1959 Auburn Tigers football team

1959 Southeastern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1959 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1959 NCAA University Division 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[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Source
September 26	at Tennessee	No. 3	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, Tennessee	L 0–3
October 3	Hardin–Simmons*	No. 17	Cliff Hare Stadium Auburn, Alabama	W 35–12
October 10	Kentucky	No. 14	Cliff Hare Stadium Auburn, Alabama	W 33–0
October 17	at No. 4 Georgia Tech	No. 11	Grant Field Atlanta	W 7–6
October 23	at Miami (FL)*	No. 7	Miami Orange Bowl Miami	W 21–6
October 31	Florida	No. 8	Cliff Hare Stadium Auburn, Alabama (rivalry)	W 6–0
November 7	Mississippi State	No. 8	Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama	W 31–0
November 14	at No. 12 Georgia	No. 8	Sanford Stadium Athens, Georgia (Deep South's Oldest Rivalry)	L 13–14
November 21	Mississippi Southern*	No. 12	Cliff Hare Stadium Auburn, Alabama	W 28–7	^[1]
November 28	vs. No. 19 Alabama	No. 11	Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama (Iron Bowl)	L 0–10
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ "Auburn wallops Southern, 28–7". The Montgomery Advertiser. November 22, 1959. Retrieved March 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ 2009 Auburn Football Media Guide (PDF). Auburn, Alabama: Auburn Media Relations Office. 2009. p. 188.
^ "1959–1960 Auburn University Football Schedule". Auburn University Athletics.^{[permanent dead link]}

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1959 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 5 Georgia $	7	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
No. 3 LSU	5	–	1	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
No. 2 Ole Miss	5	–	1	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
No. 10 Alabama	4	–	1	–	2	7	–	2	–	2
Auburn	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Vanderbilt	3	–	2	–	2	5	–	3	–	2
Georgia Tech	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Tennessee	3	–	4	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
No. 19 Florida	2	–	4	–	0	5	–	4	–	1
Kentucky	1	–	6	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Tulane	0	–	5	–	1	3	–	6	–	1
Mississippi State	0	–	7	–	0	2	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll