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2000 Auburn Tigers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	2000
team	Auburn Tigers
sport	football
image	Auburn Tigers logo.svg
image_size	125
conference	Southeastern Conference
division	Western Division
short_conf	SEC
CoachRank	20
APRank	18
record	9–4
conf_record	6–2
head_coach	Tommy Tuberville
hc_year	2nd
off_coach	Noel Mazzone
oc_year	2nd
def_coach	John Lovett
dc_year	2nd
stadium	Jordan–Hare Stadium
champion	SEC Western Division champion
conf_champ	[SEC Championship Game](2000-sec-championship-game)
conf_champ_result	L 6–28 vs. [Florida](2000-florida-gators-football-team)
bowl	[Florida Citrus Bowl](2001-florida-citrus-bowl)
bowl_result	L 28–31 vs. [Michigan](2000-michigan-wolverines-football-team)

The 2000 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Tommy Tuberville, Tigers team compiled an overall record of 9–4 with a mark of 6–2 in conference play, winning the SEC's Western Division title. Auburn advanced to the SEC Championship Game, losing to Florida Citrus Bowl. The Tigers were then invited to the Florida Citrus Bowl, where they lost to Michigan. The team played home games at Jordan–Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama.

Tuberville led the Tigers to their first winning season since 1997, their second SEC Championship Game appearance, and a New Year's Day appearance in the Florida Citrus Bowl, which marked the Tigers return to a bowl game for the first time in three years. Auburn shut out rival Alabama, 9–0, on November 18 in the first Iron Bowl game played in Tuscaloosa since 1901. The Tigers finished the season ranked No. 18 in the AP poll and No. 20 in the Coaches Poll.

Schedule

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Rankings

Game summaries

Alabama

Roster

DC John Lovett

References

"2000 College Football Polls".
(September 1, 2000). "Rudimentary, JUCO transfer grounds Tigers' running joke to a halt". Birmingham Post-Herald.
(September 10, 2000). "Ground game passes test". The Anniston Star.
(September 17, 2000). "Auburn pounds LSU". The Opelika-Auburn News.
(September 24, 2000). "Tiger romp; Auburn makes it look easy with 31–14 win over Northern Illinois". The Dothan Eagle.
(October 1, 2000). "Auburn hands Vandy reality check". The Tennessean.
(October 8, 2000). "Tigers' unbeaten streak is no more". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
(October 15, 2000). "Grossman passes for 5 TDs as Gators rip Auburn 38–7". The Courier-Journal.
(October 22, 2000). "Johnson, Tigers grind out win". The Montgomery Advertiser.
(October 29, 2000). "Auburn survives Hogs, gut check". The Montgomery Advertiser.
(November 12, 2000). "Auburn nips Georgia with Leard's TD in overtime". The Courier-Journal.
(November 19, 2000). "Hot'lanta, here comes Auburn". The Selma Times-Journal.
(December 3, 2000). "Gators carry on; Florida cruises to SEC title, Sugar Bowl bid". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
(January 2, 2001). "Happy Blue Year". Detroit Free Press.
"2000 Auburn Tigers Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC.
. ["2000 NCAA Football Statistics (Auburn)"](https://stats.ncaa.org/teams/218288). *[[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]*.
(November 18, 2000). "Auburn vs. Alabama". [[USA Today]].

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