Auburn·SEC

2018 — The Winning Chapter

Auburn's 2018 season (8-5) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 8-5
Final result Bowl season Won the Music City Bowl
AP final #21 post-bowls
SP+ +11.5 last-week
Era The Malzahn Era
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Washin 21-16 W vs Alab Sta 63-9 L vs LSU 21-22 W vs Arkansas 34-3 W vs Sout Mis 24-13 L @ Miss St 9-23 L vs Tennes 24-30 W @ Ole Miss 31-16 W vs Texas A&M 28-24 L @ Georgia 10-27 W vs Liberty 53-0 L @ Alabama 21-52 W vs Purdue 63-14 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2018.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: Auburn 63, Alabama State 9. A 54-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Auburn 21, Alabama 52. A 31-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Auburn beat Purdue 63-14 in the postseason.

"War Eagle is the greeting; the eagle flight before kickoff is the ritual."
— Auburn fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What it meant

2018 is a middle chapter for Auburn — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.