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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: The Prowler on September 08, 2009, 08:54:16 PM
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Auburn has never yielded a point during football games played on Sept. 12th. No pressure though.
'87 Kansas (49-0)
'92 Samford (55-0)
'98 Ole Miss (17-0)
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090908/SPORTS030102/909080333/1079/Mullen-says-Lee-to-play-Saturday (http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090908/SPORTS030102/909080333/1079/Mullen-says-Lee-to-play-Saturday)
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I like trivia like that. Really. I hope yall keep the record intact.
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Other stats of interest...
* Auburn is 42-28-5 in SEC openers, and is 15-1 in its last 16 league openers.
* Auburn has won 20 of the last 27 meetings in the series, and has held Mississippi State to 19 or fewer points in 10 straight games.
* Auburn is 16-3 in home night games since the 2000 season, including victories over four nationally-ranked teams.
* Auburn has won 16 consecutive games overall and nine consecutive games at Jordan-Hare Stadium with Gene Chizik on the coaching staff.
* Auburn's 24-point margin of victory against Louisiana Tech was the largest in an Auburn head coaching debut since Carl Voyles won his debut 32-0 over Samford in 1944.
* Onterio McCalebb leads the SEC in all-purpose yards (197), and became the first Auburn freshman to rush for 100 yards in a season opener since Bo Jackson in 1982.
* Auburn totaled 556 yards of offense during the season opener, which is the most in a game by the Tigers since the 2005 season.
* Senior Ben Tate ranks 12th in school history with 2,076 career rushing yards, and needs just 9 yards to pass James Bostic for 11th.
* Senior defensive end Antonio Coleman has 15.5 career sacks, which ranks tied for 10th in Auburn history for career sacks.
* Auburn has 12 true freshmen currently listed on the depth chart, plus a pair of redshirt freshmen.
* Auburn has eight players on its squad that have already graduated, which is tied for fifth most in the nation among FBS schools.
* Auburn has won 50 consecutive games when scoring 30 or more points in a game, dating back to a 56-49, four-overtime loss to Georgia in 1996.
* Now in its 70th year as home to the Auburn football team, Jordan-Hare Stadium is the nation's tenth-largest on-campus stadium with a capacity of 87,451 fans. The Tigers are 266-67-7 (.793) at Jordan-Hare Stadium, including a 52-13 (.800) mark since the start of the 2000 season.
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Other stats of interest...
* Auburn has won 50 consecutive games when scoring 30 or more points in a game, dating back to a 56-49, four-overtime loss to Georgia in 1996.
ugh I was at that game. That was also the very first overtime game with the newly installed possesion overtime format.
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ugh I was at that game. That was also the very first overtime game with the newly installed possesion overtime format.
I was there too and I definitely recall, it was cold as balls by the end of that game.
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I was there too and I definitely recall, it was cold as balls by the end of that game.
yes yes it was, in fact I found some sweet ass Burberry scarf that had blown off of someone and got caught on a chainlink, I grabbed that mofo and gave it as a gift to the misses. Thats how I roll.
Course, we wear lots of scarves down here in South Florida, they don't call it little antartica for nothin.