1976 Auburn Tigers football team

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1976 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 10 Georgia $ 5 1 0 10 2 0
No. 11 Alabama 5 2 0 9 3 0
No. 20 Mississippi State 4 2 0 9 2 0
Florida 4 2 0 8 4 0
No. 18 Kentucky 4 2 0 8 4 0
LSU 3 3 0 6 4 1
Auburn 3 3 0 4 7 0
Ole Miss 3 4 0 5 6 0
Tennessee 2 4 0 6 5 0
Vanderbilt 0 6 0 2 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • Mississippi State later forfeited all 1976 wins due to NCAA violations.
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1976 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. At the end of the 1975 season, Ralph "Shug" Jordan retired after 25 years as head coach of the Auburn Tigers. Doug Barfield, Jordan’s offensive coordinator, took over as head coach starting in 1976. He coached the Tigers to a 3–8 record his first season, winning just 2 of 6 conference games.[1] However, Mississippi State was forced to forfeit their game that year, so Auburn's record officially improved to 4–7 (3–3).[2]

Neil O'Donoghue (PK) received All-American honors and [2] for the 1976 season, yet there were no players named to the All-SEC first team this year.

Schedule

September 11, 1976at Arizona*

L 19–3152,206 September 18, 1976Baylor*

L 14–1550,000 September 25, 1976vs. Tennessee

W 38–2850,000 October 2, 1976vs. No. 16 Mississippi

W 10–040,500 October 9, 1976at Memphis State*

L 27–2848,561 October 16, 1976Georgia Tech*

L 10–2863,786 October 23, 1976Florida State*

W 31–1958,500 October 30, 1976at No. 12 Florida

L 19–2465,129 November 6, 1976Mississippi State

W 19–28 (vacated)37,000 November 13, 1976No. 7 Georgia

L 0–2863,912 November 27, 1976vs. No. 18 Alabama

L 7–3870,303

Template:CFB Schedule End [2]

References

  1. ^ 2011 Auburn Tigers Football Media Guide, Auburn University Athletic Department, Auburn, Alabama, pp. 182–4 (2011). Retrieved August 19, 2011
  2. ^ a b c 2005 Auburn Tigers Football Media Guide, Auburn University Athletic Department, Auburn, Alabama, pp. 142–143,178 (2005). Retrieved August 19, 2011