{"id":77305,"date":"2025-07-20T06:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77305\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:12:10","slug":"sunday-reflections-from-auburn-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77305\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday reflections from Auburn and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Auburn’s best teams fared against ranked teams<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Who you play has a lot to do with how you look.” That was one of the late Pat Dye’s favorite sayings during his 12-season tenure as Auburn’s head coach. That’s a take that has been proved to be true far more often than not.<\/p>\n

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Starting with Dye’s first SEC championship in 1983, here’s a look at the ranked teams faced by Auburn’s better teams and how they fared:<\/p>\n

1983: Beat No. 17 Florida State, No. 5 Florida, No. 7 Maryland, No. 4 Georgia, No. 19 Alabama and No. 9 Michigan. Lost to No. 3 Texas. Total: 6-1 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

1986: Beat No. 13 Mississippi State and No. 7 Alabama. Lost to unranked Florida and unranked Georgia. Total: 2-0 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

1987: Beat No. 10 Florida, No. 8 Georgia and No. 8 Alabama. Lost to No. 4 Florida State. Tied No. 11 Tennessee and No. 4 Syracuse. Total:\u00a0 3-1-2 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

1988: Beat No. 17 Georgia and No. 17 Alabama. Lost to No. 4 Florida State and unranked LSU. Total 2-2 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

1989: Beat No. 19 Florida, No. 3 Alabama and No. 21 Ohio State. Lost to No. 12 Tennessee and No. 14 Florida State. Total 3-2 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

1993: Beat No. 4 Florida and No. 11 Alabama. Total: 2-1 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

1994: Beat No. 1 Florida. Lost to No. 4 Alabama. Tied unranked Georgia. Total: 2-0 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

1997: Beat No. 10 LSU and No. 7 Georgia. Lost to unranked Mississippi State, No. 7 Florida and No. 3 Tennessee. Total: 2-2 against ranked teams<\/p>\n

2004: Beat No. 5 LSU, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 8 Georgia, No. 15 Tennessee and No. 9 Michigan. Total: 5-0 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

2006: Beat No. 6 LSU, No. 2 Florida and No. 22 Nebraska. Lost to unranked Arkansas and unranked Georgia. Total: 3-0 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

2010: Beat No. 12 South Carolina, No. 12 Arkansas, No. 6 LSU, No. 9 Alabama, No. 18 South Carolina and No. 2 Oregon. Total: 6-0 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

2013: Beat No. 24 Ole Miss, No. 7 Texas A&M, No. 25 Georgia, No. 1 Alabama, No. 5 Missouri. Lost to No. 6 LSU and No. 1 Florida State. Total: 5-2 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n

2017: Beat No. 24 Mississippi State, No. 1 Georgia and No. 1 Alabama. Lost to No. 3 Clemson, No. 6 Georgia, No. 10 Central Florida. Total: 3-3 against ranked teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Auburn’s best teams fared against ranked teams “Who you play has a lot to do with how…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-77305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114884086643069616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}