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Teams	Alabama Crimson Tide Alabama Crimson Tide football \|TeamName = Alabama football \|Image = Alabama Crimson Tide Logo.svg \|ImageSize = 110 \|Helmet = Alabama Football.png \|ImageSize2 = 150 \|CurrentSeason = 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide football team... Auburn Tigers Auburn Tigers football Only Mohamed Amin Abughadir set the record with 1,890 yards in 1 season. He was the QB for Auburn in 1998.The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the...
Originated	February 22, 1893
	76
Series	Alabama leads 41–34–1
First Game	Auburn 32, Alabama 22 February 22, 1893
Largest Victory	Alabama 55, Auburn 0 1948
Highest Scoring Game	Auburn 49, Alabama 26 November 29, 1969
Lowest Scoring Game	Alabama 3, Auburn 0 November 26, 1960
Most Recent Game	Alabama 42, Auburn 14 November 26, 2011
Alabama's Longest Streak	Nine Years (1973–1981)
Auburn's Longest Streak	Six Years (2002–2007)
Current Streak	Alabama 1 (2011)

The Iron Bowl is an American college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

rivalry

College rivalry

Pairs of schools, colleges and universities, especially when they are close to each other either geographically or in their areas of specialization, often establish a college rivalry with each other over the years. This rivalry can extend to both academics and athletics, the latter being typically...

game played annually by the Alabama Crimson Tide football

Alabama Crimson Tide football

team of the University of Alabama

University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....

and the Auburn Tigers football

Auburn Tigers football

Only Mohamed Amin Abughadir set the record with 1,890 yards in 1 season. He was the QB for Auburn in 1998.The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the...

team of Auburn University

Auburn University

Auburn University is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts...

. The series is considered one of the best and most hard-fought rivalries in all of sports. As the rivalry was mainly played in Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

for many years, the name of the Iron Bowl comes from Birmingham's historic role in the steel industry. Alabama leads the series with an overall record of 41–34–1.

The games are played at Jordan–Hare Stadium in Auburn

Auburn, Alabama

Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2010 population of 53,380. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area...

every odd-numbered year, and in Bryant–Denny Stadium at Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama . Located on the Black Warrior River, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama, with a population of 90,468 in 2010...

every even-numbered year. For much of the 20th century the game was played every year at Legion Field

Legion Field

Legion Field is a large stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, primarily designed to be used as a venue for American football, but is occasionally used for other large outdoor events. The stadium is named in honor of the American Legion, a U.S. organization of military veterans. At its peak...

in Birmingham. Alabama has a 32–15 record in games played at Legion Field, while Auburn has a 7–4 record in games played at Jordan–Hare Stadium and a 7–1 record in games played in Tuscaloosa (5–1 at Bryant–Denny Stadium). The game is traditionally played on Thanksgiving Day weekend. In 1993 both schools agreed to move the game up to the week before Thanksgiving to give themselves a bye for a potential SEC Championship Game

SEC Championship Game

The SEC Championship Game refers to the game determining the Southeastern Conference's football season champion. The championship game pits the SEC Western Division representative against the Eastern Division representative in a game held after the regular season has been completed. Thus far, nine...

berth, however in 2007 the conference voted to ban any team from having a bye in its schedule before the league championship game, returning the game to its traditional Thanksgiving weekend spot.

History

Auburn and Alabama played their first football game in Lakeview Park in Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

, on February 22, 1893. Auburn (then named the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama

Auburn University

) won 32–22, before an estimated crowd of 5,000. As if a signal of the future, disagreement between the schools began immediately as Alabama considered the game to be the final matchup of the 1892 season and Auburn recorded it as the first of 1893.

Tensions further built when, after both 1906 and 1907 contests, Auburn head coach Mike Donahue

Mike Donahue

Michael Joseph "Iron Mike" Donahue was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, soccer, and golf, and a college athletics administrator...

threatened to cancel the series if Alabama head coach "Doc" Pollard

J. W. H. Pollard

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continued employing his elaborate formations and shifts. The series was indeed suspended after the 1907 game when the schools could not come to agreement over the amount of expenses to be paid players, as well as from where officials for the game should be obtained.

In 1947 the Alabama House of Representatives passed a resolution encouraging the schools to "make possible the inauguration of a full athletic program between the two schools". The schools were disinclined to resume the series despite the passage of the resolution, since it did not have the effect of law. However, the Alabama congress threatened to withhold state funding from the schools unless they DID resume the rivalry. With that threat in mind, Ralph B. Draughon, the president of Auburn (then named the Alabama Polytechnic Institute

Auburn University

), and Alabama president John Gallalee decided during the winter and spring of 1948 to end the disagreement and renew the series. The games would be played in Birmingham because it had the largest stadium in the state, 44,000-seat Legion Field

Legion Field

, and the tickets would be split evenly between the two schools. Alabama won the first game when the series renewed 55–0, the most lopsided victory of the series.

By 1980 the series had come to be called the Iron Bowl, due to Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

's prominence as a center of iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...

and steel

Steel

Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...

production. Throughout the 1980s, Auburn made additions to Jordan–Hare Stadium, and in 1987 it eclipsed Legion Field

Legion Field

in size. Auburn desired to make the Iron Bowl a "home-and-home" series, and the schools reached an agreement where Auburn could play their home games for the Iron Bowl in Auburn starting in 1989 (except for the 1991 game, which was played at Legion Field

Legion Field

), and Alabama would have a "home" ticket allocation for games in Legion Field

Legion Field

. On December 2, 1989, Alabama came to Auburn's Jordan–Hare Stadium for the first time in the history of the rivalry. A sellout crowd would witness Auburn win its first true "home" game of the series, 30–20 over an Alabama team that entered the game unbeaten and ranked #2 in the country.

Alabama continued to hold their home game at Legion Field. In 1998, Alabama expanded Bryant–Denny Stadium to a capacity of 83,818, exceeding Legion Field by a few hundred. Alabama moved their home games in the series to Bryant-Denny Stadium in 2000. A new attendance record for the Iron Bowl was set in 2006 as the latest expansion to Bryant–Denny Stadium increased its capacity to 92,138. The record was reset again in 2010, after another expansion to Alabama's Bryant–Denny Stadium, when a crowd of 101,821 witnessed an Auburn victory with a score of 28–27.

In 2009 and 2010 CBS Sports

CBS Sports

CBS Sports is a division of CBS Broadcasting which airs sporting events on the American television network. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street.CBS...

arranged an agreement between the two universities to have the game played in an exclusive time slot on the Friday following Thanksgiving. The 2009 game was the sixth Iron Bowl to be played on a Friday and the first in 21 years. CBS did not attempt to renew the agreement after 2010 due to criticism from within the state from both fan bases, returning the game to its traditional Saturday date.

Foy-ODK Sportsmanship Award

The trophy

Trophy

A trophy is a reward for a specific achievement, and serves as recognition or evidence of merit. Trophies are most often awarded for sporting events, from youth sports to professional level athletics...

given to the winner of the game is the Foy-ODK Sportsmanship Award. It is named after James E. Foy, an Alabama graduate and former Auburn dean of students and Omicron Delta Kappa

Omicron Delta Kappa

Omicron Delta Kappa, or ΟΔΚ, also known as The Circle, or more commonly ODK, is a national leadership honor society. It was founded December 3, 1914, at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, by 15 student and faculty leaders. Chapters, known as Circles, are located on over 300...

Honor Society – which was established on both campuses during the 1920s. The Foy Trophy is presented at halftime of the Auburn–Alabama basketball game later in the same academic year at the winner's coliseum. After the trophy presentation, the SGA President of the losing school must recite his or her adversary's fight song.

Notable games

1964: This was the first Iron Bowl to be broadcast nationally on television on November 26, 1964. Quarterback Joe Namath

Joe Namath

Joseph William "Joe" Namath , nicknamed "Broadway Joe" or "Joe Willie", is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and his assistant, Howard Schnellenberger, from 1962–1964, and professional football in the...

led Alabama to a 21–14 victory over Auburn, and after a Notre Dame loss two days later, the Crimson Tide were crowned national champions in both the AP and UPI polls.

1967: The Run in the Mud – On a night at Legion Field

Legion Field

where thunderstorms caused the game to constantly be stopped to clear raincoats and other wet weather accessories from the field, Alabama quarterback Kenny Stabler ran for a 47–yard touchdown to give Bama a 7–3 win.

1971: Both teams were playing for a shot at the national championship against Nebraska

Nebraska Cornhuskers football

The Nebraska Cornhuskers represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in college football. The program has established itself as a traditional powerhouse, and has the fourth-most all-time victories of any NCAA Division I-A team. Nebraska is one of only six football programs in NCAA Division I-A...

in the Orange Bowl. 10–0 Alabama (#4 AP

AP Poll

The Associated Press College Poll refers to weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling sportswriters across the nation...

) routed 9–0 Auburn (#5 AP), and eventual Heisman

Heisman Trophy

The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...

winner Pat Sullivan

Pat Sullivan (American football)

Patrick Joseph Sullivan is an American football coach and former player. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1971 playing quarterback for the Auburn Tigers and then played in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins. Sullivan is currently the head coach at Samford University...

, 31–7.

1972: Punt Bama Punt
Punt Bama Punt
Punt Bama Punt is the nickname given to one of the most famous games of the college football rivalry between the Auburn Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide known as the Iron Bowl.The game was played on December 2, 1972 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama...

– Trailing 16–3 with six minutes left, underdog Auburn blocked two Alabama punts—returning both for touchdowns—to win the game 17–16, handing Alabama its first loss of the year and ending their national championship hopes.

1981: 315 – Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

Bear Bryant

Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships...

earned his 315th career victory, passing Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg was an American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football...

to become the all-time winningest Division I-A coach (at the time) in a 28–17 win over Auburn.

1982: Bo Over the Top – Auburn drove the length of the field and scored with two minutes remaining when running back Bo Jackson

Bo Jackson

Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson is a former American baseball and football player. He was the first athlete to be named an All-Star in two major American sports, and also won the Heisman Trophy in 1985....

lept over the top of the pile from the one yard line. Auburn won the game 23–22. The victory ended Alabama's 9-game win streak over Auburn, the longest in series history. It would also be coach Bear Bryant's last Iron Bowl.

1984: Wrong Way Bo – Late in the fourth quarter Auburn had a 4th-and-goal from the one yard line, trailing by two points. Coach Pat Dye

Pat Dye

Patrick Fain Dye is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at East Carolina University , the University of Wyoming , and Auburn University compiling a career college football record of 153–62–5...

decided to go for the touchdown instead of a field goal. Despite the success two years prior, the ball went to Brent Fullwood

Brent Fullwood

Brent Lanard Fullwood , from St. Cloud High School, is a former professional American football player who was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 1st round of the 1987 NFL Draft...

instead of Bo Jackson

Bo Jackson

. Jackson ran the wrong direction on the block, causing Fullwood to be forced out of bounds by an Alabama defender, Rory Turner, securing a 17–15 victory for Alabama and knocking Auburn out of the Sugar Bowl

Sugar Bowl

The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Sugar Bowl has been played annually since January 1, 1935, and celebrated its 75th anniversary on January 2, 2009...

.

1985: The Kick – At their own 12-yard line and trailing by one point with 37 seconds remaining, Alabama quarterback Mike Shula

Mike Shula

Mike Shula is an American football quarterback coach for the Carolina Panthers, an NFL team. Between 2003 and 2006, he was the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football program.- Early life :...

led the offense down to the Auburn 35 yard line. Van Tiffin

Van Tiffin

Van Tiffin is a former American football placekicker.- College career :Tiffin was the Alabama Crimson Tide's primary placekicker from 1983-1986. He holds the school record for longest converted field goal, with a successful 57-yard attempt against Texas A&M in 1985...

hit a 52-yard field goal

Field goal (football)

A field goal in American football and Canadian football is a goal that may be scored during general play . Field goals may be scored by a placekick or the now practically extinct drop kick.The drop kick fell out of favor in 1934 when the shape of the ball was changed...

with no time remaining to lift Alabama to a 25–23 victory.

1986: Reverse to Victory – Auburn has the ball on the Alabama seven, trailing 17–14 with 32 seconds remaining in the game. The called play is a reverse

Reverse (American football)

A reverse is a relatively common trick play in American football that involves one or more abrupt changes in the lateral flow of a rushing play.-Variations:...

to wide receiver Lawyer Tillman

Lawyer Tillman

Lawyer Tillman was a Wide Receiver in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns and Carolina Panthers. Tillman attended Auburn University. One of his more notable plays was an end around revearse to beat rival Alabama in the 1986 Iron Bowl. He has Three children....

, but Coach Dye did not like the defensive alignment and ran down the sideline and shouted at Tillman to call time out. (At the time, NCAA rules only allowed players on the field to call time outs.) The Alabama players saw Dye and assumed a time-out was to be called, but Tillman does hear his coach and Auburn runs the play. Against the confused Alabama defense, Tillman took the reverse for a touchdown, and a 21–17 Auburn win.

1989: The First Time Ever – Auburn (#11 AP) defeated the undefeated Crimson Tide (#2 AP) 30–20 in the first ever Iron Bowl played on campus in Auburn at Jordan–Hare Stadium. The Auburn victory denied Alabama of the outright SEC Championship and gave the Tigers a share of the title, but Alabama was still awarded a bid to the Sugar Bowl despite the upset.

1993: Radio Championship – Unbeaten Auburn (#6 AP) came from behind to defeat 8–1–1 Alabama (#11 AP) in the second Iron Bowl ever played in Auburn, 22–14. The game was not televised due to Auburn's probation, but was shown on closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors....

before 47,421 fans in Tuscaloosa's Bryant–Denny Stadium.

1994: 10–0 Alabama (#3 AP) defeated 9–0–1 Auburn (#6 AP) 21–14 in a matchup of undefeated teams, ending Auburn's 21–game unbeaten streak.

1996: In the second-to-last Iron Bowl played at Legion Field, Alabama came from behind to beat Auburn 24–23 in the final minutes of the game. It was also the final Iron Bowl for Alabama coach Gene Stallings, finishing with a respectable career coaching record in the rivalry's history at 5–2.

1999: Alabama gets their first victory in Auburn, 28–17.

2000: The Iron Bowl returned to Tuscaloosa for the first time in 99 years. Amidst miserable weather conditions of cold and sleet, Auburn clinched a spot in the SEC Championship game

2000 SEC Championship Game

The 2000 SEC Championship Game was won by the Florida Gators 28-6 over the Auburn Tigers. The game was played in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia on December 2, 2000 and was televised to a national audience on ABC.-External links:***-References:...

with a 9–0 shutout led by kicker Damon Duval. It was also the final game for Alabama head coach Mike DuBose

Mike DuBose

Mike DuBose is a former University of Alabama football player and the current defensive line coach for the Memphis Tigers. DuBose came to Memphis from Millsaps College, where he was the Majors' head coach from 2006 to 2009. He resurrected the school's struggling football program by winning...

.

2004: Alabama came into the game unranked but led Auburn 6-0 during the first half, relying on two field goals kicked by Brian Bostick. The No. 2-ranked Tigers came back strong in the second half, starting with the combination of quarterback Jason Campbell

Jason Campbell

Jason Campbell is an American football quarterback for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft...

and running back Carnell "Cadillac" Williams

Carnell Williams

Carnell Lamar "Cadillac" Williams is an American football running back for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft...

scoring a touchdown. Auburn scored a total of 21 points during the second half. The Crimson Tide's quarterback Spencer Pennington connected with D. J. Hall

D. J. Hall

Martinez D. Hall is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent of the Arena Football League. He was signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Alabama.-Early years:Hall attended Choctawhatchee High School in Ft. Walton...

to score a touchdown in the final minutes of the game. Auburn won 21-13, and moved on to win the SEC Championship game.

2005: Sacked! - In Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn sets a new school record by sacking Alabama quarterback Brodie Croyle 11 times. Auburn records five sacks while holding Alabama to minus-17 yards of offense in the first quarter alone. Seven different Auburn players recorded at least half a sack in the game, led by 3.5 sacks from Stanley McClover. Auburn wins 28–18.

2007: Six In-a-Row – Auburn wins a sixth straight Iron Bowl over Alabama 17-10. This is currently the longest winning streak in the rivalry for Auburn. Brandon Cox becomes only the second starting quarterback for the Tigers, alongside Jason Campbell, to have never lost against the Crimson Tide.

2008: The Beat Down in T-town – Alabama ends Auburn's six game win streak in the series with a 36–0 victory in Tommy Tuberville

Tommy Tuberville

Thomas Hawley Tuberville is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Texas Tech University, a position he has held since the 2010 season...

's last game as Auburn's head coach. It also marked the first series victory for Alabama in Tuscaloosa in over three decades.

2009: The Drive – Trailing 21–20 with 8:27 remaining, unbeaten Alabama (#2 AP) marched down the field on a 15-play, 79 yard drive capped by a 3 yard touchdown pass from Greg McElroy

Greg McElroy

Gregory McElroy, Jr. is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jets in the seventh round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Alabama....

to Roy Upchurch. Alabama took the lead 26–21 with 1:27 remaining and held on for the win. Alabama would go on to win both the SEC Championship

2009 SEC Championship Game

The 2009 SEC Championship Game was played on December 5, 2009, in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, to determine the 2009 football champion of the Southeastern Conference . The game featured the Florida Gators and the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Crimson Tide was the designated "home team"; this...

and the BCS National Championship

2010 BCS National Championship Game

The 2010 Citi BCS National Championship Game was the finale of the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and was played between the Texas Longhorns and the Alabama Crimson Tide. It was hosted by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California,...

.

2010: The Comeback – Facing a 24 point deficit, Cam Newton

Cam Newton

Cameron Lemark Newton is a former American football safety. He played college football at Furman University, then played two seasons in the NFL, one each for the Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers. He was cut from the Panthers before the 2007 season...

rallies #2 Auburn to a 28-27 victory and snapping Alabama's 20-game home win streak dating back to Nov. 17, 2007. Cam Newton

Cam Newton

went on to win the Heisman Trophy

Heisman Trophy

. Auburn would go on to win both the SEC Championship

2010 SEC Championship Game

The 2010 SEC Championship Game was played on December 4, 2010, in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, to determine the 2010 football champion of the Southeastern Conference . The game featured the Auburn Tigers, the champion of the West Division, and the South Carolina Gamecocks, champion of the...

and the BCS National Championship

2011 BCS National Championship Game

The 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game was the final college football game to determine the national champion of the 2010 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision season. The finale of the 2010-2011 Bowl Championship Series was played at the University of Phoenix Stadium, the host...

.

2011: Never Again - Coming into the game ranked #2 in the nation, Alabama sought redemption after the previous year's one-point loss against the Tigers. Alabama dominated while scoring 42 points, while shutting out the Auburn offense. Auburn's 14 points come from a fumble recovery near the goaline and a 83-yard kickoff return by Onterio McCalebb. Alabama's Trent Richardson

Trent Richardson

Trent Richardson is an American football running back. He is in his junior year at the University of Alabama. As a true freshman with the Alabama Crimson Tide in 2009 he helped lead the Tide to an undefeated 14-0 season including a victory in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.-High school...

ran for a career-high 203 yards in the win to keep his Heisman Trophy

Heisman Trophy

hopes alive.

Game results

Since 1893, the Crimson Tide and Tigers have played 76 times. Alabama leads the all-time series, with 41 wins to Auburn's 34, with one tie. The game has been played in four cities: Auburn

Auburn, Alabama

Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2010 population of 53,380. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area...

, Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

, Montgomery

Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city...

, and Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama . Located on the Black Warrior River, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama, with a population of 90,468 in 2010...

. Alabama leads the series in Birmingham (34–18–1). Auburn leads the series in Tuscaloosa (7–1) and Auburn (7–4). The series is tied in Montgomery (2–2). For the first time in history the previous two winners of the Iron Bowl went on to win the BCS National Championship, Alabama

2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

The 2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 77th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference and its 18th within the SEC Western Division...

in 2009 and Auburn

2010 Auburn Tigers football team

The 2010 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 2010–2011 college football season. The Tigers, led by second year head coach Gene Chizik were members of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference and played their home games at Jordan-Hare Stadium...

in 2010. This also marked the first time that two different teams from the same state won consecutive BCS National Championship games.

Auburn victories are colored ██ navy blue. Alabama victories are colored ██ crimson. Ties are white.

#	Date	Location	Winner	Score	Series
1	February 22, 1893	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	32–22	AU 1–0–0
2	November 30, 1893	Montgomery, AL	Auburn	40–16	AU 2–0–0
3	November 29, 1894	Montgomery, AL	Alabama	18–0	AU 2–1–0
4	November 23, 1895	Tuscaloosa, AL	Auburn	48–0	AU 3–1–0
5	November 17, 1900	Montgomery, AL	Auburn	53–5	AU 4–1–0
6	November 15, 1901	Tuscaloosa, AL	Auburn	17–0	AU 5–1–0
7	October 18, 1902	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	23–0	AU 6–1–0
8	October 23, 1903	Montgomery, AL	Alabama	18–6	AU 6–2–0
9	November 12, 1904	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	29–5	AU 7–2–0
10	November 18, 1905	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	30–0	AU 7–3–0
11	November 17, 1906	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	10–0	AU 7–4–0
12	November 16, 1907	Birmingham, AL	Tie	6–6	AU 7–4–1
13	December 4, 1948	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	55–0	AU 7–5–1
14	December 3, 1949	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	14–13	AU 8–5–1
15	December 2, 1950	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	34–0	AU 8–6–1
16	December 2, 1951	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	25–7	AU 8–7–1
17	November 29, 1952	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	21–0	Tie 8–8–1
18	November 28, 1953	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	10–7	AL 9–8–1
19	November 27, 1954	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	8–0	Tie 9–9–1
20	November 26, 1955	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	26–0	AU 10–9–1
21	December 1, 1956	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	34–7	AU 11–9–1
22	November 30, 1957	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	40–0	AU 12–9–1
23	November 29, 1958	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	14–8	AU 13–9–1
24	November 28, 1959	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	10–0	AU 13–10–1
25	November 26, 1960	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	3–0	AU 13–11–1
26	December 2, 1961	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	34–0	AU 13–12–1
27	December 1, 1962	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	38–0	AU 13–13–1
28	November 30, 1963	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	10–8	AU 14–13–1
29	November 26, 1964	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	21–14	Tie 14–14–1
30	November 27, 1965	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	30–3	AL 15–14–1
31	December 3, 1966	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	31–0	AL 16–14–1
32	December 2, 1967	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	7–3	AL 17–14–1
33	November 30, 1968	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	24–16	AL 18–14–1
34	November 29, 1969	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	49–26	AL 18–15–1
35	November 28, 1970	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	33–28	AL 18–16–1
36	November 27, 1971	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	31–7	AL 19–16–1
37	December 2, 1972	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	17–16	AL 19–17–1
38	December 1, 1973	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	35–0	AL 20–17–1

#	Date	Location	Winner	Score	Series
39	November 29, 1974	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	17–13	AL 21–17–1
40	November 29, 1975	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	28–0	AL 22–17–1
41	November 27, 1976	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	38–7	AL 23–17–1
42	November 26, 1977	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	48–21	AL 24–17–1
43	December 2, 1978	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	34–16	AL 25–17–1
44	December 1, 1979	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	25–18	AL 26–17–1
45	November 29, 1980	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	34–18	AL 27–17–1
46	November 28, 1981	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	28–17	AL 28–17–1
47	November 27, 1982	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	23–22	AL 28–18–1
48	December 3, 1983	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	23–20	AL 28–19–1
49	December 1, 1984	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	17–15	AL 29–19–1
50	November 30, 1985	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	25–23	AL 30–19–1
51	November 29, 1986	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	21–17	AL 30–20–1
52	November 27, 1987	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	10–0	AL 30–21–1
53	November 25, 1988	Birmingham, AL	Auburn	15–10	AL 30–22–1
54	December 2, 1989	Auburn, AL	Auburn	30–20	AL 30–23–1
55	December 1, 1990	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	16–7	AL 31–23–1
56	November 30, 1991	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	13–6	AL 32–23–1
57	November 26, 1992	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	17–0	AL 33–23–1
58	November 20, 1993	Auburn, AL	Auburn	22–14	AL 33–24–1
59	November 19, 1994	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	21–14	AL 34–24–1
60	November 18, 1995	Auburn AL	Auburn	31–27	AL 34–25–1
61	November 23, 1996	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	24–23	AL 35–25–1
62	November 22, 1997	Auburn, AL	Auburn	18–17	AL 35–26–1
63	November 21, 1998	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	31–17	AL 36–26–1
64	November 20, 1999	Auburn, AL	Alabama	28–17	AL 37–26–1
65	November 18, 2000	Tuscaloosa, AL	Auburn	9–0	AL 37–27–1
66	November 17, 2001	Auburn, AL	Alabama	31–7	AL 38–27–1
67	November 23, 2002	Tuscaloosa, AL	Auburn	17–7	AL 38–28–1
68	November 22, 2003	Auburn, AL	Auburn	28–23	AL 38–29–1
69	November 20, 2004	Tuscaloosa, AL	Auburn	21–13	AL 38–30–1
70	November 19, 2005	Auburn, AL	Auburn	28–18	AL 38–31–1
71	November 18, 2006	Tuscaloosa, AL	Auburn	22–15	AL 38–32–1
72	November 24, 2007	Auburn, AL	Auburn	17–10	AL 38–33–1
73	November 29, 2008	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	36–0	AL 39–33–1
74	November 27, 2009	Auburn, AL	Alabama	26–21	AL 40–33–1
75	November 26, 2010	Tuscaloosa, AL	Auburn	28–27	AL 40–34–1
76	November 26, 2011	Auburn, AL	Alabama	42–14	AL 41–34–1

Series record sources: 2011 Alabama Football Media Guide, 2011 Auburn Football Media Guide, and College Football Data Warehouse.

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History

Foy-ODK Sportsmanship Award

Notable games

Game results

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