Auburn vs. Wisconsin

Auburn and Wisconsin have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1931; Wisconsin leads the series 2–⁠1–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Wisconsin 2–⁠1, and Wisconsin has won the last 2.

Auburn wins
1
Wisconsin wins
2
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1931
Longest streak
2 Wisconsin
Current streak
2 Wisconsin
Last 10 meetings
Wisconsin 2–⁠1
Most recent
2014

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠0–⁠1
2000s1–⁠1
2010s0–⁠1
Both ranked
2 meetings: Auburn 0, Wisconsin 2
Average margin
7.8 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Wisconsin
0–⁠0–⁠1 Wisconsin’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠2 Auburn first
Overtime
1 game went to overtime

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Auburn and Wisconsin, 1931 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

Melvin Gordon Wisconsin34 carries, 251 yards, 3 TD2014 Rushing

Named most valuable

Wisconsin RB Melvin Gordon2014

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 Evening star's story of the 1931 game: AUBURN PASSES TIE WISCONSIN, 7 TO 7 Badgers Running Attack and Rain Fail to Conquer Stubborn Southern Invaders.

    1931 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 11, 1931

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

Jan 1, 201517Wisconsin 34, 19Auburn 31overtimeRaymond James StadiumOutback Bowl
Jan 2, 200621Wisconsin 24, 9Auburn 10Neutral siteCapital One Bowl
Dec 31, 2003Auburn 28, Wisconsin 14Goodman StadiumMusic City Bowl
Oct 10, 1931Wisconsin 7, Auburn 7at Wisconsin

Every game is listed as played on the field.