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Auburn Tigers is the name given to Auburn University athletic teams. The University is a member of the Southeastern Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 18 varsity teams in 13 sports.

Auburn's football team has been named national champions two times: 1957 by the AP poll and 2010 in the BCS system. Auburn was also named national college football champion by several polls in 1913, 1983, 1993, and 2004. Three Auburn players, Bo Jackson in 1985, Pat Sullivan in 1971 and Cameron Newton in 2010 have won the Heisman Trophy.

The Trophy's namesake, John Heisman, coached at Auburn from 1895 until 1899. Auburn is the only school that Heisman coached at (among others, Georgia Tech (Yellow Jackets) and Clemson (Tigers) that has produced a Heisman Trophy winner. Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium has a capacity of 87,451 ranking as the tenth-largest on-campus stadium in the NCAA as of January 2011.

Auburn played the first football game in the Deep South in 1892 against the University of Georgia at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. The Tigers' first bowl appearance was in 1937 in the sixth Bacardi Bowl played in Havana, Cuba. AU Football has won eleven conference championships (7 SEC), has had twelve undefeated seasons, and since the division of the conference in 1992, four western division championships (1997, 2000, 2004, 2010) and four trips to the SEC Championship game (1997, 2000, 2004, and 2010).

Auburn plays archrival Alabama each year in a game known as the Iron Bowl. Auburn won the most recent meeting, on November 26, 2010, by a score of 28/27. In the overall series with Alabama, Auburn trails Alabama 40-34-1, despite having won 7 of the last 10 meetings. Of the 12 SEC member universities, Auburn currently ranks 6th in the number of SEC football championships, behind Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, LSU, and Florida [total of 8, with 1 vacated in 1984].

Auburn completed the 2004 football season with an unblemished 13/0 record winning the SEC championship, their first conference title since 1989 and their first outright title since 1987. However, this achievement was somewhat overshadowed by the Tigers being left out of the BCS championship game in deference to two other undefeated, higher ranked teams, USC and Oklahoma. The 2004 team was led by quarterback Jason Campbell (Washington Redskins), running backs Carnell Williams (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) and Ronnie Brown (Miami Dolphins), and cornerback Carlos Rogers (Washington Redskins).

Auburn completed the 2010 football season with a perfect record of 13/0 winning the SEC championship when they defeated the University of South Carolina 56/17 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta Georgia, which set an SEC Championship Game record for most points scored and largest margin of victory. The Tigers went on to defeat the Oregon Ducks 22 to 19 in their first appearance in the BCS National Championship game on January 10, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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