Auburn·SEC

2021 — The Correction

2021 is a losing-side chapter for Auburn. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 6-7
Final result Losing season Lost the Birmingham Bowl
AP final #16 post-bowls
SP+ +6.8 last-week
Era The Harsin Interruption
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Akron 60-10 W vs Alab Sta 62-0 L @ Penn St 20-28 W vs Geor Sta 34-24 W @ LSU 24-19 L vs Georgia 10-34 W @ Arkansas 38-23 W vs Ole Miss 31-20 L @ Texas A&M 3-20 L vs Miss St 34-43 L @ S Caro 17-21 L vs Alabama 22-24 L vs Houston 13-17 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2021.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2021 season's largest margin: Auburn 62, Alabama State 0. A 62-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Auburn 10, Georgia 34. A 24-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Auburn fell to Houston 13-17 in the postseason.

"War Eagle is the greeting; the eagle flight before kickoff is the ritual."
— Auburn fanbase voice · 2021· synthesized
What it meant

2021 sits in Auburn's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.