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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 one time by the Associated Press title in 1957. Two Auburn players, Bo Jackson in 1985 and Pat Sullivan in 1971, 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 eighth-largest on-campus stadium in the NCAA as of August 2004. 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. As of 2005, AU Football has won six SEC Conference Championships, has had eleven total undefeated seasons, and since the division of the conference in 1992, six western division championships (1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005)[1]and three trips to the SEC Championship game (1997, 2000, and 2004). Auburn plays archrival Alabama each year in a game known as the Iron Bowl. Auburn lost the most recent meeting, on November 29, 2008, by a score of 36-0.
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). In 2007, the NFL drafted 5 Auburn players including Anthony Mix (New York Giants) Ben Grubbs (Baltimore Ravens), David Irons (Atlanta Falcons), Kenny Irons (Cincinnati Bengals), Courtney Taylor (Seattle Seahawks) and Will Herring (Seattle Seahawks).
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