win1960: Auburn 57, Florida State 21by 36 points
  2. Florida State’s biggest win1987: Florida State 34, Auburn 6by 28 points
  3. Ranked showdown2013: Florida State 34, Auburn 31No. 1 Florida State at No. 2 Auburn
  4. Ranked showdown1987: Florida State 34, Auburn 6No. 4 Florida State at No. 6 Auburn
  5. Ranked showdown1988: Florida State 13, Auburn 7No. 7 Auburn at No. 4 Florida State
  6. Ranked showdown1990: Auburn 20, Florida State 17No. 7 Florida State at No. 5 Auburn

Coach against coach

YearsAuburnSeriesFlorida State
1954–⁠1957Ralph Jordan3–⁠0Thomas Nugent
1960–⁠1963Ralph Jordan2–⁠0–⁠1Bill Peterson
1983–⁠1990Pat Dye4–⁠3Bobby Bowden

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Auburn’s side (Jordan 3–⁠0 against Nugent). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Auburn and Florida State, 1954 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Jameis Winston Florida State2013
P.J. Williams Florida State2013
Sammie Smith Florida State1988

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Auburn Easily Beats Florida State, $50

    1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 24, 1954

  • The Evening star's story of the 1956 game: Auburn Beats Florida State

    1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 25, 1956

  • The The chronicle's story of the 1963 game: Nebraska To Orange

    1963 · The chronicle, Mississippi, Nov 25, 1963

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.

On television

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2013.

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

Every game

Jan 6, 20141Florida State 34, 2Auburn 31Rose BowlBCS National Championship
Oct 20, 19905Auburn 20, 7Florida State 17at Auburn
Oct 21, 198914Florida State 22, 11Auburn 14at Florida State
Jan 2, 19894Florida State 13, 7Auburn 7Neutral siteSugar Bowl
Nov 7, 19874Florida State 34, 6Auburn 6at Auburn
Oct 12, 198512Auburn 59, 4Florida State 27at Auburn
Oct 13, 198416Auburn 42, 9Florida State 41at Florida State
Oct 1, 198310Auburn 27, 17Florida State 24at Auburn
Oct 22, 1977Florida State 24, Auburn 3at Florida State
Oct 23, 1976Auburn 31, Florida State 19at Auburn
Oct 25, 1975Auburn 17, Florida State 14at Florida State
Oct 26, 19745Auburn 38, Florida State 6at Auburn
Oct 28, 197212Auburn 27, 17Florida State 14at Auburn
Nov 23, 19639Auburn 21, Florida State 15at Auburn
Nov 24, 1962Auburn 14, Florida State 14at Auburn
Nov 19, 19609Auburn 57, Florida State 21at Auburn
Nov 23, 19572Auburn 29, Florida State 7at Florida State
Nov 24, 1956Auburn 13, Florida State 7at Auburn
Oct 23, 1954Auburn 33, Florida State 0at Auburn

Every game is listed as played on the field.