Auburn Tigers is the name given to Auburn University athletic teams. The university is a member of the Southeastern Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 18 varsity teams in 13 sports:
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The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The current head coach, Tommy Tuberville, has led the Tigers since 1999. Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium has a capacity of 87,451, ranking as the ninth-largest on-campus stadium in the NCAA.
The Tigers played the first football game in the Deep South in 1892, with the program's first bowl appearance coming the 1936 season in the sixth Bacardi Bowl played in Havana, Cuba. Former Auburn head coaches have included College Football Hall of Fame members John Heisman, Mike Donahue, Ralph "Shug" Jordan, and Pat Dye. As of 2007, AU Football has had 77 winning seasons, 34 bowl appearances, twenty-four 9+ win seasons, eleven undefeated seasons and ten conference championships. Auburn has played in the Southeastern Conference since its inception in 1933 and have won six SEC Conference Championships, and since the divisional realignment of the conference in 1992, six Western Division championships and three trips to the SEC Championship game.
The Auburn Tigers men's basketball program has often taken second place to the gridiron, thanks to Tigers Football immense popularity in the state and the SEC. But Tiger basketball has had flashes of brilliance under coaches Joel Eaves (.681), Sonny Smith (.529) and Cliff Ellis (.598).
In recent years, the Tigers have been making steady progress under the leadership of head coach Jeff Lebo. After a couple of rebuilding seasons, Lebo appears to have turned the corner and even swept arch-rival Alabama in the 2006-2007 season.
