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1983 Auburn Tigers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1983
team	Auburn Tigers
sport	football
image	Auburn Tigers logo.svg
image_size	125
conference	Southeastern Conference
short_conf	SEC
record	11–1
conf_record	6–0
CoachRank	3
APRank	3
head_coach	Pat Dye
hc_year	3rd
off_coach	Jack Crowe
oc_year	2nd
off_scheme	Wishbone
def_coach	Frank Orgel
dc_year	3rd
def_scheme	[5–2](5-2-defense)
stadium	Jordan–Hare Stadium
champion	National champion (Billingsley, CFRA, The New York Times, ARGH)
Co-national champion (Rothman, Sagarin)
SEC champion
Sugar Bowl champion
bowl	[Sugar Bowl](1984-sugar-bowl)
bowl_result	W 9–7 vs [Michigan](1983-michigan-wolverines-football-team)

Co-national champion (Rothman, Sagarin) SEC champion Sugar Bowl champion The 1983 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. Coached by Pat Dye, the team finished the season with an 11–1 record and won their first Southeastern Conference (SEC) title since 1957. The team was named national champion by NCAA-designated major selectors of Billingsley, College Football Researchers Association, The New York Times, and ARGH, while named co-national champion by both Rothman and Sagarin.

The squad featured several star players who went on to long professional careers including Bo Jackson, Randy Campbell, Tommie Agee, Lionel James, Donnie Humphrey, Steve Wallace and Al Del Greco. Prior to the season, Dye became the first coach in the SEC to require players to take blood and urine tests for drugs. Also prior to the season, fullback Greg Pratt collapsed after making his required time in running tests and died a short time later.

The team capped an 11–1 season, with a 9–7 victory handing 2-loss #8 Michigan its third loss in the Sugar Bowl. Despite having lost to Texas by 13 points at home the Tigers ended ranked third in the final AP and the UPI Coaches' poll ahead of the 1-loss Longhorns as Miami jumped from 5th from the AP and 4th from the UPI Coaches' poll to claim the AP/UPI Coaches' National Championship award. Auburn had played the toughest schedule in the nation, including nine bowl teams, eight of which were ranked in the top 20 (five in the top ten), and two teams Auburn faced would compete against each other in the 1983 Florida Citrus Bowl (Tennessee won the game against Maryland 30–23).

Schedule

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Rankings

Game summaries

Southern Miss

Texas

Florida State

Florida

At Georgia

Vs. Alabama

Sophomore Bo Jackson ran for 256 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Tigers won the SEC title outright. His long touchdown runs – 69 yards and 71 yards, respectively – bookended the day's scoring.

Vs. Michigan (Sugar Bowl)

Main article: 1984 Sugar Bowl

Roster

Pat Dye
Larry Blakeney (assistant)
Neil Callaway (offensive line)
Bud Casey (assistant)
Jack Crowe (offensive coordinator)
James Daniel (offensive line)
Wayne Hall (assistant)
Frank Orgel (assistant)
Bobby Wallace (defensive backs)
Joe Whitt (assistant)
Frank Young (assistant)

References

"ARGH Power Ratings History".
(August 2018). "2018 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records". National Collegiate Athletic Association.
(1983-08-22). "Auburn Testing Players for Drugs". New York Times.
Barnhart, Tony. "Auburn Wins 1984 Sugar Bowl, but National Championship Still Eludes Tigers". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/CBS.
(September 11, 1983). "Auburn rips Southern Miss". The Selma Times-Journal.
(September 18, 1983). "Longhorns power past Tigers 20–7". The Clarion-Ledger.
(September 11, 1983). "Auburn rebounds with win". The Montgomery Advertiser.
(October 2, 1983). "Outnumbered FSU beaten by Auburn". St. Petersburg Times.
(October 9, 1983). "No. 7 Auburn runs over outmanned UK". The Park City Daily News.
(October 16, 1983). "AU gets scare against Tech". The Dothan Eagle.
(October 23, 1983). "Tigers bag Miss State". The Selma Times-Journal.
(October 30, 1983). "Auburn wins 28–21 thriller, but Florida disputes it". The Atlanta Journal & Constitution.
(November 6, 1983). "No. 3 Auburn dumps Maryland". The Standard-Star.
(November 13, 1983). "Sugar bid sweet for AU". The Montgomery Advertiser.
(December 4, 1983). "Bo goes, AU wins 23–20". The Montgomery Advertiser.
(January 3, 1984). "Auburn Tigers slip past Wolverines". The Daily Advertiser.
Joe Lapointe. (January 3, 1984). "Sugar Bowl: Auburn boots U-M". Detroit Free Press.
(October 30, 1983). "FLORIDA IS BEATEN BY AUBURN, 28-21". [[The New York Times]].
Gainesville Sun. 1983 Nov 13. Retrieved 2018-Nov-12.
(December 4, 1983). "AUBURN SETS BACK ALABAMA BY 23-20". [[The New York Times]].
(January 2, 1984). "TIGERS SET BACK MICHIGAN BY 9-7". [[The New York Times]].

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