Auburn Tigers Football

The mascot for the Auburn Tigers football program is a tiger named Aubie. He first appeared on a football program cover in 1959 and has been around ever since. He was created by Phil Neel of the Birmingham Post-Herald.


The 2008 Auburn Tigers football team will represent Auburn University in the 2008-2009 college football season. Head coach Tommy Tuberville returns for his tenth season at Auburn, the second longest tenure at the same school among current SEC head coaches. He is joined by two new coordinators including defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads and offensive coordinator Tony Franklin, who will implement his spread offense in an effort to correct the Tigers' 2007 offensive struggles.

2008 AUBURN TIGERS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Aug/30 Auburn 34 Louisiana-Monroe 0
Sept/06 Auburn 27 Southern Miss 13
Sept/13 Auburn 03 Mississippi State 02
Sept/20 Auburn 21 LSU 26
Sept/27 Auburn 14 Tennessee 12
Oct/04 Auburn 13 Vanderbilt 14
Oct/11 Auburn Arkansas
Oct/23 Auburn 17 West Virginia 34
Nov/01 Auburn 07 Mississippi 17
Nov/08 Auburn 37 Tennessee-Martin 20
Nov/15 Auburn 13 Georgia 17
Nov/29 Auburn 0 Alabama 36

AUBURN TIGERS FOOTBALL 2008 PREVIEW

Auburn has two primary rivals, The University of Alabama and The University of Georgia. Alabama is the most heated rival, and considered to be one of the most intense rivalries in the country. It is known as the Iron Bowl. Alabama holds the all-time edge at 38-33-1.

Georgia and Auburn compete in the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry, dating back to 1892. The game was played in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. The series is extremely close, with Auburn holding a 53-50-8 record. Auburn has only been outscored by Georgia by 45 points in the 111-game history of the series. It is one of the longest running and most played series in the NCAA.

Auburn also has a very competitive football rivalry with the LSU Tigers. The two share more than just a nickname, as they have both enjoyed success in the SEC's Western Division. Auburn or LSU has won at least a share of the SEC Western Division championship for the last six years. Auburn won it outright in 2000 and 2004, LSU tied Auburn and then went on to the SEC Title Game in 2001 and 2005. LSU also won the tiebreaker over Ole Miss in 2003 to go to the SEC Title game. The only two times Auburn or LSU did not go to Atlanta in the last six years was 2002 when Arkansas won the three-way tie breaker with the two Tiger teams, and in 2006 when Arkansas made it to Atlanta with a win over Auburn, and despite losing to LSU.

AUBURN SPRING GAME 2008

TIGER WALK
Before each Auburn home football game, thousands of Auburn fans line Donahue Avenue to cheer on the team as they walk from Sewell Hall (the athletes' dormitory) to Jordan-Hare Stadium. The tradition began in the 1960s when groups of kids would walk up the street to greet the team and get autographs. During the tenure of coach Doug Barfield, the coach urged fans to come out and support the team, and thousands did. Today the team, led by the coaches, walks down the hill and into the stadium surrounded by fans who pat them on the back and shake their hands as they walk. The largest Tiger Walk occurred on December 2, 1989, before the first ever home football game against rival Alabama—the Iron Bowl. On that day, an estimated 20,000 fans packed the one block section of road leading to the stadium.

WAR EAGLE!
There are many stories surrounding the origins of Auburn's battle cry, "War Eagle." The most popular account involves the first Auburn football game in 1892 between Auburn and the University of Georgia. According to the story, in the stands that day was an old Civil War soldier with an eagle that he had found injured on a battlefield and kept as a pet. The eagle broke free and began to soar over the field, and Auburn began to march toward the Georgia end-zone. The crowd began to chant, "War Eagle" as the eagle soared. After Auburn won the game, the eagle crashed to the field and died but, according to the legend, his spirit lives on every time an Auburn man or woman yells "War Eagle!" The battle cry of "War Eagle" also functions as a greeting for those associated with the University. For many years, a live golden eagle has embodied the spirit of this tradition. The eagle, War Eagle VI (nicknamed "Tiger"), was trained in 2000 to fly free around the stadium before every home game to the delight of fans.
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