Auburn football and challenging schedules are a perfect match for each other. That will not change as the Tigers get set to take on the 2023 slate.
Auburn will host Alabama and Georgia this season and will pay a visit to Texas A&M and LSU. Those four games alone would be considered a brutal draw for any team, but it seems to be the norm for Auburn.
How challenging is Auburn’s 2023 schedule? CBS Sports’ Barrett Sallee ranked each SEC team’s schedule and has declared Auburn’s slate to be the 5th toughest within the conference.
Sallee says that Auburn will undoubtedly play a tough schedule, but there are several games that make the 2023 slate manageable.
The Tigers’ schedule is always difficult with rivals Alabama and Georgia on the docket, and there’s nothing first-year coach Hugh Freeze can do about that. However, both of those games are at least at home. The Tigers draw Vanderbilt as their rotating cross-division game, and their Power Five nonconference game is at California. Those games don’t move the meter at all. This is a relatively manageable slate by Auburn’s wildly high scheduling standard.
According to Sallee’s rankings, Florida holds the SEC’s toughest schedule while Georgia will play the easiest schedule.
Auburn football’s 2023 schedule
| Sept. 2 | UMass |
| Sept. 9 | at Cal |
| Sept. 16 | Samford |
| Sept. 23 | at Texas A&M |
| Sept. 30 | Georgia |
| Oct. 14 | at LSU |
| Oct. 21 | Ole Miss |
| Oct. 28 | Mississippi State |
| Nov. 4 | at Vanderbilt |
| Nov. 11 | at Arkansas |
| Nov. 18 | New Mexico State |
| Nov. 25 | Alabama |
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