Auburn vs. Texas
Auburn and Texas have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1910; Texas leads the series 5–3 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Texas 5–3, and Auburn has won the last 2. Share
2027 at Texas; 2029 at Auburn. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Auburn wins
- 3
- Texas wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1910
- Longest streak
- 3 Texas
- Current streak
- 2 Auburn
- Last 10 meetings
- Texas 5–3
- Most recent
- 1991
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 1–2 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 3 meetings: Auburn 1, Texas 2; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 16.5 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Auburn
- 1–1 Auburn’s record at home
- At Texas
- 4–1 Texas’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Auburn first
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Auburn’s biggest win1987: Auburn 31, Texas 3by 28 points
- Texas’s biggest win1925: Texas 33, Auburn 0by 33 points
- Ranked showdown1983: Texas 20, Auburn 7No. 3 Texas at No. 5 Auburn
- Ranked showdown1984: Texas 35, Auburn 27No. 11 Auburn at No. 4 Texas
- Ranked showdown1974: Auburn 27, Texas 3No. 11 Texas at No. 6 Auburn
Both programs through the years
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
| Phil Gargis Auburn | 1974 |
| Earl Campbell Texas | 1974 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1911 · Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.], Nov 19, 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.
Every game
| Sep 21, 1991 | 13Auburn 14, Texas 10 | at Texas | ||
| Sep 5, 1987 | 5Auburn 31, Texas 3 | at Auburn | ||
| Sep 15, 1984 | 4Texas 35, 11Auburn 27 | at Texas | ||
| Sep 17, 1983 | 3Texas 20, 5Auburn 7 | at Auburn | ||
| Dec 30, 1974 | 6Auburn 27, 11Texas 3 | Neutral site | Gator Bowl | |
| Oct 17, 1925 | Texas 33, Auburn 0 | at Texas | ||
| Nov 17, 1911 | Texas 18, Auburn 5 | at Texas | ||
| Oct 29, 1910 | Texas 9, Auburn 0 | at Texas |
Every game is listed as played on the field.