Auburn will square off against Massachusetts at 2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn.
Consecutive Auburn coaches have won their first season-opening game with the Tigers. Hugh Freeze will try to continue that streak on Saturday. The most recent Auburn coach to lose in his first season-opening game was Doug Barfield, whose Tigers lost a road game to Arizona 31-19 on Sept. 11, 1976. The intervening six Auburn full-time coaches began their tenures with victories.
The Tigers have won their past five season-opening games.Games have been played by Auburn since it was most recently shut out, the second-longest streak in school history. Auburn’s most recent shutout loss came 49-0 to Alabama on Nov. 17, 2012. Auburn’s record scoring streak lasted 149 games, starting with a 55-16 victory over Richmond on Oct. 4, 1980, and ending with a 17-0 loss to Alabama on Nov. 26, 1992.
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