Auburn·SEC

2020 — The 2020 Season

Auburn's 2020 season (6-5) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 6-5
Final result Bowl season Lost the Citrus Bowl
AP final #22 post-bowls
SP+ +10.0 last-week
Era The Malzahn Era
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Kentucky 29-13 L @ Georgia 6-27 W vs Arkansas 30-28 L @ S Caro 22-30 W @ Ole Miss 35-28 W vs LSU 48-11 W vs Tennes 30-17 L @ Alabama 13-42 L vs Texas A&M 20-31 W @ Miss St 24-10 L @ Northw 19-35 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2020.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2020 season's largest margin: Auburn 48, LSU 11. A 37-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Auburn 13, Alabama 42. A 29-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Auburn fell to Northwestern 19-35 in the postseason.

"War Eagle is the greeting; the eagle flight before kickoff is the ritual."
— Auburn fanbase voice · 2020· synthesized
What it meant

2020 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.