Welcome to part 3 of our ongoing series remembering The Streak. Today, we go back to Auburn’s last regular season challenge to an undefeated season.
Auburn entered with a perfect 10-0 record and a #2 ranking (though it was a tie with Oklahoma). The Tigers were fresh off their most impressive performance of the season, dominating 5th-ranked Georgia 24-6 in a game that wasn’t as close as the score indicated (Georgia’s only score came with just over 2 minutes to go in the game, long after the outcome had been decided). Most of Auburn’s wins to this point had been blowouts, or at least as close to blowouts as Tommy Tuberville could get.