Auburn·SEC

2019 — The Top-10 Year

Auburn finished 2019 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.

Record 9-4
Final result Bowl season Lost the Outback Bowl
AP final #9 post-bowls
SP+ +12.4 last-week
Era The Malzahn Era
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Oregon 27-21 W vs Tulane 24-6 W vs Kent Sta 55-16 W @ Texas A&M 28-20 W vs Miss St 56-23 L @ Florida 13-24 W @ Arkansas 51-10 L @ LSU 20-23 W vs Ole Miss 20-14 L vs Georgia 14-21 W vs Samford 52-0 W vs Alabama 48-45 L vs Minnes 24-31 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2019.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2019 season's largest margin: Auburn 52, Samford 0. A 52-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Auburn 13, Florida 24. A 11-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Auburn fell to Minnesota 24-31 in the postseason.

"War Eagle is the greeting; the eagle flight before kickoff is the ritual."
— Auburn fanbase voice · 2019· synthesized
What it meant

2019 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.