Auburn vs. South Carolina

Auburn and South Carolina have 14 meetings on file, the first in 1930; Auburn leads the series 10–⁠3–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Auburn 8–⁠2, and South Carolina has won the last 2.

Auburn wins
10
South Carolina wins
3
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1930
Longest streak
8 Auburn
Current streak
2 South Carolina
Last 10 meetings
Auburn 8–⁠2
Most recent
2021

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s2–⁠1–⁠1
1990s2–⁠0
2000s2–⁠0
2010s4–⁠0
2020s0–⁠2
Both ranked
2 meetings: Auburn 2, South Carolina 0
Average margin
11.8 points; 9 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Auburn
6–⁠1 Auburn’s record at home
At South Carolina
2–⁠3–⁠1 South Carolina’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Auburn first

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Auburn’s biggest win2005: Auburn 48, South Carolina 7by 41 points
  2. South Carolina’s biggest win2020: South Carolina 30, Auburn 22by 8 points
  3. Upset1930: Auburn 25, South Carolina 7Auburn had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Ranked showdown2010: Auburn 56, South Carolina 17No. 2 Auburn at No. 18 South Carolina
  5. Ranked showdown2010: Auburn 35, South Carolina 27No. 12 South Carolina at No. 17 Auburn

Coach against coach

YearsAuburnSeriesSouth Carolina
1930–⁠1933Chet Wynne2–⁠1–⁠1Billy Laval
2010–⁠2011Gene Chizik3–⁠0Steve Spurrier

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Auburn’s side (Wynne 2–⁠1–⁠1 against Laval). 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 South Carolina, 1930 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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Cam Newton Auburn17 of 28, 335 yards, 4 TD2010 Passing
Darvin Adams Auburn7 catches, 217 yards, 2 TD2010 Receiving
Alshon Jeffery South Carolina8 catches, 192 yards, 2 TD2010 Receiving

Named most valuable

Cam Newton Auburn2010

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).

From the newspapers

  • The The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current's story of the 1932 game: Powerful Auburn Meets Match in South Carolina PIainsmen's Dreams Of Unsul- lied Record Spoiled BY 20 to 20 Deadlock

    1932 · The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, Dec 5, 1932

  • The Evening star's story of the 1933 game: AUBURN IS D0WNED by SOUTH CAROLINA GameCocks Take Lead, Then Weather Air Attack to Triumph, 1914.

    1933 · Evening star, Dec 3, 1933

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

Nov 20, 2021South Carolina 21, Auburn 17at South Carolina
Oct 17, 2020South Carolina 30, 14Auburn 22at South Carolina
Oct 25, 20145Auburn 42, South Carolina 35at Auburn
Oct 1, 2011Auburn 16, 10South Carolina 13at South Carolina
Dec 4, 20102Auburn 56, 18South Carolina 17Georgia DomeSEC Championship Game
Sep 25, 201017Auburn 35, 12South Carolina 27at Auburn
Sep 28, 20062Auburn 24, South Carolina 17at South Carolina
Oct 1, 2005Auburn 48, South Carolina 7at Auburn
Oct 4, 19978Auburn 23, South Carolina 6at South Carolina
Oct 5, 199620Auburn 28, South Carolina 24at Auburn
Dec 2, 1933South Carolina 16, Auburn 14at Auburn
Dec 3, 1932South Carolina 20, Auburn 20at South Carolina
Nov 26, 1931Auburn 13, South Carolina 6at Auburn
Nov 27, 1930Auburn 25, South Carolina 7at Auburn

Every game is listed as played on the field.