The 2017 season's largest margin: Auburn 49, Mississippi State 10. A 39-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2017 — The Top-10 Year
Auburn finished 2017 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Jarrett StidhamQB3,158 passing yards
- Kerryon JohnsonRB1,391 rushing yards
- Kam MartinRB453 rushing yards
- Eli StoveWR315 rushing yards
- Ryan DavisWR815 receiving yards
- Darius SlaytonWR643 receiving yards
- Will HastingsWR525 receiving yards
- Deshaun DavisLB77 tackles
- Tray Matthews?57 tackles
- Darrell WilliamsLB55 tackles
- Jeff HollandOLB9 sacks
- Marlon DavidsonDE3 sacks
- Tre' WilliamsLB2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2017.
The season's deepest loss: Auburn 7, Georgia 28. A 21-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Auburn fell to UCF 27-34 in the postseason.
"War Eagle is the greeting; the eagle flight before kickoff is the ritual."
2017 is a middle chapter for Auburn — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.