1959 Auburn Tigers football team

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1959 Auburn Tigers football
Auburn Tigers logo (pre-1971).png
Conference Southeastern Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 15
Record7–3 (4–3 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadium Cliff Hare Stadium
Seasons
  1958
1960  
1959 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Georgia $ 7 0 010 1 0
No. 3 LSU 5 1 09 2 0
No. 2 Ole Miss # 5 1 010 1 0
No. 10 Alabama 4 1 27 2 2
Auburn 4 3 07 3 0
Vanderbilt 3 2 25 3 2
Georgia Tech 3 3 06 5 0
Tennessee 3 4 15 4 1
No. 19 Florida 2 4 05 4 1
Kentucky 1 6 04 6 0
Tulane 0 5 13 6 1
Mississippi State 0 7 02 7 0
  • $ Conference champion
  • # Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel, Sagarin national champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1959 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1959 college football season. It was the Tigers' 68th overall and 27th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Ralph Jordan, in his ninth year, and played their home games at Cliff Hare Stadium in Auburn and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished with a record of seven wins and three losses (7–3 overall, 4–3 in the SEC).

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at Tennessee No. 3L 0–340,500 [1]
October 3 Hardin–Simmons *No. 17W 35–1223,000 [2]
October 10 Kentucky No. 14
  • Cliff Hare Stadium
  • Auburn, AL
W 33–030,000 [3]
October 17at No. 4 Georgia Tech No. 11W 7–644,174 [4]
October 23at Miami (FL) *No. 7W 21–642,986 [5]
October 31 Florida Dagger-14-plain.pngNo. 8
  • Cliff Hare Stadium
  • Auburn, AL (rivalry)
W 6–035,000 [6]
November 7 Mississippi State No. 8W 31–038,000 [7]
November 14at No. 12 Georgia No. 8L 13–1450,000 [8]
November 21 Mississippi Southern *No. 12
  • Cliff Hare Stadium
  • Auburn, AL
W 28–720,300 [9]
November 28vs. No. 19 Alabama No. 11
L 0–1044,000 [10]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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