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June 14, 2026
Sports Illustrated The Tigers may be a sleeper pick to start the season undefeated . . . With a pair of night kickoffs in week two and week three vs. Southern Miss and Florida, Auburn won't have another night kickoff at Jordan-Hare Stadium this season . . . The Tigers gained their eighth commitment since summer official visits began . . . Auburn football landed its 16th commitment . . . Saxon Roberts, Trevor Booten, and Justice de Jong are set to depart Auburn and search for new homes within the transfer portal . . . Carter's replacement seems to already be in the building. The Tigers recently secured a commitment from former Georgia State outfielder John Beverley, who hit .365 and stole 35 bases as a sophomore in 2026 . . . "We're going to bring a national championship back . . . "88,000 people drive down to Auburn to watch Iceland play Argentina in soccer. That would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Completely unthinkable . . . Ja'Kobe Tharp, the star of Auburn's men's track and field team, set a new world record in the 110-meter hurdles . . . To rebuild the front court for the 2026-27 season, Auburn added French center Narcisse Ngoy to add some rim protection. Ngoy won the Elite 2 League MVP after leading the league in rebounds and blocks. He also averaged 10.7 points per game . . . Last season, Auburn scored 51 points in the 100 fly, 28 in the 200 free, and 19 in the 200 IM. If Machuco had swum those converted times at those championships, he would have added another 44 points to Auburn's total . . . "47 states were represented in Jordan-Hare Stadium last night and 42 countries were represented . . . "Auburn made it really hard for me to want to leave . . . WATCH: The game, part of the Road to 26 Exhibition, will be a historic event for the Auburn community . . . That's part of the culture that Clinard, Chris Williams and the Auburn staff has continued to push and it has helped the Tigers become the hottest program in the country . . . Future Auburn Tiger Kauă Santos Carvalho nearly clipped the World Junior Record in the 50 breaststroke, touching in 27.08, just over a tenth of a second off . . . Auburn is becoming one of college golf's true power programs . . . Shafer, now 79 years old, was an Auburn assistant on its 1976 College World Series team before his administrative career took him to Georgia and Vanderbilt and eventually to the Ole Miss athletics director position in 1999 . . . Auburn's nonconference schedule now includes Wisconsin, West Virginia (Players Era), Kansas or UNLV (Players Era), Middle Tennessee, Arizona and Clemson . . . Auburn men's basketball team will travel to face Clemson at Littlejohn Coliseum on Tuesday, Dec. 1 . . . "I was just trying to hold in my tears . . . Ellen began his broadcasting career in Haley Center on campus. The university says he was part of the group that literally built the WEGL radio station . . . There was no question that Auburn was the best team in the country . . . The championship capped a dominant week for the Tigers. Auburn finished first in stroke play for the first time in program history before defeating Stanford 3-1-1 in the quarterfinals and sweeping defending national champion Oklahoma State 5-0 in the semifinals . . . |
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