AUBURN, Ala. – The dates are in. It's time to mark your calendars, Auburn fans. The SEC released the 2019 schedule for every team in the conference Tuesday.
The Tigers open the season on Aug. 31 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas where they will face Oregon in the 2019 AdvoCare Classic. The two sides have met only once before in the 2011 BCS title game where Wes Byrum kicked a game-winning field goal as time expired to give Auburn its second national championship in program history.
The non-conference schedule also includes home games with Tulane and Kent State in September, and another home game against Samford in November.
Auburn will open SEC play on the road at Texas A&M on Sept. 21. Two weeks later, the Tigers travel to Florida for the first time since 2007. Byrum also kicked a game-winning field goal in that game to upset the No. 4 ranked Gators at the time. Auburn leads the all-time series, 43-38-2.
The trip to Gainesville is one of three road trips in the month of October, but Auburn will play in Jordan-Hare Stadium the entire month of November with consecutive games against Ole Miss, Georgia, Samford and Alabama. Last year, the Tigers beat Georgia and Alabama – both ranked No. 1 at the time – at home in the month of November to close out the season and clinch the SEC West.
Auburn will also have two open dates – one on Oct. 12 before a road game at Arkansas and the other on Nov. 9 before the Georgia game.
Aug. 31: vs. Oregon (in Dallas)
Sept. 7: vs. Tulane
Sept. 14: vs. Kent State
Sept. 21: at Texas A&M
Sept. 28: vs. Mississippi State
Oct. 5: at Florida
Oct. 19: at Arkansas
Oct. 26: at LSU
Nov. 2: vs. Ole Miss
Nov. 16: vs. Georgia
Nov. 23: vs. Samford
Nov. 30: vs. Alabama
Greg Ostendorf is a Senior Writer for AuburnTigers.com. Follow him on Twitter: @greg_ostendorf